February 2012
Mission US: Flight to Freedom →
mission-us.org
Mission US is a multimedia project that immerses players in U.S. history content through free interactive games.
Mission 1: “For Crown or Colony?” puts players in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a printer’s apprentice in 1770 Boston. They encounter both Patriots and Loyalists, and when rising tensions result in the Boston Massacre, they must choose where their loyalties lie.
In Mission 2: “Flight to Freedom,” players take on the role of Lucy, a 14-year-old slave in Kentucky. As they navigate her escape and journey to Ohio, they discover that life in the “free” North is dangerous and difficult. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act brings disaster. Will Lucy ever truly be free?There’s a review of “Flight to Freedom” at Kotaku, and it sounds really good, actually. It’s a browser game, so there’s no need to download extraneous stuff.
Pet peeve: sci-fi characters with obviously Asian names being played by white people
Latest offender (thanks to Star Trek rerun currently on): Noonian Soong…
Word! They do it AGAIN in Enterprise. Brent Spiner is awesomeness, but dammit, can’t ya’ll cut an As-Am actor a break here??
but who watches enterprise lol
shut up i like enterprise ;_;
lol y u mad tho
Pet peeve: sci-fi characters with obviously Asian names being played by white people
Latest offender (thanks to Star Trek rerun currently on): Noonian Soong…
Word! They do it AGAIN in Enterprise. Brent Spiner is awesomeness, but dammit, can’t ya’ll cut an As-Am actor a break here??
but who watches enterprise lol
Pet peeve: sci-fi characters with obviously Asian names being played by white people
Latest offender (thanks to Star Trek rerun currently on): Noonian Soong, the cyberneticist that created Data, who was originally supposed to be played by Chinese-American actor Keye Luke (aka Charlie Chan’s Number One Son) but ended up being played by Brent Spiner, and I can get that it’s kind of cool he plays both Soong and Data, but you couldn’t find aaaaany other old Asian guys? Rly?
(The scene where Lore says to Soong “You can’t be dying! You look fine!” really emotionally is pretty awesome though. It’s, like, Brent Spiner playing three very different characters, awesomely. Stiiiiiiilllllll.)
Fuck Yeah Chinese Myths!: Tu Er Shen (兔兒神) →
fuckyeahchinesemyths.tumblr.com
Not so much is known about this god, but we already know from the last post that he’s called Tu Er Shen ‘cause Rabbits were like, this derogatory slang for gays in Ancient China…
Filed under #shit I did not know.
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The Chaos By Nalo Hopkinson (McElderry; ISBN: 9781416954880; April 2012)
Noted for her fantasy and science fiction for adults, Hopkinson jumps triumphantly to teen literature.
Scotch’s womanly build and mixed heritage (white Jamaican dad, black American mom) made her the target of small-town school bullies. Since moving to Toronto, she’s found friends and status. Now both are threatened by the mysterious sticky black spots on her skin (she hides them under her clothes but they’re growing). When a giant bubble appears at an open-mic event, Scotch dares her brother, Rich, to touch it. He disappears, a volcano rises from Lake Ontario and chaos ripples across city and world, transforming reality in ways bizarre and hilarious, benign and malignant. A lesbian folksinger with Tamil roots becomes a purple triangle with an elephant’s trunk; jelly beans grow teeth; buried streams resurface. Scotch searches for Rich across a surreal, sensual cityscape informed by Caribbean and Russian folklore. Although what they represent and where they come from are open to interpretation, the manifestations are real to everyone and must be dealt with. Hopkinson opens her YA debut conventionally but soon finds her own path, creating a unique vocabulary with which to explore and express personal identity in its myriad forms and fluidity. Anything but essentialist, she captures her characters in the act of becoming. Rich in voice, humor and dazzling imagery, studded with edgy ideas and wildly original, this multicultural mashup—like its heroine—defies category.
” —Kirkus on Nalo Hopkinson’s new YA novel.
do report back on Zoo City…
She just totally referenced Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. The chutzpah. Moxyland was a fun read and I think I’ll like this one too.
(For the uninformed, HDM did that people-toting-personal-magic-animals thing first.)
DC is reviving their sci-fi comics anthology Mystery in Space with a fantastic lineup, including Nnedi Okorafor… →
bleedingcool.com
This looks really good and might actually get me into reading comics again. I always did like a lot of Vertigo stuff.
Con or Bust! 2012 Auction Offers →
con-or-bust.livejournal.com
Here’re the items offered for 2012’s Con or Bust! auction, which raises money to help people of colour get to SFF conventions. A wide variety of things are on auction, from material items like books and scarves, to non-material items like critiques and wardrobe refreshers!
Browse, buy, offer, signal boost, or donate with PayPal!
ETA: Also I’m bidding on Saladin Ahmed’s hardcover of THRONE OF THE CRESCENT KINGDOM. Beat my bid :P
ilu guise toooooooooooo
