Cyberpunk and the Failed Vision of Virtual Reality
Cyberpunk is a genre that never quite made it in the mainstream. After its brief day in the sun in the 80s, it fell by the wayside and was eclipsed […]
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Nancy Drew
In 1905, pioneering child psychologist G. Stanley Hall made the following statement in response to the growing trend of girls reading the budding genre of kids’ adventure novels: The danger […]
The Nerd Canon
The new Wonder Woman trailer dropped this week, bringing us that much closer to the first movie out of this generation of superhero film to star a woman. Meanwhile, despite […]
The DATES 2 Kickstarter is live!
I’m delighted to announce that the Kickstarter campaign to fund Dates 2 is launching today! Dates is a fabulous historical fiction anthology of comics, art, and short stories featuring queer […]
Cover Reveal
At long last, I’m delighted to present the cover of AMONG THE RED STARS. The HarperTeen crew did such a beautiful job with this and I’m delighted with how the […]
Women in the Army: It’s No Alternate History
Today is the release day for Silver Stars, the sequel to Front Lines, Michael Grant’s alternate history where women served in World War II. I’ve already taken this series to […]
Causal Realism and Jared Leto’s Joker
Ever since those first stills of his character design, Jared Leto’s Joker has left many of us scratching our heads, trying to figure out why the portrayal seems so wrong. […]
Award Arithmetic
Many people in the YA community were less than enthused when the Locus Awards announced their 2016 finalists. The YA finalists were all men, one of whom was nominated twice, […]
Those Wacky Nazis
Our attitude toward Nazis is changing, and not for the better. Ever since World War II, Nazis have occupied a unique niche as the West’s universal standard for evil, and […]
Why Epistolary Novels Are a Computer-Science Problem
An epistolary novel, for those who don’t know, is a novel told through documents written by the characters, usually letters, but sometimes also journal entries, newspaper articles, emails, postcards, notes […]