So, I’m back from Wiscon 37! What is Wiscon? It’s the World’s Leading Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, for one thing. It’s also the place where writers and scholars and SF/F fans get to talk about ideas and books that they love. Every time I go to Wiscon, I come home with a huge list […]
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Stories, Steampunk and Surreal
For a long time, I’ve been meaning to read Karen Russell’s short story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. But somehow, every time I reached for it, a novel of some sort got in my way. I love short fiction, but it seems I have to be in a certain mood to […]
A Blizzard in May
So, this happened on May Day. Snow, glorious snow. Since we’re still running a drought deficit here in Colorado, every flake is very welcome. The birds are a bit frantic, though, and my pastel tulips are pounding on the door, screaming to be let in. Dulcinea loves the snow, but she’s also enjoying the succulents […]