One of the winners of this year’s James Tipree Jr. Award is: Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam
YAY
From the website:
In Ancient, Ancient, Kiini Ibura Salaam’s startling stories combine science fiction, fantasy, and mythology in a sensuous exploration of what it means to live while struggling to define self and other. Salaam’s language is poetic and sensuous — a unique and original voice. The stories are ambitious and challenging, demonstrating excellent range in both storytelling style and imagery, from the mundane to the fully fantastical. Salaam is particularly interested in agency in oppressive social realities and explores how oppression works on our gendered bodies.
You can buy the paperback and eBook versions from the Aqueduct Press website.
Looks like I have another book to read.
This will be worth it!
#awards
Attention creators! Princeless nearly swept the Glyph’s last year and I certainly don’t want to this year, because that means not enough of you are submitting!
So…
If you are a Creator of Color
Or/And your comic features black characters or black issues, get your stuff ready and submit it to the Glyph Awards, THE award show that was created to honor black creators and characters in comics!
The 2012 Hugo Award winners »
Winners included two writers I’ve been following here, Ken Liu (Best Short Story) and E. Lily Yu (John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer).
- Ken Liu, “The Paper Menagerie” (text and audio) The son of a Chinese mail-order bride prefers “real [American] toys” to magical origami.
- E. Lily Yu, “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” (text and audio) What it says on the tin! Really!
Proposed YA Hugo Award nixed. The future of fandom, everybody. »
Linkspam
- Legendary illustrator Leo Dillon has died.
- SF Signal has a roundtable about race in sf with David Anthony Durham, Aliette de Bodard, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Ken Liu.
- At Harvard Medical School, Bryan Wei, Mingjie Dai and Peng Yin have created a font made of DNA.
- Wiscon happened. (I was kind of out of it last weekend but I know a lot of Tumblr people went.)
- I mentioned that Andrea Hairston won the Tiptree, right?
Locus » 2011 Nebula Award Winners »
I totally forgot these were happening. A lot of great nominees; there seems to be, at least to me, an unusual number of non-white authors/works with non-white main characters. Sadly, most of them did not win.
Some thoughts:
- Novel: This reminded me to put Among Others on hold.
- Short Story: I preferred E. Lily Yu’s story, but that’s just me.
- Dramatic Presentation: As usual, goes to a Doctor Who episode, because fuck you that’s why. I was rooting for Attack the Block, which gets all the points for doing a POC-centric alien invasion story.
- Solstice Award: A kind of lifetime achievement thing which can be presented posthumously, which is why Octavia Butler is a co-winner.
- tl:dr; Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
O HAI GUISE IM ALIVE
- I GOT SUCKED INTO LIEK REDDIT AND MINECRAFT AND SHIT
- AND MISSED POSTING RLY IMPORTANT SHIT LIKE ANDREA HAIRSTON WINNING THE TIPTREE
- AND THE NEBULA NOMINEES ARE OUT BECAUSE THE NEBULAS ARE COMING UP REAL SOON AND ALL KINDS OF COOL PPL AND BOOKS AND STUFF GOT NOMINATED LIKE N. K. JEMISIN, ALIETTE DE BODARD, E. LILY YU, NNEDI OKORAFOR, GREG VAN EEKHOUT, AND ATTACK THE BLOCK (WHICH WILL TOTALLY LOSE OUT TO ANOTHER FUCKING DOCTOR WHO EPISODE BUT WHATEVER).
- I WILL BE TOO BROKE TO GO TO WISCON
- AND PROBABLY TOO BUSY DOING COOL SHIT IN TORONTO
- BUT ANYWAY, TO THE REAL REASON I CAME BACK TO TUMBLR
- I JUST NEEDED SOMEONE WHO WOULD UNDERSTAND WHEN I FEEL THE NEED TO SPEAK IN ALLCAPS AND BULLET POINTS AND SAY
- LOL. WHITE. FEMINISTS.
I aten’t dead!
I’ve just been busy being sick and doing politicky stuff and wooing a couple people and reading Twitter instead of Tumblr so I totally missed out on any Tumblr stuff and/or feminist blog things. But here’s a backlog of links:
- Geek Feminism is making a list of women of colour in comics.
- I’ve been quietly making a list of women of colour sf authors as well.
- N. K. Jemisin’s essay “Dreaming Awake” about her experience as a black sf fan and author is a must-read.
- It’s Hugo nomination time! Here’s a list of eligible works by POC.
- Con or Bust, the auction raising money to send fans of colour to cons, starts tomorrow!
Nnedi Okorafor wins a trophy that is a statuette of a notorious racist, deals with it »
Locus » 2011 Aurora Award Winners »
Notably, Derwin Mak and Eric Choi’s Chinese-diaspora anthology The Dragon and the Stars won for Best English Related Work.
