Already grabbed mine. It should be available in all ebook stores.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Aug 20, 2015 1:33:19 pm PDT #23495 of 28326
brillig
chrismg - Aug 23, 2015 3:25:26 pm PDT #23496 of 28326
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
So have people seen the Hugo outcomes yet? I'm calling this a win for the good guys, although I do feel sorry for Ursula Vernon and the other people in her position.
Steph L. - Aug 23, 2015 3:56:59 pm PDT #23497 of 28326
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I just read the Wired article about the Hugos: [link] and it sounds like it turned out as well as it could have.
sumi - Aug 23, 2015 4:10:31 pm PDT #23498 of 28326
Art Crawl!!!
Just read The Fifth Season, I.e., the new Jemisin and it is excellent. Want next book NOW.
erikaj - Aug 23, 2015 5:14:42 pm PDT #23499 of 28326
Always Anti-fascist!
From the Wired article: Dude that claims qualifying for "tribal membership" is some badge of diversity. I am, like, 1/16 Muscogee Indian(Creek) because my grandfather was half. I know very little about the culture at all(Grandpa had some *heavy* identity issues) but because the tribe has kind of a "one drop" rule, my blond, blue-eyed brother has a tribal card.He mostly uses it to get campaign literature and vote in tribal elections,but I think I would beat the snot out of him if he said that just having it gave him insights into diversity, even if we do have proof that great-grandma was on the trail of tears. But then again, what can you expect from a grown man who proudly calls himself a "rabid puppy"...what a fucknut. Some tribes (Hopis, for instance) are *totally* strict about whom they let in, but I kind of doubt that anyone with Hopi blood would be all "all this damn diversity, messing up our quality!1"
erikaj - Aug 23, 2015 5:16:16 pm PDT #23500 of 28326
Always Anti-fascist!
Although, like I said, being mixed did kind of fuck my grandfather up so I guess it could happen.
DavidS - Aug 23, 2015 7:15:30 pm PDT #23501 of 28326
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I just read the Wired article about the Hugos: [link], and it sounds like it turned out as well as it could have.
Would have been better if the writer had any sense of Science Fiction history. Like how they scrambled back to add in Octavia Butler and Connie Willis and Ursula K. LeGuin. No mention of Chip Delaney or James Tiptree, or Joanna Russ or....etc. You'd think that science fiction had gone directly from the Campbell 50s to this year as an undifferentiated slab of Square Jawed White Guy Engineer Stories, without any knowledge of the New World/Dangerous Visions era, or Cyberpunk (with Alec Effinger, Pat Cadigan...).
WindSparrow - Aug 23, 2015 7:51:00 pm PDT #23502 of 28326
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Not related to the puppy probem, erika, I'm 1/16th Creek, too. But no Trail of Tears for my branch of the family - my ancestors stayed in Florida, hiding out, blending in, or purposefully forgotten.
Gris - Aug 24, 2015 3:20:19 am PDT #23503 of 28326
Hey. New board.
I think I know this guy. [link]
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 24, 2015 6:47:42 am PDT #23504 of 28326
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I feel like the Wired writer needs to be given the A Clockwork Orange treatment with that scene in The Jane Austen Book Club where Hugh Dancy is informing Maria Bello about all the great SF writers who were women.