Duck of Digital Dominion
It’s been a quiet month (in life, not the news) though had the pleasure, recently, of doing a Second Life Book Club panel with the irrepressible Draxtor
Another Monkey Incident occurred. Fifth I think? There was a thread.
A couple of workthings are in progress, will announce them as soon as I’m allowed to. It’s turning into a strange season in Indian creative fields, thanks to the pandemic and ongoing censorship-via-outrage: I’m hearing of more and more publishers vanishing from deals and producers and networks making payment terms worse/going into rewrite cycles to avoid offending possibly anyone, so increasingly feeling very lucky to have work at present. If you need advice/consults on ongoing creative-field dilemmas, do drop me a line and I’ll try and address some of your questions in the next few issues.
Reading
Aliette de Bodard’s Fireheart Tiger is finally pre-orderable.
Aliette is also the guest in the latest episode of Kate Elliott’s excellent series on worldbuilding.
Really enjoyed Hench, a superhero novel by Natalie Zina Walschots (linking to this review which in addition to being written by the superb Amal El-Mohtar will give Turbulence readers a happy surprise).
Fifteen upcoming diverse fantasy novels to get excited about
An upcoming biography of Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee is going to talk about how he ghostwrote Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Alexander Chee on apocalypse/dystopia/near-future lit and other happy things.
A new way to trace made-up science fiction words.
Notes on worldbuilding from leading SF authors
More of all the things
A thread of animals interrupting wildlife photographers
Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance/democracy incompatibility
Saba Naqvi on some of the politician-criminals of UP
In case you need a reminder: the pandemic is still ongoing. Please wear masks.
Also, I hope you all caught the new Call My Agent season, are following the new Expanse season and WandaVision too. All excellent.
Here is a duck I enjoyed
Back in a bit
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