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It’s been a while, but I’m back again with links: links that are important, links that made me think, links that made me smile.
Firstly, and most importantly, the fundraiser for Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is running until 9th November. Please support this if you can. Rochita is a wonderful person, and she and her family are going through a very difficult time.
The rest of my links are going to be grouped under headings, as it’s been some time since I made a post of this nature.
Reading, writing, history, community
Submissions are now open for the People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction anthology.
This is an unbelievably powerful essay on the Salem witch trials. The line that stood out to me was this one:
But what rings most dangerously prophetic about Salem is the ideology that suggests imagining the most helpless and vulnerable in our communities as the most powerful, in a kind of 1984-esque doublethink that provides a rationale for causing as much harm as one wishes to that group.
Aliette de Bodard on ‘History, Erasure and the Stories that Need to be Told’.
Annalee Flower Horne and Natalie Luhrs on the continued relevance of How To Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ
Leila Rasheed on diversity in children’s publishing.
Fred Clark on ‘communities of misconception’, unchallenged default assumptions, and how to respond when your assumptions are challenged.
Isabel Yap on Filipino monsters.
Tolkien’s annotated map of Middle Earth has been found.
We have a title and a release date for Samantha Shannon’s new Bone Season book: The Song Rising will be published in November, 2016.
Books I want to read
Kate Elliott talks about her new epic fantasy novel, Black Wolves, as part of John Scalzi’s ‘The Big Idea’ series.
Poetry and Short Fiction
‘Reasons I checked out of the diversity discussion du jour’ by M Sereno (content note for colonialism, homophobia and racism).
‘Song of the Body Cartographer’ by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz.
‘Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers’ by Alyssa Wong.
Academia
Rebecca Merkelbach on outlaws, trolls and berserkers.
Libraries
A bit US-centric, but I loved this article on the changing of librarian stereotypes throughout history.
Australiana
No Award on imaginary Australia YA adaptations. (Caveat: I do not share their dislike of the Tomorrow series, although I can understand their perspective, and I also feel ambivalent about adaptations of stories that were/are meaningful to me. I still enjoyed the post.)
Humorous
‘A Day In The Life of a Brooding Romantic Hero’ at The Toast.
I hope you all have fabulous weekends.
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This week’s post goes from the sublime to the ridiculous (but mainly focuses on the sublime).
To start off, an absolutely fabulous roundtable on diversity. The participants are Aliette de Bodard, Zen Cho, M Sereno, Bogi Takács and JY Yang, moderated by Charles Tan.
Over at Ladybusiness, Renay has created a fabulous summer (or winter) reading recommendation list.
On a sadder note, Tanith Lee has died. Athena Andreadis has written a lovely tribute. Sophia McDougall shared an old anecdote about meeting Lee.
There are a lot of new updates at Where Ghostwords Dwell.
Sophia McDougall has posted an excerpt of Space Hostages, which will be published really soon.
You can enter a giveaway to win an ARC of House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard here.
I saw Mad Max: Fury Road this week and absolutely adored it. (If I had endless money and more time on my hands, I would have seen it at least five more times since Tuesday.) This essay by Tansy Rayner Roberts goes a long way towards explaining why.
I found this post by Kaye Wierzbicki over at The Toast very moving. (Content note: discussion of abortion.)
This is the last week of A Softer World and I am really not okay. This and this are probably my favourite recent comics of theirs.
Natalie Luhrs is reading what looks to be a terrible book for a good cause. I encourage everyone who has the ability to donate. I will be donating to an equivalent UK-based charity.
This post’s title comes from my favourite Eurovision song this year, which didn’t win. This did not bother me in the slightest.
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I was going to devote this week’s post to the Hugo Awards situation, but to be honest, I thought better of it. Why waste my energy on the emotionally draining behaviour of a bunch of immature, selfish, cruel, destructive people? I’d rather talk about people who build, create, nurture and share.
At Safe, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz talks about words, actions, and using power for good. It’s a post filled with hope and compassion. (Content note for discussion of abusive behaviour.)
Rochita’s post refers to this one by Laura Mixon, which comes with a similar content note.
I absolutely adore M Sereno’s poetry. Her latest, ‘The Eaters, published in Uncanny Magazine, is gorgeous. Amal El-Mohtar reads it aloud here.
BBC Radio 4 is doing a programme featuring extensive interviews with Ursula Le Guin, Ursula Le Guin at 85.
Short stories I read and enjoyed this week include ‘Monkey King, Faerie Queen’ by Zen Cho (published at Kaleidotrope) and ‘Ambergris, or the Sea-Sacrifice’ by Rhonda Eikamp (published at Lackington’s, illustrated by Likhain).
Over at SF Signal, authors pay tribute to Terry Pratchett and Leonard Nimoy.
Ken Liu discusses his new novel The Grace of Kings at SF Signal.
This round-up post at Ladybusiness has some fabulous short story recommendations.
It’s always disorienting for me to see real-life friends and former academic colleagues getting discussed in SF publications.
This is the most Cambridge story ever.
Please spend your weekends being lovely to each other.
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Today’s linkpost is a little early, and contains poetry, translation, and a literary treasure hunt of sorts.
This is a great interview of Zen Cho and Stephanie Feldman by Sofia Samatar.
Ted Hodgkinson interviewed Daniel Hahn and Fahmida Riaz about literary translation.
Samantha Shannon answers readers’ questions. (Beware Mime Order spoilers.)
The Book Smugglers announced their new slate of short stories, which should be great.
Zen Cho has set up a directory of Malaysian SFF writers and projects.
A new issue of Through the Gate is out. I particularly liked the poem ‘Juli’ by M Sereno, which I found heart-shattering and powerful.
I love the Where Ghostwords Dwell project. The site is dedicated to discarded text, forgotten words and the memory of dead manuscripts, and each entry embeds links hinting at its origin, or pointing the reader forwards towards further connections. It’s part Russian doll, part literary treasure hunt, and I love it.
I leave you with every argument about Buffy on the internet from 1998 to now. This is one blog post where you’re going to want to read every single comment, and it makes me ridiculously happy.
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