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Festival Season
It’s that time of year when the festivals come thick and fast. Over the next couple of months I will be taking part in a number of SE London events, so I thought I’d just mention them, in case you felt like coming along. Hither Green Festival I will be talking, with Katy Darby (fellow…
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Additional panel at LonCon3
I’ve been asked to step in last-minute to moderate another panel at LonCon3 Reimagining Families (Thursday 11:00) In a 2013 column for Tor.com, Alex Dally MacFarlane called for a greater diversity in the way SF and fantasy represent families, pointing out that in the real world, “People of all sexualities and genders join together in…
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LonCon 3 – Suggestions?
So I’m on a couple of panels for LonCon 3, and I need to do some homework so that I’m properly on the ball. Suggested (re)reading (and viewing I suppose) please, from all you SF fans out there. First one: WE CAN REBUILD YOU. SF medicine regularly comes up with “cures” for disabled bodies —…
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The Woman Who Loved the Moon and other stories
For LGBT History Month, here’s an edited version of the review I wrote for Short Review of the fantasy/ scifi/ horror collection from 1981 by Elizabeth A. Lynn Lynn is one of the earliest fantasy writers to include same-sex relationships in her writing as a matter of course. Author of A Different Light, The Dancers…
Cherry Potts, Writer 