I, like Cat Valente, am confused by notion that a science fiction story can be too autobiographical to be fiction. Um, no. I can’t even really add to what Cat says here because there’s nothing extra to say. This notion is silliness.
I would never have written Elan Vital if I was under the impression that there was a hard separation between my life and my fiction. Black Feather as well.
Like I said. Silliness.
An io9 commenter on why she won’t renew her subscription to Realms of Fantasy:
I can’t even begin to unpack the racefail here because I’m too busy going: wait, is that true? I don’t even read the magazine (despite having multiple free issues pushed on me) but I don’t remember anyone saying to me recently “Have you seen all the wonderful ethnocentricity going on in Realms, lately?”
Regular readers, care to enlighten?
Via Nick Mamatas. In the comments someone points out that it may just be a case of them seeing one non-white protag and going OMG the mud people took ovah!
There will be longer posts about this on the ABW and Laptop Mag later today, but I just needed to get this out of my system:
BlackBird, the browser for African Americans
WAT
Blackbird was developed on the simple proposition that we, as the African American community, can make the Internet experience better for ourselves and, in doing so, make it better for everyone. Primarily we believe that the Blackbird application can make it easier to find African American related content on the Internet and to interact with other members of the African American community online by sharing stories, news, comments and videos via Blackbird.
In turn, we can provide you with up-to-date information about what’s hot in our community as well as news and user recommendations related to all things African American.
Essentially it’s Firefox but tweaked to add some black-specific features like Black Search and Black News and Black Video. You think I’m exaggerating — I AM NOT. Just go look at the website.
I’ve been playing with it for a minute, and my first criticism is that the social networking button only includes MySpace and facebook. Even I–oreo that I am–know that Hi5 is the black social network. Why isn’t it included? I’m very suspect now.
Okay, back to work.
(Thanks Vylar!)
