I am a woman and a fan of science fiction and fantasy. I belong here; everyone belongs here. Everyone deserves that first blush of belonging, without having to fight for it at every turn, without having to hunt for it, without having to be shamed for wanting it. Everyone deserves a safe fannish home that welcomes them with no qualifications, but we’re not there yet. So come on, SF fandom.
— Renay
Tor.com is celebrating its fifth birthday this week and as one of the many things we’re doing to mark the occasion, we’ve assembled the entire last five years of our award-winning original fiction into one handy, and possibly physics-defying, ebook.
Project thesis: when looking at a sample of bloggers reviewing SF/F, a majority of men will skew toward reviewing more men. A majority of women will skew toward a more equal gender parity, or the opposite in which they review a majority of women. There will be a handful of outliers.
R.L. Copple does a really cogent job of explaining why Amazon isn’t engaging in predatory pricing under legal definitions. He links this to a statement from the Authors Guild which essentially uses the term predatory pricing
to mean hey, we don’t think Amazon is fair
in a justification for why publishers should be allowed to fix prices.
[The whiteness of the New York Times Book Review] is the product of a busy editor’s mental pathway, which must flip quickly through its virtual Rolodex to find the first acceptable writer to turn a piece around by deadline. When that Rolodex is stocked with whites — and most of the time, it is — the byline count perpetuates itself. White editors grow comfortable in their relationships with white writers. They read books written by white people.
— Amanda Hess - Why 88% of books reviewed by The New York Times are written by white authors
