A day after my post on Speculative Fiction vs. Science Fiction, Catherynne M. Valente wrote a post on the same topic and she has a lot of good and interesting things to say about this. One thing I really didn’t talk about in my post is what I see as a taxonomy problem. Personally, I…
Yesterday, Jeff VanderMeer wrote about how he doesn’t give a crap about genre. Jeff wrote a wonderful book called Booklife which is among the finest guides to managing a writing career that I’ve ever come across. I’ve never met Jeff in person (although we both attended the recent Capclave) but his reputation proceeds him and…