The New Weird was the last whites-only literary movement in science fiction.

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The Laundry Files: travels and kin

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Coed Demon Sluts is obviously a Big Idea.

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Darko Suvin said that sf is “cognitive estrangement.” Robert Anton Wilson said it’s “straight-faced bullshit.” I’m sure there are subtle differences between the two definitions, but that’s not important now; it’s a tension between opposites. SF that emphasizes the straight-faced part has traditionally been called “hard” sf, but that term has become entangled in controversy. So how about plausible science fiction?

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Thomas Pynchon seen (or not) from Brazil. Time to confess that I think of Against the Day as something I slogged through and lived to tell about, and I haven’t tried The Bleeding Edge for fear that it’s his Golem100.

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Why is genre fiction obsessed with Belisarius?

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Babel-17 put a space opera, a meditation on language and communication, alternate sex/love arrangements, and a fascinating protagonist into under 200 pages.

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Tor.com gives away A Fire upon the Deep, and Jo Walton tells us why it’s so great.

sartorias looks at Tremontaine

Why Ada Palmer writes like that

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