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June 23, 2013
Publishing and Marketing 04: Women in SFF Part 2
About a week or so ago, I posted a list of some of my favourite female authors in SFF, past and present (that is, some of the women on the list are now sadly deceased). For the follow-up, I wanted to focus on some of my favorite female characters in SFF, irrespective of genre. Until […]
June 19, 2013
NANP: Cold Names
Today’s guest for Names: A New Perspective is one of my favourite authors of this year, Kate Elliott, who has penned several SFF series over the years, like Spiritwalker, Jaran, Crown of Stars and others. I’ve only read her first Spiritwalker novel, Cold Magic (my review), but I’ll be reading the sequel Cold Fire in […]
June 17, 2013
Doing Time With The Triptrees – Guest Post by Zachary Jernigan
It was only a few days ago that I hosted Zach on the blog for a guest post in which he talked about some of his issues with reading novels by the current big names of SFF (to be found here). It was a brilliant post that articulated some of my own feelings on the […]
June 14, 2013
Publishing and Marketing 03: Women in SFF Part 1
One question that is being asked by many in the wake of the recent SFWA controversy, and all the commentary it has spawned in various places about misogyny and sexism within the publishing industry is: “If I want to read more books by female authors, where do I start?” Often times, I think it is […]
June 13, 2013
NANP: Names As Traits
Today’s guest for Names: A New Perspective is Amy McCulloch, a 2013 debut with her first novel The Oathbreaker’s Shadow released just recently through Doubleday in Canada. Based on the buzz I’ve been seeing about the novel (here and here), I’ve put it on my reading list for this year. Have to say that I’m […]
June 10, 2013
Monthly Report: April and May 2013
And once again it appears that I have failed to get one of these (or two rather!) out on time. The first couple of weeks in May were pretty tight since I was both working on edits for the novella while also working on the prequel short story, so that never happened. And once again, […]
June 9, 2013
NANP: Names In Context
Another’s week here on Names: A New Perspective, and today’s guest is E. J. Swift, author of the post-apocalyptic Osiris, released by Night Shade Books last year. Osiris was quite a fun novel (my review), notable for the fact that it was set in a world where extreme climate changes have forced the survivors to […]
June 8, 2013
Code Geass Rewatch: Season 1 Ep 1-14
I first saw Code Geass in Fall 2008, courtesy of a friend who is an anime geek. I hadn’t really seen anime before, outside of a few episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 and Rurouni Kenshin. It was also a time that I really started to get into the whole anime craze, since a number […]
June 6, 2013
Justice League: Strange Union
Its absolutely no surprise that following the immense success of Marvel Studios’ various superhero movies, DC Entertainment and Warner Brothers have announced their own plans for movies based on DC’s famous characters. Over the last eight years we’ve seen Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, and Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern. There has been […]
June 4, 2013
NANP: Just Another Name
Today’s guest on Names: A New Perspective is Gini Koch, author of Alexander Outland: Space Pirate and the Alien series among others. I’ve had a copy of the former for almost a year now, which I’ve been meaning to read all this time but which keeps slipping through the net. The cover reminds me of […]
