Eschewed Obfuscation

A funny comic about writers, readers, and compulsory reading.

yhlee discusses her livelongnmarry music commission for swan_tower, a.k.a. Marie Brennan. Follow through for a link to download the mp3.

An online copyright slider.

The Guardian's Top 10 Asian Crime Novels, a significant number of which are written by POC. Also the top 10 SF novels written by women.

Via magicnoire, an addictive game called Word Vine.

Via telophase, a small-press release of Sherwood Smith's bildungsroman prequel to Crown/Court Duel, A Stranger to Command. I probably can't afford to buy it, but you should.

Via yhlee, Charles Coleman Finlay's short and original short story "Footnotes."

For those who followed the Helix debacle, the alternative archive Transcriptase will allow you to enjoy selected stories without contributing to Helix's pageviews.


And probably much more to come, sporadically, as I work through two weeks of Internet-reading backlog.