Sacrificing Personal Safety for the Greater Good
Jim Hines gives himself back pain so that you don’t have to, by imitating the poses of urban fantasy covers and others. (Possibly NSFW??)
Two Scifi Points of Interest
Karl Schroeder points to the prologue of his upcoming book (Ashes of Candesce, the fifth book in the Virga series), while a BBC podcast looks at women-only societies in scifi.
The Artsy Household is Complete Once Again
Ursula K. Le Guin talks about that crucial member of any artsy household, a new cat!
Customer Support FTW
Videogame developer Ross Mills was concerned that a British educational toy store was selling Anakin Skywalker toys figures, given that Anakin had massacred a village of sand people, tried to kill his teacher and slaughtered a school of Jedi younglings. The Early Learning Centre responded with an excellent […]
Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition
At Wired, GeekDad takes a look at the impending launch of a fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons so soon after a fourth: “For the past few years, starting with the very announcement of 4E and the Virtual Tabletop debacle, Wizards has been very poor at communicating honestly […]
“Mary Sue, what are you?”
There’s an interesting exploration of the fan fiction term “Mary Sue” and it’s sexist connotations at Adventures of Comic Book Girl: “So the only time female can be default is when discussing a badly written character, someone who is more powerful or important or liked than they should […]
The Cultural Gutter 