I've been feeling very down lately, and not much like pos...
I've been feeling very down lately, and not much like posting or reading much online, so I'm very behind on everything. (Sometimes I win, sometimes the depression wins; this week depression won. But I'm better now.)
But I got a little crap for posting this, so I thought I would post it again:
SF Reviews: Midnight... Racist? A Post on Del Rey's Changes to the Cover of Midnight Riot, with cover examples.
Ben Aaronovitch's debut urban fantasy Rivers of London, retitled Midnight Riot by Del Rey for its US release, has a mixed-race protagonist, with a white father and African mother. In recent years, there have been a number of embarrassing examples of major publishers in the US overtly placing white characters on the covers of books with non-white heroes, a relic of an attitude, perhaps, that black people don't care to read. It's asinine, and in some high profile cases, publishers have been duly shamed into correcting or rejacketing covers following a public outcry.
And the link to the post about it on Neth Space
I'll be happy to post about it again, too. Perhaps I could create a large signature file and include it on every post.
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I read Midnight Riot (aka Rivers of London) and am halfway through Moon Over Soho and really enjoyed them. They're fast-paced fantasy-mysteries, about Peter Grant, a young constable in London who is saved from being assigned to the group that does nothing but paperwork because he can see ghosts. He ends up apprenticed to a DCI who is the last official wizard in England. If you like fantasy, and especially if you watch all the series on Masterpiece Mystery with "Inspector" in the title, you should check it out.
But I got a little crap for posting this, so I thought I would post it again:
SF Reviews: Midnight... Racist? A Post on Del Rey's Changes to the Cover of Midnight Riot, with cover examples.
Ben Aaronovitch's debut urban fantasy Rivers of London, retitled Midnight Riot by Del Rey for its US release, has a mixed-race protagonist, with a white father and African mother. In recent years, there have been a number of embarrassing examples of major publishers in the US overtly placing white characters on the covers of books with non-white heroes, a relic of an attitude, perhaps, that black people don't care to read. It's asinine, and in some high profile cases, publishers have been duly shamed into correcting or rejacketing covers following a public outcry.
And the link to the post about it on Neth Space
I'll be happy to post about it again, too. Perhaps I could create a large signature file and include it on every post.
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I read Midnight Riot (aka Rivers of London) and am halfway through Moon Over Soho and really enjoyed them. They're fast-paced fantasy-mysteries, about Peter Grant, a young constable in London who is saved from being assigned to the group that does nothing but paperwork because he can see ghosts. He ends up apprenticed to a DCI who is the last official wizard in England. If you like fantasy, and especially if you watch all the series on Masterpiece Mystery with "Inspector" in the title, you should check it out.
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