Adventures Elsewhere — January 2022

[helloladies]

Adventures Elsewhere collects our reviews, guest posts, articles, and other content we've spread across the Internet recently! See what we've been up in our other projects. :D

Anna

➝ Over at my personal journal I’ve be reflecting on 2021 with series of year in review posts:

• Writing


• Reading,


• Learning


• Watching Things

➝ I’ve also started live tweeting my latest Chinese history read Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China by Francesca Bray.

➝ I’ll be hosting a read along of The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China by Dorothy Ko details here.

Ira

It's all #GamesHugo all the time over here!

First and foremost, WE HAVE A BRAND NEW CATEGORY DEFINITION: "Best Game or Interactive Work"! This is a huge deal because the category definition is what actually gets voted on and "signed into law" and becomes what future Worldcons MUST do every year! We have put together an extensive FAQ to answer the most common concerns people raise, and now have a survey for you to fill out to help us compile feedback.

In addition, I wrote some twitter threads about games and how creating a new Hugo category works:

➝ What makes a game SFnal?
This is a less straightforward question than you might think! Even games that we wouldn't think of as speculative bend the rules of reality as a matter of course (e.g. by letting players survive what would normally be mortal or debilitating wounds), so how can we evaluate a game in terms of it being eligible for a Hugo?

➝ How to create a new Hugo category
Most people, even people interested in the Hugos, don't know how you actually go about creating a Hugo category! I break down the process as simply as possible here; look for a more detailed post all about it right here on ladybusiness.

Susan

➝ I got into my nostalgia feelings about Final Fantasy I! It took up a lot of my tweenage imagination, so going back to it was an exercise in what was actually in the game and what was the headcanons I built for myself when I was a kid. I promise that as a kid I had a lot fewer questions about how the world's economy worked though.

Comments

[fred_mouse]

survey link appears to be broken?