Mary Anne Mohanraj Gets You Up to Speed, Part II

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whatever.scalzi.com - 3/13/2009

Mary Anne Mohanraj Gets You Up to Speed, Part II

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In her last guest entry, Mary Anne Mohanraj introduced herself and began speaking about race and science fiction and fantasy, concentrating specifically on points useful to everyone. Today, she’s talking on points useful to writers. —— MARY ANNE MOHANRAJ: Part II: For ...

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Mary Anne Mohanraj Gets You Up to Speed, Part I

— whatever.scalzi.com — You may recall that rather recently I said “we should be talking about things that are hard... to talk about, and race (and the role it plays in sf/f) is one of those things.” And since I said it, it’d be nice if I followed up on that. ... (more) Mary Anne Mohanraj Gets You Up to Speed, Part I

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Race and Culture and Writing and Stuff
The Mumpsimus — ... Here's part two. Follow Mary Ann's links if you're curious, but be sure to read her posts. They are extraordinarily lucid and thoughtful and reader-friendly meditations on what it means to write and read in a multicultural society. There's tons of discussion in the comments, too. ...

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Bibliophile Stalker — ... interviews Peter S. Beagle. Alethea Kontis interviews J.F. Lewis. Critical Hits interviews Monte Cook. Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast interviews Dave McKean. BBC interviews Bruce Sterling. Publishers Weekly interviews Tom Lloyd. Bookspot Central interviews Peter Brett. Advice/Articles Mary Anne Mohanraj Gets You Up to Speed (1, 2). Jeff Vandermeer on Finch in 24 Hours and Finch Finished: Killing Deadlines ...

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Bibliophile Stalker — ... I owe this essay to Mary Anne Mohanraj's recent entry at John Scalzi's blog, the reason for which I'll explain in the next paragraph. The elephant in the room, which I must tackle in this first paragraph, is ...

Science Fiction, Race and Fandom
Biology in Science Fiction — ... than the mundane masses who aren't science fiction readers. And that leads to denial of any problems with racism or sexism, since they can insist that the SF future is "race blind" or that it "transcends" race2, which ignores that the default color of SF characters is white. I've even seen the argument that hard science fiction is about science (Science!), so the characters don't matter, which I find to be a silly argument. If SF was only about the science it would be indistinguishable from a textbook; it's that fiction part, the characters and their ...

A Conversation with John Scalzi
Tor.com — ... I’m new to all this, so I’ll certainly hear from folks if I pulled it off or not. This goes back to one of the essays on my site. Mary Anne Mohanraj said if you feel like doing it, do it. You’ll probably get it wrong and we’ll probably tell you you’re wrong and that’s cool. ...