I'll be out some today, so not sure how much I'll be arou...

I'll be out some today, so not sure how much I'll be around online. It's also Book Scan day, the day you find out exactly how much your book is not selling, which is going to be depressing.

I am going to be having a post up later today at SF Signal, a more coherent description of our NASA trip. I'll try to post when it goes live.


Links:


One about me! Steve Gould: What I'm reading: Martha Wells
She is a fantasy writer but there is something science fictional about her world building. Cloud Roads has this cool multi-race (and by race, I suppose I mean multi-species world ranging from variety of humanoids forms to bug-like hive creatures and primarily two races that shift from "groundling" to a flying form. All of these species are sentient and the cultural interactions are fascinating. (There are non-sentient species around, too.)



Book View Cafe: It Doesn't Have To Be the Way It Is by Ursula K. LeGuin
This is a good explanation of why kids (and adults) often get so much grief for reading (and writing) fantasy:
Subversion doesn't suit people who, feeling their adjustment to life has been successful, want things to go on just as they are, or people who need support from authority assuring them that things are as they have to be. Fantasy not only asks "What if things didn't go on just as they do?" but demonstrates what they might be like if they went otherwise — thus gnawing at the very foundation of the belief that things have to be the way they are.

So here imagination and fundamentalism come into conflict.

A fully created imaginary world is a mental construct similar in many respects to a religious or other cosmology. This similarity, if noticed, can be deeply disturbing to the orthodox mind.



Jody Hedlund: 6 Benefits of Having an Agent in Today's Publishing World

James Patrick Kelly is publishing a new ezine: Strangeways
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