Rocket Fuel Quotes

“I’m not referencing the Bechdel Test here;”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“1. Have enough women in the story that they can talk to each other. The lack of women talking to each other is the most frequent criticism I have of writers writing women (especially male writers). Pay attention to the fact that women DO talk to each other. Create opportunity for women characters to talk to each other. Check to see if you-as-writer are missing chances to have women talk to and interact with each other. It’s all well and good to remind writers that they can in fact have more than one female character in their story. But I often notice stories with more than one woman character in which the female characters exist in isolation from each other. That is, each woman or girl exists in a different sphere—a different sub-plot or specific plot-setting—which results in each being the only woman or girl within her sub-plot, which results in the individual women only ever (or mostly) interacting with men. It’s not that those characters have to come into contact with each other, and it may not be possible or desirable for those individuals to do so within the narrative, only that it is possible to think about who else they could interact with. Women and girls talk to other women and girls A LOT.”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“Beatrix Potter was hardcore. She was a botanical illustrator and she started doing children’s books after nobody would take a woman seriously as a scientific authority on mushroom taxonomy.”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“Catherynne M. Valente’s Fairyland series.”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“It’s possible to argue that one of the reasons LOTR had the wide appeal it did in the Sixties was because the readers knew that for the first time humanity actually did have the ability to destroy the real world.”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“Hope Mirrlees’ Lud-in-the-Mist (1926)”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“Sowing History: A Gardener’s Tale By Ursula Vernon”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“Kevin Hearne is a bad man, and you should read his books.)”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“raw power in our hands and feet. Afrofuturism opens the door to N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy. It opens the door to Tomi Adeyemi’s upcoming Children of Blood and Bone.”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“The fiction in every issue of Omenana Magazine, edited by writer Chinelo Onwualu, contemplates what the future looks like for Africans, and it seems as though the latest direction of the literary discipline bends back towards the continent.”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“Lesley Nneka Arimah’s remarkable and brilliant short story collection, What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky,”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“all the trappings of full humanity—should appear at least as broadly and profoundly among speakers of low-prestige dialects as among those speaking high. And for fuck’s sake, don’t write stories designed for readers to smugly identify with the characters using high-prestige dialects.”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“Sorcerer of the Wildeeps.”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“The Raven Boys is the first of the novels that make up the quartet of The Raven Cycle, with the final book released in April, 2016.”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“First published in 2013 and reprinted in 2015’s Stories for Chip, “«Légendaire.»”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“«Légendaire.»” by Kai Ashante Wilson”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“McHugh masterfully handles the issues of language, sexuality, and identity. For a primer on doing this sort of thing well, refer to China Mountain Zhang.”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“The Peril of Being Disbelieved: Horror and the Intuition of Women By Emily Asher-Perrin”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction

“there was something so appealing to me about Tiffany’s pragmatism. She reminds me of Suzette Haden Elgin’s character, Responsible of Brightwater”
― Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction