more genre fiction by people who aren’t cis white dudes By Amanda Hudgins • October 15th, 2021 it seems very odd that we associate science fiction with near identical looking white guys when the first science fiction novel was written by a goth teenage girl who lost her virginity on her mothers’ grave.
Winter’s Orbit, Fireheart Tiger, and the Empire By Amanda Hudgins • February 5th, 2021 I started reading Aliette de Bodard’s Fireheart Tiger around the same time as I started finishing Everina Maxwell’s Winter’s Orbit and found overlap in both the temporal and literal sense.
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain By Amanda Hudgins • December 7th, 2020 A sequel to Nghi Vo’s also fantastic Empress of Salt and Fortune, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain is a story about oral history and mythmaking.