[Update:  since a number of people are reaching my blog via this page, please see this addendum post , which includes an apology and other t...

(Trigger warning for anyone bother STD analogies...) SCENE:  In the minutes before Shaun's new editing website went live, an unsuspect...

As you may have heard, I changed my review guidelines so I could join my podcast, The Skiffy and Fanty Show , in its 2015 "Women and N...

By now, you'll have heard that Sony had opted to cancel the release of Seth Rogen and Ethan Goldberg's The Interview (2014)(starri...

If you have no idea what GamerGate is, the Wiki page gives a decent enough summary of the major events .  Additional details can be found at...

[Note:  statistics will vary considerably depending where you are in the world.  I'm using statistics and studies which are mostly relev...

You have probably already heard about the death of Robin Williams by (apparent) suicide.  Given the public nature of celebrity deaths, I ha...

I'm currently in Bristol after a long, exciting weekend at LonCon, resting up, seeing some touristy stuff, and generally dropping the we...

If you haven't seen Damien Walter's piece on diversity and vocal opposition to it in SF/F , you'll probably want to read it for ...

(Update regarding comments:  if you're here to leave a flippant comment about the issue in question, it is unlikely to get through.  Eit...

A few months back, Julia Rios and I recorded a whole bunch of interviews at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA)...

Imagine you have a bowl of cereal, and there are a bunch of other people with bowls of cereal, too.  Person A really likes Lucky Charms, whi...

This post began as a parody or a satire.  Whatever it began as, it was a scathing critique of someone else whose post I'm not going to l...

The other day, I posted about the SFWA Bulletin Petition thing .  I'm not going to rehash that debate here, though you're welcome to...

(Note:  I've listed links to other posts on this topic at the end.) I won't have anything extensive to say on this "anti-poli...

In a recent blog post, Alastair Reynolds took on what he perceives to be the instantaneous vitriol that peppers (or, perhaps, consumes) the...

(Note:  comments will be monitored on this post due to the nature of the debate surrounding this topic.  I hope I won't have to remove a...

I'm late to the party .  The first major SF/F controversy party.  And while this post won't be about Kemp's argument specif...

I am currently sitting in Houston's magnificent airport after leg two of my four-leg flight to Sacramento.  The things I do for family.....

WTF is wrong with you , SF/F community? I'll have another post in the near future. . . . . . . . . . . . . P.S.:  Thi...