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MIND MELD: Is There Gender Imbalance in Genre Fiction Publishing?

2008-07-02 01:22:57 by John in SF Signal
 
...genre fiction publishing. I'm not interested in non-constructive finger pointing, but rather a solutions-oriented discussion. So I posed the following questions to this week's Mind meld panel Q: Gender imbalance in genre fiction publishing is an ongoing point of discussion in the blogosphere. Is there an issue here? If so, then what are...
 
Tags: short fiction, short fiction markets, editor, editor preference, magazine editor, co-editor, short fiction editor, imbalance, sff
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: Who Are Tomorrow's Big Genre Stars? (+ The Top 18 Genre Authors To Keep an Eye On)

2008-06-11 01:16:06 by John in SF Signal
 
...genre stars of tomorrow. In this week's Mind Meld, we turned to folks who deal with lots of writers on a daily basis, and we asked them Q: Which new or little-known genre writers will be tomorrow's big stars? Why Read on to see if their answers match yours MIND MELD EXTRA! After these enlightening responses, I've collected the names that...
 
Tags: genre, science fiction magazine, science fiction, short, short story writer, genre stars, science fiction fan, short story collection, australian science fiction
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: What's Your Favorite Sub-Genre of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy?

2008-10-01 00:28:16 by John in SF Signal
 
...genre subdivides itself into so many sub-genres We asked this week's panelists Q: What's your favorite sub-genre of science fiction and/or fantasy Read on to see their responses. And be sure to tell us your pick for favorite sub-genre Dr. Michio Kaku Dr. Michio Kaku , commonly referred to as a "popularizer of science", is the Henry Semat...
 
Tags: sub-genre, fiction, science fiction, rich sub-genre, favorite sub-genre, genre, science-fiction strips, science fiction movies, social science sub-genre
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: The Best Genre Related Books/Films/Shows/Games Consumed In 2008 (Part III)

2008-12-24 00:29:04 by JP in SF Signal
 
...genre-related books, movies and/or shows you consumed in 2008 Paul Weimer (Jvstin of Blog, Jvstin Style Paul can be found over on Blog, Jvstin Style , where he blogs about a great deal of things, including Science Fiction. 2008 was a fruitful year for genre media. Even as the economy fell into recession, the amount and variety of genre media...
 
Tags: genre, favorite genre movie, genre movie, plot-important genre references, genre movies, movie, john scalzi immediately, john scalzi, movie slightly
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2008 (Part 2)

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2008-12-11 01:28:46 by John in SF Signal
...genre-related books, movies and/or shows you consumed in 2008 We also added this note: They don't have to have been released in 2008. Feel free to choose just some of the genres (sf/f/h) or a subset of the media (books/movies/shows) as you wish Here are their replies Andy Remic Andy Remic is a hard-drinking, hard-swearing, fluffy bunny...
 
Tags: films, genre, grindhouse films, science fiction films, science fiction, science fiction film, books, pixar films, fantasy films
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: Science Fiction as a 'Geek' Genre

2008-02-20 00:28:19 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...genre Jay Garmon Jay Garmon is the author of Geekend hosted at Tech Republic. Jay is quite knowledgeable when it comes to science fiction and geek trivia. Im going to answer this in a roundabout way. As a sci-fi consumer, Im betting you have one of those friends who doesnt do sci-fi despite being an avid reader, movie buff, of TV watcher....
 
Tags: science fiction, science fiction community, community, portray science fiction, science fiction idea, idea, science fiction stories, genre, science fiction bloggers
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2008 (Part 1)

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2008-12-10 12:55:00 by John in SF Signal
...genre-related books, movies and/or shows you consumed in 2008 We also added this note: They don't have to have been released in 2008. Feel free to choose just some of the genres (sf/f/h) or a subset of the media (books/movies/shows) as you wish Here are their replies Mary Robinette Kowal Mary Robinette Kowal 's short fiction appears in...
 
Tags: short, short films, short story writer, short story award, short vignette, short story, science fiction, future science fiction, short film
 
 
 
 
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The SF/F Genre Will Eat Itself

2008-06-02 00:32:30 by John in SF Signal
 
...genre-bashing... he's taking his books and going home : This isn't just about the blog comments, e-mails and forum posts of the last week. This is about the blog posts and comments, emails and forum posts, editorials and everything else from the last few years. The genre-bashing has reached felonious levels. I have read (and yes, partaken in)...
 
Tags: posts, forum posts, genre, blog posts, matthew sanborn smith, comments, gender equality rants, sub-genre, blog comments
 
 
 
 
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AFI Picks "Top 100" Genre Films

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2008-06-18 16:32:00 by Eugene Novikov in Cinematical
...genre films organized by genre: animation, romantic comedy, western, sports (not really a genre, especially if you include Raging Bull in it, but whatever), mystery, fantasy, science-fiction, gangster, courtroom drama, and epic. The complete selections can be found here The lists are sometimes obvious (Alfred Hitchcock makes a 4 for 10...
 
Tags: genre, top, american genre films, afi, lists, american film institute, list, fantasy, fantasy film