Why aren’t there more women in the SFF section?
Why aren’t more there more women in the SFF section?
Why aren’t there more women in the SFF section? Read More »
Why aren’t more there more women in the SFF section?
Why aren’t there more women in the SFF section? Read More »
Dan Koboldt is joining us today to talk about his novel The Rogue Retrieval. Here’s the publisher’s description: Stage magician Quinn Bradley dedicated his life to a single purpose: headlining for a major casino on the Las Vegas strip. But just before his dreams come true, two modern mercenaries show up to make him a puzzling
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Marie Brennan is joining us today with her novel Chains and Memory. Here’s the publisher’s description: Manifestation was only the beginning. The Otherworld has returned — bringing with it the sidhe, the source of humanity’s psychic powers. Some mortals welcome these creatures of legend, some fear them . . . and no one is ready for
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Megan E. O’Keefe is joining us today with her novel Steal the Sky. Here’s the publisher’s description: Detan Honding, a wanted conman of noble birth and ignoble tongue, has found himself in the oasis city of Aransa. He and his trusted companion Tibs may have pulled off one too many cons against the city’s elite and
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Eric James Stone is joining us today with his novel Unforgettable. Here’s the publisher’s description: Out of sight, out of mind. In the near future, a fluke of quantum mechanics renders Nat Morgan utterly forgettable. No one can remember he exists for more than a minute after he’s gone. It’s a useful ability for his career
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Marieke Nijkamp is joining us today with her novel This Is Where It Ends. Here’s the publisher’s description: 10:00 a.m. The principal of Opportunity, Alabama’s high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve. 10:02 a.m. The students get up to leave the auditorium
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When I offered to sponsor people who couldn’t afford supporting members for WorldCon, I also said that I would share as much as I could about who received these membership grants. With their permission, here are 83 entries from people who received a supporting membership. This isn’t all 100, because some people didn’t feel comfortable having
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Rob has a favorite hat, which is an Afghan shepherd’s hat called a pakol. He’s had several of these over the years, but the one he wears to the winery is the most comfortable. It is also, unfortunately, undyed wool and so over the years the sweat and wine stains made it somewhat…disreputable. This weekend
Weird uses of puppet making skills number 347 — dying a hat Read More »
I believe in cooking shrimp in bacon fat, & @maryrobinette believes in heavy cream, white wine & gouda in grits. — Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) January 2, 2016 So that I can remember what I did with the grits, because they were pretty magical, here is my best approximation of how I made them. We were
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Rob and I stayed in and had a quiet New Year’s Eve. When we got married, we wound up combining our various cultural traditions into an odd conglomeration of Hawaii and Tennessee. So on New Year’s Eve, we clean from the back of the house to the front, in order to sweep the bad luck
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Lawrence M. Schoen is joining us today with his novel Barsk: The Elephants’ graveyard. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Sixth Sense meets Planet of the Apes in a moving science fiction novel set so far in the future, humanity is gone and forgotten in Lawrence M. Schoen’s Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard An historian who speaks with
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Put together by puppeteers in three different cities, including Chicago, we’ve got this holiday video for you. Now you get to play a guessing game about which puppet is mine.
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Honestly, this is the best thing you will see while waiting for Star Wars. This is Raks Geek director Dawn Xiana Moon who is an amazing dancer. It’s a hilarious and fun performance, but… but you have to watch to the end when they cut back to the anchors. And seriously, if you are in Chicago,
Bellydancing Wookiee causes TV anchors to completely lose it. Live! Read More »
If you’ve seen me talking about Habitica, and thought that it sounded useful but intimidating… We just opened my private guild to the public. It’s called “Ink Slingers.” The description is: For science-fiction and fantasy writers and editors who are actively working in the field and trying to improve craft. But who also need peer pressure
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I’m reading a short story by a Pakistani author (“Grandma’s Tale” by Amtul Rahman Khatun) and have hit a sentence I need help with. I know all of the words, but I’m having trouble building a picture in my head. For context, the story was written in the early 1960s and she’s describing a wealthy
A Pakistani fashion question — reading story from the 1960s Read More »