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June 4, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Mary Rosenblum. Jeremiah Tolbert interviews Greg van Eekhout. Jay Tomio interviews Paul S. Kemp. Neth Space interviews Mark Chadbourn. Eileen Gunn interviews Nisi Shawl. John Picacio interviews Dave Nalle. Selena Chambers interviews Catherynne M. Valente. BSC interviews Claude Lalumière and David Nickle. Advice/Articles SF Signal on Why is Genre Fiction Bleak and What Can Be Done About It? Louis Menand on Show or Tell: ...

Evil Monkey and People for the Ethical Treatment of SF (PETSF)
Ecstatic Days — ... . It was more interesting at SFFE before somebody I think called Andy Remic deleted his post about mofos. There’s mofos out there. [scroll down to Andy Remic. kthanxbai.] ...

Positive
Asking the Wrong Questions — ... is a new group blog founded by author Andy Remic with the aim, up until yesterday, of "celebrating all that is positive in genre fiction." If that sounds rather vague to you, you're not alone--the good folks at SF Signal invited Remic and his cohorts to a Mind Meld about their new venture, but were so unclear about its purpose that they mistakenly assumed that the blog had arisen as a response to "an imbalance towards a negative futuristic outlook" in the genre. Responses to the Mind Meld make it clear that even SFFE's contributors aren't entirely clear what the new blog ...

Suspicious MFs in Martian SF
Marooned: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books on Mars — ... ’s real world theory that some unnamed“motherfuckers" are "systematically ruining the SFFH genres” (see the post and comment section on the blog SF Signal ), I utilized the invaluable ...

A question of ethics, negative/positive reviews, and Mark Charan Newton's Nights of Villjamur
OF Blog of the Fallen — ... just what in the hell is this blog about and whether or not "ethics" is the right word for this desire for "positive reviews?" Are those inquirers "motherfuckers," as one of the SFFE bloggers, Andy Remic, claimed (in a rather strange and poor choice of words, I might add) in a recent SF Signal Mind Meld? ...

Ethics and Enthusiasm
Notes From The Geek Show — ... it. It doesn’t impinge on my own basic tendencies, which is to focus largely on the works that really get under my skin, positively or negatively (e.g. Morgan’s The Steel Remains and Battlestar Galactica respectively). To each their own. Except in so far as that misapplied term, “ethics” sits as a loaded gun tossed onto the table of discourse. “Our agenda is born of ethics,” it seems to say. Which many, of course, will hear as, “Yours is not.” Unfortunately, then came the SF Signal Mind Meld that misunderstood this agenda of enthusiasm, conflated it with the “optimistic SF” ...

The D word
Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games — Psst. Wanna hear a dirty word? No, not that word. I've got one that's even dirtier. One that sends seasoned industry veterans running. You ready for it? Dystopian. Because our futures have become too bleak! Too pessimistic! And way too dark. And it's getting kinda depressing . . . there was some soul-searching on the topic over at SF Signal's Mindmeld last week, but the call to Think Positive really got underway last fall, with the announcement of an ...

On Reviewing, Round 63
Torque Control — ... , which, as this Mind Meld at SF Signal explores, initially had a slightly confused remit. Quoth Andy Remic: “I chose the name “Ethics” not because I wanted to explore the ethical contexts of novels or films, but because I wanted to make an ethical stand against the motherfuckers who, to my mind, are systematically ruining the SFFH genres”. ...

Interesting comment from Richard Morgan
OF Blog of the Fallen — ... Buried within the brouhaha of the past week surrounding the Science Fiction and Fantasy Ethics definition squabble on SF Signal and elsewhere (including here), Richard Morgan raises an interesting point that I think might provide grist for the mill: ...

Enthusiasm & Ethics & Endless Emoting
The Crotchety Old Fan — ... Next, SFSignal conducted one of their Mind Melds on the subject (Q: Why do you think there is an imbalance towards a negative futuristic outlook? How did we get here and how has this affected the genre? Can you give some examples of positive/upbeat ideas in your genre?)- which spewed (unintentional) negativism all about the blogosphere; the promulgators of the manifesto/site were not clear in their declarations  and we all took a trip down the rabbit hole:  some thought that it was a new genre being established, some thought it an attack on that branch of established SF ...