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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Archetypes are ubiquitous, yet misunderstood. All writers innately know how to use archetypes, yet many don’t realize that’s what they’re doing and don’t understand how they fit into literature as […]
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 […]
[Trigger warning for discussion of rape and sexual violence. Spoiler warning for Garth Ennis’ Battlefields Vol. 1.] One key decision I made while writing Among the Red Stars was the […]
Critics are used to being able to state nearly any media-related opinion with some degree of immunity, but there is one pitfall that they fall into with surprising regularity: Making […]
This article was originally posted at Feminist Borg. One of the benefits of the rise of YA literature has been an expansion of literature for girls and the sorts of […]
This article was originally posted at Feminist Borg. One of the areas in which the male-dominated nature of the media often shows through with dazzling clarity is in the gender […]
This article was originally posted at Feminist Borg. They look like us, but they are not us. They have powers we don’t understand. They don’t trust us. We don’t trust […]
Talking inanimate objects show up in children’s media from time to time as a sort of tide-me-over from talking animals. But they had a problem that other kids’ movies lacked: […]