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Doom is a lot like Lord of the Rings, which is a lot like Superman. You don’t have to admit you loved Doom. In fact, you can pretend you never even heard of this videogame about a floating gun that shoots as many demons as the player can find. It was so popular that the […]
A few weeks ago, I experienced my first true injury caused by swordplay. We’re not counting the various bumps, bruises, and banged-up fingers that come from regular training—those occur so frequently as to become a non-event. Here, I took a hard thrust to the chest that sent me to the ground, the wind knocked out […]
Let’s just say this upfront: Accessibility at SF/F events has vastly improved in the last ten years. Even better, open conversations around disability and accommodations are becoming standard and normalized. Making the world fully accessible is hard work. Accessibility can sometimes be resource intensive and complex. Sometimes there can be contradictory needs (example: there’s an […]
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The Hugos are hugely important for me personally. I have been aware of them since I was a teenager, back in the 1980s. I have been following them closely since the start of this century. I went to my first Worldcon in 2005, in Glasgow, where David Langford won his eighteenth award for Best Fan […]
In science, fantasy, and horror, there is an increasing number of works that explore the idea of a home and what that might encompass, how it has changed over time, and how it has become something not always comforting and safe nor desirable but one that has been manipulated and twisted. The concept of a […]
One of the big publishing questions of 2024 has been What Is Romantasy? It’s a hot new marketing tag, thanks to TikTok and a rising excitement about books featuring swords and kissing. “Romantasy” sells books, and we do love a magical word that sells books. But with a magical word that sells books comes great […]
Let me start by admitting that I did not watch season one of Them. Entitled Them: Covenant, it was a source of much controversy among critics and viewers. Many felt the series relied too heavily on racial trauma for its scares and that the show was exploitative of Black pain and suffering. This is connected […]
Childhood memories are funny things. For some people they are clear, crystalised moments, which they come back to; others have blocked most of them out while they try to sift through the trauma. There is no definite pattern for how we remember things or why we remember them either, but they are part of us, […]
Every year or so an article gets published in a mainstream magazine with some variant on “this hitherto unexplored phenomenon of Fan Fiction”—always two words, always capitalized—which covers the exact same ground, and has no idea that in its profound redundancy it itself is technically a kind of transformative work. Because these articles all follow […]
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