Black to the Future: A Black Science Fiction Festival will be in Seattle June 11th-13th. Octavia Bulter, and Steven Barnes will both be speaking (but not Delany, or Nalo Hopkinson), including together on a panel that Sunday. (via Katie)
Was reading Gaiman’s journal and he mentioned he had a story in a recently released anthology, Mojo: Conjure Stories. Conjure stories are a problematic sub-genre of local color fiction. One I happen to be impressed by. And I think Gaiman is amazing. But he is also as white (if not as pure) as driven snow. I don’t know. I’m skeptical but intrigued.
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I tend to write about books, coffee, the Web, open source, collaboration technologies and XML.
I spend most of my days writing code, and occasionally fomenting dissent.
Currently Residing: San Francisco
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