Kelly McCullough's Blog, page 76

Superheroes and the Law

Courtesy Naomi: The Multiverse and the Law. Honestly, I find the law bits a bit boring, but it's kind of fun to look at the questions they ask.

Happy Yule

The long darkness ends, here comes the sun! (Carefully guarded by cat.)

Where is the Field Going?

Above is the question of the day. It used to be that you could come up with broad and not entirely correct descriptions of sf decade by decade.

The 1940s was the Golden Age of John Campbell and Astounding.

The 1950s was Fantasy and Science Fiction and Galaxy -- the quirky, gritty stories by people like Cyril Kornbluth, William Tenn and so on. Post WWII, McCarthy Era fiction.

The 1960s was the New Wave.

The 1970s was women and feminism.

The 1980s was Cyberpunk.

After that, I don't know. I can't characterize the 1990s. The new space opera, maybe?

And what about the most recent decade, the Naughts? Are there any new schools of writing? Any new trends?

The most interesting thing I have noticed is the appearance of increasing numbers of non-white writers and writers from non-European backgrounds.

NASA Photo of the Day

What's lighting up the Cigar Galaxy? M82, as this irregular galaxy is also known, was stirred up by a recent pass near large spiral galaxy M81. This doesn't fully explain the source of the red-glowing outwardly expanding gas, however. Recent evidence indicates that this gas is being driven out by the combined emerging particle winds of many stars, together creating a galactic superwind.. The above photographic mosaic highlights a specific color of red light strongly emitted by ionized hydrogen gas, showing detailed filaments of this gas. The filaments extend for over 10,000 light years. The 12-million light-year distant Cigar Galaxy is the brightest galaxy in the sky in infrared light, and can be seen in visible light with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Great Bear (Ursa Major).

Friday Cat Blogging

Watch this dive I duz double backflip



Do I look like I care?



My cuteness is beyond awesome



I prefer to think of myself as stately…

Lookie, Lookie!

Hey, look who's over at Jim C. Hines' "First Book Friday." (Hint: it's not me.)

Genre Overload?

Here's a call for submission for a Steampunk Shakespeare anthology. Thoughts?

2010 Favs!

SF Signal asked me and a bunch of others what their favorite movies/books/TV for 2010 were. Check out the answers: Mind Meld: BEST of 2010

Photos of the Storm

Patrick decided we needed to go out and photograph the storm yesterday. So we did, wading through three foot drifts of snow. I fell down twice. No big deal, since falling into a snow drift is like falling into pillows.

It was a very satisfactory blizzard. Today is bright and clear. The east-west streets are being plowed. Tomorrow will be north-south, and the Cities will be back in operation.

I think the next time I need an author's pic, the one immediately above will be it.

Friday Cat Blogging + Bonus Invisible Dogs

Rotating counts as moving, doesn't it?



Still life with Kleenex



I can to hold my ligu-liq-booze!




Me too! Zzzzzzzzz



Invisible dogs aren't doin' nothin'. Honest.