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bscreview.com - 11/4/2009
A Stalker’s Notebook: Gender, Minorities, and International SF
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One of the stereotypes of the genre is that fantasy and science fiction is escapist. And yet, in the past year alone, we've had fevered discussions such as Race Fail, forced a publisher to alter one of their book covers, and witnessed the birth of a new organization, Outer Alliance, which ...

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Bibliophile Stalker:  November 5, 2009 Links and Plugs

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November 5, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — When it rains, it pours: continuing the Apex Book of World SF interviews, the latest one is with Jetse de Vries. My BSC Review essay is up, Gender, Minorities, and International SF. And there's my guest post over at Jeff VanderMeer's blog, A Pre-Summation of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009. And Golden Gryphon Press (an excellent publisher) currently has a two-for-one sale. Also should have plugged this sooner. Odyssey 2009 graduate Lisa Poh is looking for other Singaporean writers. Anyone want to help her out? Interviews ...

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