thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | November 13, 2007
There’s an interesting post on the Feminist SF Blog about aliens in Larry Niven’s Known Space series. Essentially it points out how both the Kzinti and the Puppeteers both have what amount to non-sapient females, and how this amounts to a stealth misogyny. An interesting point that I think goes a little off the rails [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 9, 2007
Everyone’s doing it. . .SF Signal, Big Dumb Object, Whatever. . .. . . so I have to post it too. Eddie Izzard, Lego, Darth Vader. Just to be different, here’s a bonus Eddie Izzard Lego video about movies. (Bet you didn’t know that was an actual subgenre) Warning, language not work safe.
S Andrew Swann | November 8, 2007
I recently responded on a thread on Whateveresque about the term “Mary Sue,” its use and misuse and its drift from fanfic circles into more mainstream criticism. To review (for those who didn’t just click and read the Wikipedia link I provided) the term “Mary Sue” originated in Star Trek fan-fiction circles to identify fan [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 7, 2007
First off: I’ve added “The Heavens Fall” to my Pixel-Stained Technopeasantry. It originally appeared in the DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction Anthology, and was subsequently reprinted in Apex Online. It is a little sf/horror/crime drama. Also, it may be my penchant for irony, but I’ve uploaded my two fictional trial balloons to Scribd, which you [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 6, 2007
Well, I’m starting a little experiment here. I am going to start releasing some of my short stories under a creative commons license. I’m a little bit of a latecomer to this, and I’m not Cory Doctrow or Rudy Rucker, but let’s see if throwing free stuff out there gets any buzz going for ye [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 5, 2007
Well, I am just about halfway done with the first draft of Apotheosis: Prophets. I have reached a point where I am willing to hazard a prediction. You know most books, in addition to the (usually badly written) back cover copy, there’s almost always some edited snippet of the actual text inside the front cover. [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 4, 2007
There’s a cottage industry out there for various random plot/name/whatever generators out there on the interweb. Want a plot? A title? How’s bout a name for one of your characters? Maybe you need the whole story? Working on a TV series or a movie, you can get your own random log lines. Maybe you just [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 4, 2007
. . .and provides an example of a point I was making over ten years ago. You may or may not have visited my home page, which predates this blog by about a dozen years or so, if you have, buried in the writing portion are a couple of essays I did on plot and [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 2, 2007
What do you get when you cross muppets with Quentin Tarantino? My favorite parts? Bunsen Honeydew, and the Fraggle Rock characters in the background.
S Andrew Swann | November 1, 2007
I added a new little feature to the blog here. In the lower right there’s now a widget that’s keeping track of writing posts I flag on RSS feeds I’m subscribing to with Google Reader. Google Reader not only lets you share items from a feed on their own public page, but gives you a [...]
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