I would add C.L. Moore to this list. Her incorporation of emotions and relationships into the SF she wrote from the 1930s anticipated the New Wave of the 60s, and was far ahead of anything anyone else was doing until probably Murray Leinster in the 50s.
Originally shared by Lisa “LJ” Cohen
This is full of awesome! 10 women who defined and changed Science Fiction.
I would add C.L. Moore to this list. Her incorporation of emotions and relationships into the SF she wrote from the 1930s anticipated the New Wave of the 60s, and was far ahead of anything anyone else was doing until probably Murray Leinster in the 50s.
Originally shared by Lisa “LJ” Cohen
This is full of awesome! 10 women who defined and changed Science Fiction.
tl;dr: write good books that will continue to sell for a long time, and be known to one and all as a guy* who is generally just around.
*generically speaking
Originally shared by Rachel Aaron
Writing Wednesday: The Long Tail — What Happens When Nothing Happens?
Hey guys, I’m sick as a dog today, so I’m turning the blog over to my incredible husband and business partner Travis Bach (aka, the one who actually does all the non-writing work in this house). As always, he came through in spades and wrote an incredible p…
Via The Mary Sue
Chance of a flat-earth conspiracy lasting this long: zero.
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-equation-large-scale-conspiracies-quickly-reveal.html
“Fought and Eisenhauer’s research reminds us that it’s not just how the princesses are portrayed. It’s also important to consider the kinds of worlds these princesses inhabit, who rules these worlds, who has the power — and even who gets to open their mouths. In a large number of cases, the princesses are outspoken by men in their own movies.”
This is largely because, as the article points out, when it comes time to add a minor character with a couple of lines, the default is to make that character male.
Originally shared by Laura Gibbs
You could subtitle my Myth-Folklore class “There’s More to the World than Disney.” Every semester there are quite a few students who connect with the readings for class exactly insofar as they know them from Disney movies (and that includes non-princess movies like Robin Hood and King Arthur and Alice in Wonderland… but the princesses dominate).
quote That’s fine, but are these movies really so great for little girls to watch? When you start to look at this stuff, you have to question that a little bit.
A little bit? Uh…
We SF writers often write about new technologies that work the way they’re supposed to. That leads to interesting stories – but what about the familiar reality of technology that doesn’t quite work right?
Originally shared by Eduardo Suastegui
The Neurologist Who #Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His #Mind #neuroscience
“Neurologist Phil Kennedy set out to build the ultimate brain-computer interface. In the process he almost lost his mind…”
Lindsay Buroker is one of those indie authors who make a steady living writing midlist books. Is there a “secret formula”? Well, not as such.
Write competently, publish consistently, build an audience, keep new readers coming in, and try things out until one of them clicks.
Modular electronics. Something that Sparx, the electromancer from my Auckland Allies series, would definitely be into.
Originally shared by Laston Kirkland
“Last year, says Elmieh, he and his team took apart 600 products released since 2012 and found that 80 percent of them could be built from just 15 common electronic components.”
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/nascent-objects-an-ambitious-plan-to-stop-us-from-wasting-our-gadgets
Orson Scott Card’s book on Characters and Viewpoint is well worthwhile even for the intermediate writer, though it would also be great for a beginner if you worked through it slowly.
He takes care throughout to relate the techniques to their effect on the reader, and explains them clearly and well, with plenty of examples.
Here’s your flying car. Of course, it’s self-driving as well.
Originally shared by Eduardo Suastegui
The FAA will definitely require you register this #drone… Which might also appear in one of my upcoming stories…
http://nerdist.com/drones-for-people-to-ride-in-ehang-184-ces-2016/