Sidetracks - August 27, 2015

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Sidetracks is a collaborative project featuring various essays, videos, reviews, or other Internet content that we want to share with each other. All past and current links for the Sidetracks project can be found in our Sidetracks tag.

Renay

➝ "The Vishakanya’s Choice" by Roshani Chokshi is out now from Book Smugglers publishing. I haven't read it yet, but the art is so pretty!

➝ Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name, an essay about gender bias in book representation, made the rounds this month. It took me awhile to read it because I already knew the ending: replies to men will be faster, more encouraging, and more likely to reap benefits than replies to women. I was not surprised.

➝ Never Read a Romance Novel? Grow Up was good. I liked the subtitle: "The categorical dismissal of the most-read genre in the world reveals ignorance, not intellectual superiority."

➝ I love space opera recs! Gail Carriger's 10 Favorite Space Operas.

➝ Science Fiction Is Really, Really White. No surprise here.

➝ No Country for Young Women is painful but so good and true.

➝ Some Hugo links, as we pick up the pieces:

• Helsinki won their bid to host Worldcon in 2017. I voted for them! I'm so pleased they did it. Their Twitter feed is at worldcon75.
• 2015 Hugo Award Winners Announced.
• This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been. Those noises you heard were me shrieking in agony.
• 2015 Hugo Awards Post-Mortem
• 2015 Hugo Analysis: Best Novel
• Hugos & Puppies: Peeling The Onion

Book Acquisitions

Added TBR: Hawkeye, Vol. 4: Rio Bravo by Matt Fraction, Francesco Francavilla, David Aja, Annie Wu, and Chris Eliopoulos, Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

Jodie

I have largely just been going to work to earn the money to do the fun things lately, so I haven't seen much of the internet for a while. As a consequence I mostly have gifsets of pretty people to offer up this week.

➝ Regina Mills' wardrobe gives us all strength. Flawless.

➝ Charlie Hunnam did a King Arthur photoshoot - I assume just to make us all happy?

➝ Kristen Stewart for Bond... after/at the same time as Idris Elba. They keep remaking Spiderman and you're telling me we can't have concurrent Bonds? >.>

➝ If Call Centre Employees Were Honest. Some of these statements can easily be applied to general retail work.

➝ Laurie Penny's novella is gonna be published by Tor.com!!!

➝ Sadly, I can't see the CW's newest animated series, based around DC comics, yet but Vixen looks interesting and maybe you'll want to check it out.

Comments

[litomnivore]

I… I don't think I could survive KStew as Bond. I would die of joy.

(Although it would also be fun to see her as Felix Leiter, Bond's American CIA friend who just swans in in the third act in a great outfit, helps save the day, and then is TOTALLY SAFE.)