2018 SFF criticism in review
Jan. 1st, 2019 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forestofgloryHappy new year everyone! As part of my looking back at 2018 I wanted to talk about some of the SFF criticism I wrote and read over the year.
Here’s two things I worked on in 2018 that I’m still really proud of:
Where Have All the SFF Moms Gone?
Short & Sweet Roundtable Discussion: Short Fiction Reading Habits Thanks so much to all my rountable participants! I hadn't done something like this and you all made it easy and fun! Plus you were all so insightful.
I also wrote Short and Sweet a quarterly(ish) collum for Lady Business, and for the 1st half of the year did approximately monthly short fiction rec posts here on my journal.
Now I want to remember some of the excellent criticism that other people wrote in 2018.
First here’s three really good essays about domestic labor/motherhood in SFF:
Writing While Woman: Mothering in SFF by Tiffany Meuret
“In The Far and Dazzling Future, People Are Still *People*”: A Round-Table on Domestic Space Opera
Aliette de Bodard on Motherhood and Erasure
I’m so happy that people are talking about these important issues that are dear to my heart! I hope people write even more about this in 2019!
Next there's these two really different but really good essays on disability disability in the Vorkosigan Books:
Sergeant Bothari and Disability Representation in the Early Vorkosiverse by Rose Lemberg and
Miles Vorkosigan and “Excellent Life Choices”: (Neuro)Divergence and Decision-Making in Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga by Ira Gladkova (full disclosure: I read this is draft)
And a couple of things that don’t really fit into a category:
The Seduction of Numbers, the Measures of Progress by Marissa Lingen This an excellent take on different types of progress and how they are treated in science fiction.
LITCRIT FROM ANOTHER PLANET: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986) is really good discussion of an essay that’s personally very meaningful to me and my journey as a critic.
What online criticism did you enjoy in 2018? I’m sure I’ve missed a lot of things since I tend to read this type of thing haphazardly. So I'd love to hear about your favorites -- or things you wrote.
Here’s two things I worked on in 2018 that I’m still really proud of:
Where Have All the SFF Moms Gone?
Short & Sweet Roundtable Discussion: Short Fiction Reading Habits Thanks so much to all my rountable participants! I hadn't done something like this and you all made it easy and fun! Plus you were all so insightful.
I also wrote Short and Sweet a quarterly(ish) collum for Lady Business, and for the 1st half of the year did approximately monthly short fiction rec posts here on my journal.
Now I want to remember some of the excellent criticism that other people wrote in 2018.
First here’s three really good essays about domestic labor/motherhood in SFF:
Writing While Woman: Mothering in SFF by Tiffany Meuret
“In The Far and Dazzling Future, People Are Still *People*”: A Round-Table on Domestic Space Opera
Aliette de Bodard on Motherhood and Erasure
I’m so happy that people are talking about these important issues that are dear to my heart! I hope people write even more about this in 2019!
Next there's these two really different but really good essays on disability disability in the Vorkosigan Books:
Sergeant Bothari and Disability Representation in the Early Vorkosiverse by Rose Lemberg and
Miles Vorkosigan and “Excellent Life Choices”: (Neuro)Divergence and Decision-Making in Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga by Ira Gladkova (full disclosure: I read this is draft)
And a couple of things that don’t really fit into a category:
The Seduction of Numbers, the Measures of Progress by Marissa Lingen This an excellent take on different types of progress and how they are treated in science fiction.
LITCRIT FROM ANOTHER PLANET: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986) is really good discussion of an essay that’s personally very meaningful to me and my journey as a critic.
What online criticism did you enjoy in 2018? I’m sure I’ve missed a lot of things since I tend to read this type of thing haphazardly. So I'd love to hear about your favorites -- or things you wrote.
