Source: galaxyexpress

IT’S A WOMAN’S WORLD

Seriously, isn’t it about time women ruled the planet? I remember as a child wistfully thinking if women were in charge of everything, everything would be better. We’d be more compassionate, more globally responsible, more peaceful. Rainbows and kittens would proliferate in abundance and all would be well, right?

Now that I’m grown, one of the things I love about Science Fiction Romance is the open canvas it gives me to explore some of the crazy ideas I had as a child, including the question, “What if women were in charge?”

Would it be the rainbows and kittens of my dreams? The more I thought about it, the more it disturbed me that most of the portrayals of women dominant cultures in popular fiction in both print and visual media went one of two ways.

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Source: huffington post

WRITE IT AND THEY WILL COME

Most writers allow themselves fantasies, unless they’re truly in it for bloodsport. For the last twenty years I’ve tried to tame mine. Fourteen books completed (not fourteen good ones) and a few that almost went all the way didn’t make much fodder for fantasy. But ’tis true I’d catch myself dreaming of young writers raising their hands like kids at a birthday party eager for you to open their present, “Tell me about your process!” “What’s it feel like to have a Pulitzer?” ‘Tis true.

Last year I wrote an essay based on an unpublished memoir I’d written a few years prior. The essay was published in the New York Times and there began the ride of my life thus far.

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Source: io9

HUNGER GAMES BOOK TRAILER

The third in the series of Hunger Games, Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins is set for release this month and with comes this new book trailer.

Source: seattletimes

FRESH VOICES IN SCIENCE FICTION

The contest between small independent presses and huge media conglomerates could be won because the little guys are able to take big chances. In science fiction and fantasy, at least, they’re willing and eager to publish minorities and women, and wonderfully fresh debut novels like Karen Lord’s “Redemption in Indigo”.

Lord is a well-traveled native of Barbados with a University of Toronto science degree. Using a Senegalese folktale the way a composer uses a musical theme — as a basis for variation — she recounts the fantastical adventures of Paama, who escapes her unfortunate marriage only to be placed in unwitting charge of awesome universal powers.

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Are you excited for the third installment of the Hunger Games Trilogy? Do book trailers help in your decision to read a book?

What is your favorite type of science fiction?  Romance, espionage, apocalyptic…? Let’s discuss.