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- Crème de bananes – Michel Vuijlsteke’s weblog — Michel Vuijlsteke’s Weblog –
- 21 Of The Best British Sci-Fi Writers You’ve Probably Never Heard Of – Here are the top 21 sci-fi and fantasy authors you should be reading this year.
- Con Report: LonCon 3 (Worldcon 2014) – Over The Effing Rainbow – Everything is kind of a blur at this point, but let’s see if I can’t dig up a few shiny moments worth writing about…
- LonCon3 Report ~ things mean a lot – LonCon3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, was happening too close to me this year for me to be able to resist temptation. So last Saturday I got up at an ungodly hour, got on a train to London, and spent the day at the ExCel Convention Centre attending panels where writers and critics I admire discussed various aspects of speculative fiction and fandom, going to readings by some of my favourite authors, and wandering around.
- TERF Battle: A New Book Reignites the War Between Radical Lesbian Feminists and Trans Women | Village Voice – The Internet and social media have only relocated this long-running war online, even as mainstream feminists have banished TERFs — "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists," as trans allies call the opposition, a label the feminists consider a slur — to the outer fringes of the movement. Steinem herself disavowed her older views in an essay published in the Advocate in 2013. "Transgender people," she wrote, "including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned."