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Friday Links is Late Today
Sorry! The big talking point on social media this week is Maureen Johnson’s piece in the Huffington Post about gendered book covers, along with a highly entertaining challenge to genderflip covers from...
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Friday Links is Dressed as Amelia Earhart
Probably the most important blog post I read in the last week is the update from the long-missed Hyperbole and a Half about her depression. As ever, she slices through the hard and complicated issues...
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Friday Links Contains Small Parts
Kirstyn McDermott’s collection Caution: Contains Small Parts is about to become the new volume in the critically acclaimed Twelve Planets series – it will be launching at Continuum in a couple of...
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Friday Links Was Not at Wiscon, Dispenses Anti-Writing Advice Instead
Not being at Wiscon is a constant state for me – though of course it becomes quite specifically sad on that weekend every year when other people ARE at Wiscon. I always enjoy reading the con reports,...
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Friday Links is Short and Sweet (this is a lie)
I was going to keep it short this week because I feel like I’ve spent the whole week doing nothing but curating links, and also because I have an Epic Post of Epicness coming up later tonight thanks to...
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Friday Links: This Week Fortnightly
I wasn’t here last week! So here are two weeks worth of links. Deep breath, we’re going in. The outrageous hoax (well, it has to be) that 90 missing episodes of Doctor Who have been found safe and well...
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Friday Links Is Depressed By Politics This Week
In the last week, I’ve found two new things to be obsessed with reading on the internet. Neither of them is actually NEW, but you know. The first is the exceptional Mansplained (Academic Men Explain...
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Friday Links is Sweeping Up
Most of the links that have caught my attention this week are follow ups in some way from the big issues of last week. For instance: Why I Stood With Wendy, and Julia Gillard: the most productive Prime...
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Friday Links is Saving Mr Banks
Much of the publishing talk this week (apart from the bit about James Frenkel leaving Tor) has been about this Tor.uk post about how publishers aren’t really the problem with gender inequity in SF/F –...
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Friday Links Rises From the Serpentine
The Shirley Jackson Awards were announced this week – congrats to all winners, but especially to Kaaron Warren who became the first Australian to win one of these for her novella “Sky” from her...
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Friday Links is the Human Experience
A great post at Bitch Magazine about gender and comics as discussed at last weekend’s ComicCon – including the brilliant quote that “female experience is the human experience.” Also, the all-female...
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Friday Links is Stream of Consciousness
The Guardian profiles one of the neglected female writers of “1914,” May Sinclair – an accomplished modernist author (as well as the critic who coined the literary use of the term stream of...
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Friday Links is Four Today
That’s a lie, of course. It’s not Friday Links that is four, but my littlest daughter! Her birthday loot included a Wonder Woman with invisible plane, two metric tonnes of Lego, and a set of Disney...
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Friday Links Congratulates the World Fantasy Award Nominees
I was delighted to read the interesting lists of works and people nominated for the World Fantasy Awards this year – including an unprecedented four Australians! I deeply regret not having noticed the...
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Friday Links is Not a Dirty Word
The last few days have been a mighty era of internet commentary about diversity, gender issues and other fun stuff in genre, much of it inspired positively or negatively by recent convention panels and...
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Friday Links Returns From the Dead
It’s been a long week. I’ve been besieged at home with feverish children (my own, not a random assortment) and didn’t realise quite how stir crazy I was until I got a chance to run away for 15 minutes...
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Friday Links is Returned to the Archives!
Okay, so other things happened this week, but for Doctor Who fans, the last 24 hours has been a special cocktail of anticipation and torturous waiting. Finally it was revealed that the recent rumours...
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Friday Links is a Fake Writer Girl
I appreciated very much being namechecked in Jim C Hines’ sarky “Fake Writer Girls” post. Meanwhile, Cheryl Morgan takes umbrage at the idea that grimdark is just for boys, and comes up with a...
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Daughter of Friday Links
My annual appearance at Tor.com. I write about how diversity of characters in YA can improve the genre – which frankly I thought was a bit of a cheat, preaching-to-the-converted sort of topic. Heh....
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Post-Christmas Links
The turkey has been dinnered, the Doctor Who Christmas Special and the Call the Midwife Special have competed for the title of Most Depressing Christmas Special that Isn’t Set in Albert Square, and the...
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