This interview with womanist novelist poet Kola Boof first ran on a site I had related to my Afro Mama book in 2004. Kola Boof is also a radical activist who speaks out against current slavery and the oppression of Black Africans by Arab Islamic factions in Sudan. Because of her condemnation of Islam and [...]
I thought this was interesting: Those of you who pitch science fiction to wives and girlfriends who do not enjoy it are probably saying something along the following lines: “Space ships! Alien monsters! Men in tights!” Instead, for women who find that sort of thing distasteful, talk about it as a fairy tale–only a fairy [...]
This interview/article on Charles Stross is too cool: “Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas, rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition,” he says. “I’m not entirely at ease with that self-description.” But [...]
Here are some cool definitions of science fiction by various sci-fi authors listed on Definitions of Science Fiction. Frederik Pohl The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders [...]
The Marching Morons is one of my favorite sci-fi stories of all time: “The Marching Morons” is a science fiction short story written by Cyril M. Kornbluth, originally published in Galaxy in April, 1951. It was included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two after being voted one of the best novellas up [...]
Eight rules for writing fiction: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass [...]
Doris Lessing has unquestionably been a prolific writer. During a career extending more than half a century, she’s published some 50 novels, short-story collections and memoirs, either under her own name or the pseudonym, Jane Somers. How much of that work is destined to endure is another matter and one sure to generate controversy over [...]
I love Octavia Butler. She is my all-time favorite sci-fi- writer. This is from an interview she did with Locus Magazine, 2000: “When I was in college, I began Kindred, and that was the first [novel] that I began, knowing what I wanted to do. The others, I was really too young to think about [...]
I was re-reading an old favorite sci-fi book of mine, The Man Who Folded Himself, when it occurred to me to look up the author, David Gerrold. I learned some interesting things about him, like he’s only 63, a few years older than my mom. I thought he’d be closer to my dad’s age, like [...]
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