Fantasy With a Hint of Asian Spices
My own take on this is that Hermione was written white, originally cast white based on Rowling’s advice to the casting director. The casting of a black actress in the The Cursed Child may either be down to open mindedness or may be put down to Rowling’s obsession of going back and changing facts retrospectively […]
Read More Was Hermione Black? White Bias in LiteratureThe new fantasy/steam Amazon Prime show has just dropped, starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne. It is set in a post World War 1 styled fantasy world, where the Fae have gotten caught between two warring human empires; the Pact and the Burgues. The Fae sided with the Burgues, but were betrayed when the Burgues […]
Read More Carnival RowIn my previous post I suggested that the rise of women writers may be considered problematic by some. But it’s not just women writers that are rubbing the old guard up the wrong way. It’s also writers of colour. Minority voices in fiction, despite being the overwhelming majority in the world. See the post below […]
Read More Why Alternative Voices are both Necessary and ImportantThere is a growing narrative around women and fiction writing which seems to ignore (as usual) fantasy genre writing. Women writers have been producing influential fantasy and sf fiction for a long time that hasn’t been overtly genderised. I’m picturing the dragon emblazoned covers of Melanie Rawn, the awesome War of Light and Shadows by […]
Read More Women and FictionIt’s seems women are dominating fantasy and sf, which isn’t a bad thing, but one has to question why? One would hope that it is purely on merit, but could there be other forces at play? It is difficult to argue that for the last couple of years men just haven’t been good enough to […]
Read More Women dominate the Hugo AwardsIt’s good to see that the Hugo award continues to honour and celebrate diverse voices in science fiction and fantasy. Malay Mail: Malaysian author Zen Cho bags Hugo sci-fi award for best novelette. https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/08/19/malaysian-author-zen-cho-bags-hugo-sci-fi-award-for-best-novelette/1782128
Read More Zen Cho wins Hugo sci-fi awardHere is a fantastic article that rang very true to my own childhood. My reading back then included the Narnia books, Chronicles of Prydain, Fighting Fantasy, Choose your own adventure, Famous Five, Tintin and Asterix. Check it out here: The Guardian: I found all my childhood heroes in fantasy novels. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/06/i-found-all-my-childhood-heroes-in-fantasy-novels
Read More The Guardian: I found all my childhood heroes in fantasy novelsNo, hiatus isn’t a tropical island. Its that shitty place that we sometime find ourselves when life, writer’s block and laziness gets in the way of getting things done. Its not like I don’t have ideas to write up, if anything, I have too many ideas to chase, its been like that for the last […]
Read More Writer in HiatusIts the open weekend for BioWare’s new IP, Anthem, and I, like any good gamer, took the opportunity to dip and test the waters. My first impressions were that it reminded me of Warframe. That is until I worked out how to fly. After that, I felt like Iron Man. Comparisons to Bungie’s Destiny franchise […]
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