What's a Glottolog, you ask, and what does it have in common with a llama? Galactic Suburbia tells you how...

WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET? Tansy on Skiffy & Fanty talking Mother of Invention

Mother of Invention paperback now on sale.

HOW TO SUPPRESS WOMEN'S WRITING

The Prologue

“We have always fought,” Kameron Hurley

CULTURE CONSUMED

Alisa: world news, PhD report

Alex: Shakespeare and Hathaway; a lot of Terry Pratchett; Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science, Power in the Enlightenment, Patricia Fara; Counterpart

Tansy: The Governess Game, Tessa Dare; The Crown S2, Triquetra by Kirstyn McDermott on Tor.com, Jacqueline Pearce

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In which we chew through some Hugo chat & stats, and revisit the age-old (tragically still relevant) Joanna Russ text How To Suppress Women's Writing

WHAT DO WE CARE ABOUT THIS WEEK?

Hugo Awards & N.K. Jemisin's historic triple novel win Results Stats stats stats

Guardian coverage

Free Thought Blogs Haters gotta hate

Extra reading: Everything Wrong with SF is John W Campbell’s Fault

Introducing our discussion of Joanna Russ’ How to Suppress Women’s Writing

CULTURE CONSUMED:

Alisa: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before; PHD report

Alex: The Mere Wife, Maria Dahvana Headley; Restoration, Angela Slatter; Highlander

Tansy: We Will Rock You; Highlander; Disenchantment Part 1, Supernatural Season 13

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