Op-ed • "Building the Right Protagonist," By Eric Dontigney •
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018
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Fiction • “2018: The Year in Review,” by Kersley Fitzgerald •
Hey, it’s Roshni, and this is Organech, the podcast about where life meets technology.
So, it’s almost the new year, 2019, and we’ve seen some big changes this year, haven’t we? Heroin addictions are down, as well as addictions to other prescription pain killers. Suicides are lower than they have been in years,...
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
From the SHOWCASE archives...
Fiction • “How it Always Happens,” by S R Mastrantone •
Celine held her hand up to the horizontal slash in the mountain wall. A soft breeze tickled her palm, barely discernible but for its temperature: much cooler than the arid summer air that had made their week in the Ardèche so torturous.
“What do you think?” Dermot asked. He was standing below her, at the foot of...
Feeding the Muse: Living Well on a Writer’s Budget
Recipe • Traditional Corned Beef and Cabbage • by Karen Bethke
Now is the time to buy corned beef. Just as the Monday after Easter is the best time to buy a ham, the Monday after Thanksgiving is the best time to buy a frozen turkey, and the Monday after Christmas is the best time to buy a beef roast or prime rib, all the grocery stores that stocked up for St. Patrick’s...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Talking Shop
Op-ed • “Boldly Going Beyond,” by Guy Stewart •
I completely agree with Eric Dontigney’s assessment of the problems with “SF, Diversity, and This Author’s Dilemma.”
I’m pretty sure that if I agreed with his solution, I’d have to quit my job. After almost thirty years teaching science, I’m now a counselor at a predominantly black, semi-urban high school, and I am a big,...
Monday, March 19, 2018
Talking Shop
Op-ed • “Politics, Fandom, and SFF,” by Eric Dontigney •
As an extremely minor player in the field of science fiction and fantasy, I frequently approach SFF culture from the perspective of a fan. I geek out over new seasons of Doctor Who. I wish more people were watching Stan Against Evil—seriously, it’s awesome. I watched Firefly when it was still on TV. So, in a peripheral...
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Op-ed • “Notes Towards a Manifesto,” by Bruce Bethke •
It seems I need a manifesto.
I’m not entirely sure why. I’ve gotten along for decades just fine without one. But everyone seems to have a manifesto these days, and I’m beginning to feel embarrassingly underdressed without one. As we’re working to improve sales and develop the Stupefying Stories and Rampant...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
From the SHOWCASE archives...
Fiction • “The Wishing Hour,” by Romie Stott •
Nira was indeed pregnant, belly an albino watermelon and nipples like dormant volcanoes. When she walked, she waddle-stomped, and when she walked, she burped. She waddle-stomp-burped down the stairs and up again to collect a package from Omaha.
Congratulations on your purchase of auction lot 74, the note read. We hope you...
Feeding the Muse: Living Well on a Writer’s Budget
Recipe • Low-Carb Enchiladas • by Karen Bethke
There are only so many times you can repurpose leftover baked chicken as chicken noodle soup before you start to wonder, “What else can I do with this?” The great part about this recipe is that while I usually make it with leftover chicken, it works just as well with leftover steak, leftover pork chops or pork tenderloin,...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
From the SHOWCASE archives...
Fiction: • “No Accounting for Taste,” by Lance J. Mushung •
I sat on a bench on one side of the small, battleship-gray drop bay of my patrol cutter, Oliveria.
The last month and a half of the patrol had been mind-numbing, but
taking a ship of wasters into custody would soon make it all worthwhile.
Wasters violated the regulations prohibiting the dumping or
processing...
Monday, March 12, 2018
From the SHOWCASE archives...
Fiction: • “The Waters of Oblivion,” by Michael Haynes •
Jackson always calls hyperspace the “waters of oblivion.”
It seems an odd affectation, out of character with the rest of his
carefree personality. His parents are both dead and he has no close
relatives; he’s told me he plans to work the hyperspace runs until he’s
thirty and then retire young and wealthy.
I...
Talking Shop
Op-ed • “SF, Diversity and the Author’s Dilemma,” by Eric Dontigney •
A common, and wholly accurate, refrain is that much of contemporary entertainment still aims at a white, male demographic. Movies and TV focus on white men or largely white ensemble casts. Ratings giant NCIS long-featured one of the whitest casts on TV, though a scan at the current roster shows some...