Daily Archives: August 20, 2020
A Small Cosmetic Note
Posted on August 20, 2020 39 Comments
As most of you have figured out by now, there are currently two writers here at Whatever: Me, John Scalzi, who has been here for a while, and Athena Scalzi, who came on staff as of this month. On RSS/email as well as on the AMP versions of site, the author byline is evident, but […]
Okay, Sure, It’s My Fault Science Fiction is the Way It Is Right Now
Posted on August 20, 2020 105 Comments
The dimwitted bigot brigade finally came across my piece about the Science Fiction canon from a couple of weeks ago and had a predictable spasm about it, asserting how it was evidence that (I’m paraphrasing from various sources, here) a) science fiction and fantasy was dying, b) traditional publishing (the sf/f parts of it anyway) […]
The Big Idea: Derek Künsken
Posted on August 20, 2020 6 Comments
Moving is hard. Moving to Venus is harder. Author Derek Künsken shows us just how difficult acclimating to strange new lands can be, and what it means to be a family in a place so far from home in his Big Idea, The House of Styx. DEREK KÜNSKEN: I often start my stories from a sense […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying