Choosing new authors
RaceFail 09 did not intersect my life in any way, and I'm just as happy about that.
However John Scalzi invited Mary Anne Mohanraj to post a piece on his journal about racism, and discussing it and so on. I thought "oh, I know her--at least a little bit" and read it, and I'm glad I did.
It did bring up something that kind of struck me. I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy, and apparently there isn't very much of it written by people of color. I don't usually choose books by characteristics of their authors, but, well, hmmm. Maybe I'm missing out. So I just got a book called "The Iron Hunt" by Marjorie M. Liu, which was reviewed on this livejournal community focusing on writers of color. The dangers of Kindle; I went to Amazon and there it was as a Kindle book, and well, there it was...
Actually I'm starting with the sample. If it seems interesting, *then* I'll splash out the seven bucks to buy the whole file.
However John Scalzi invited Mary Anne Mohanraj to post a piece on his journal about racism, and discussing it and so on. I thought "oh, I know her--at least a little bit" and read it, and I'm glad I did.
It did bring up something that kind of struck me. I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy, and apparently there isn't very much of it written by people of color. I don't usually choose books by characteristics of their authors, but, well, hmmm. Maybe I'm missing out. So I just got a book called "The Iron Hunt" by Marjorie M. Liu, which was reviewed on this livejournal community focusing on writers of color. The dangers of Kindle; I went to Amazon and there it was as a Kindle book, and well, there it was...
Actually I'm starting with the sample. If it seems interesting, *then* I'll splash out the seven bucks to buy the whole file.