A few weeks ago I attended ReCONvene 2020. It was a one day virtual science fiction / fantasy (SF/F) convention, and my attendance showed just how much things have changed for me in the last…
Dystopian novels and movies have been popular for years. We read or watch with morbid fascination how people survive after the worst has happened. Sometimes that ‘worst’ is a single well-defined event: a climate catastrophe,…
I recently saw this post on Twitter: The fact that it was an English teacher who said this is especially troubling, but I’m not surprised by the sentiment itself. A lot of people don’t see…