July 21, 2020
Are you ready for a summer vacation? I sure as hell am, but since we’re all confined to our yards, let’s take a trip to paradise, to a female utopia that is plague free, where the men are timid (and excellent cooks), and Calcutta is a garden paradise governed by sensible women. Let’s get the heck outta Dodge and visit……
December 13, 2016
In This Month’s Changing the Map Gentle readers, why are there so many more dystopias than utopias in fantastic fiction? We’ve seen a staggering resurgence of dystopic movies, books, and television shows, all portraying terrifying and depressing futures. Zombies, ecological disasters, oppressive political regimes, alien overlords… and that’s the short list. So what’s up? Do our inner cynics find it easier to…
November 10, 2016
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. —Ursula K Le Guin I took the October death of novelist Sheri S. Tepper hard. You couldn’t call her passing at 87 early or unnatural. And although she never achieved the star status of her literary equals,…