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I'm a writer of science fiction and fantasy attempting to break into the publishing world. I'm currently studying literature at UC Santa Cruz and one of my hopes is to be able to extend my study to science fiction and fantasy literature and use what I learn

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Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Dystopian commonalities in science fiction: 2 of 4

...or why dystopian fiction is so common. We all know what the model dystopian novel is, since we had to read it in school. Some of us enjoyed it immensely; some of us hated it with a passion. In either case, we were presented with 1984 by George Orwell as the first true dystopian novel. Few of us probably questioned this, a...
Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Book reviews: The Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction: 1 of 1

Edited by Dave A. Law and Darin Park (sorry, the name of the book was too big to include the editors into the title). I received this book from EDGE/Tesseract, which is also in league with Dragon Moon Press, who happened to be the publisher of this particular book. On a side not to this, they also have a couple volumes of a ...
Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine reviews: Neo-Opsis Issue #12: 1 of 1

Neo-Opsis was one of the magazines that I purchased a single copy of several weeks ago as part of my move to find magazines worth subscribing to. Part of the reason is I that I need to keep up with the short story market for my own writing and because I feel rather detached from the market anyway, having not read any 'new' s...
Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Book reviews: Bright of the Sky, by Kay Kenyon: 1 of 1

I remember exactly what prompted me to pick up this book when I saw it in the store: the cover. I'm rather partial to covers, especially covers that really reflect the genre of the book. In this case you can see that this is a weird cross between SF and F, and that very much reflects what takes place in the book. Mankind tra...
Arts & Humanities > British Authors Should Harry Potter author, JK Rowling, have announced that the character Albus Dumbledore was gay?: 16 of 21

Let's face it. Literature is in need of more homosexual characters to act as positive role models to dispense with the otherwise bigoted and ignorant discrimination against the entire gay community, something which Martin Luther King, Jr. himself would do a comedic double-take over. There are plenty of gay characters out the...
Arts & Humanities > Literature (Other) Should books have ratings like movies to warn parents about inappropriate content?: 52 of 65

First and foremost, the day that we censor literature in any fashion is the day we literally destroy wester culture by being completely hypocritical and ignorant. Would the proponents of putting warning labels on books also be willing to put a rated R sticker on the Holy Bible? Incest, murder, genocide, and all manner of vio...