With the Hugo Nominations being announced tomorrow, the topic of what is right or wrong with the award is quite popular right now. I am going to take a step away from most of the discussion on this topic and say that I do not believe the issue is political. Sure, at the moment, one…
Today we have a guest post from author Suzannah Rowntree. She speaks on a subject near and dear to my heart. I am a big believer in creativity in our writing…but I find that a lot of calls for originality in form and writing are like telling an artist that they cannot use perspective in…
History has overlooked one of my favorite Star Trek characters. You never hear her name any more, even though you hear Uhura all the time. But no one ever mentions Nurse Chapel, but I loved Nurse Chapel as a girl. Because she loved Spock. The thought of the unrequited love that this fine young woman…
I want to write a brief post about why I love Spock, but many snow days have severely decreased my productivity. So that will have to be for next week. In the meantime, I have been meaning for some time to post John's Book of Gold essay as part of our Superversive Blog. John C.…
Sing O' Goddes of the Eternal Tug of War between Hestia and the Muses! Of the constant struggle between the efforts to entertain and the efforts to spread a message. In particular, today, this manifests as the divide between what people say life should be like and the way life appears in stories and TV shows. The Sad…
Today we have a delightful treat, an interview with Abyss and Apex editor, Wendy S. Delmater. Wendy was superversive before the rest of us ever heard of it. She is friends with Tom Simon, the gentleman who uses Superversive as an online name and who wrote our opening post. She brings her superversiveness to bear…
Hey folks, A special treat: an alternate history Superversive story by author Rachel Kolar (who explains that early attempts to write this story with a Christian protagonist didn't work.) And to the Republic by Rachel Kolar I tried to keep my face calm as I read the attachment, even though on the inside I…
The below post was written for Superversive SF by author Brian Niemerer, whose manuscript I had the honor of reviewing for him last summer. The Life Cycle of a Manuscript On a recent episode of Geek Gab, a listener asked me an excellent question: when is a manuscript ready for an editor? That questions got…
For today's Superversive Blog, we have a guest post by British professor Bruce Charlton, who happins to be one of my husband's favorite authors. The Notions Club — as envisioned by Afalstein JRR Tolkien’s fragments of a novel called The Notion Club Papers: and my attempt to finish some of his unfinished business By Bruce…
Atheists love criticizing religion, and religious folks enjoy discussing how their spirits have been uplifted; however, very few people seem to want to hear about prayers actually being answered. Because of this, I normally don’t post this sort of thing. However, while at Marscon, I dreamt that I wrote this post. When I woke up,…