what fiction suits best the discussion of the zeitgeist–the spirit of times, our times and the times to come–than science fiction? A few authors are doing it now (Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, Neal Stephenson, Alastair Reynolds, and Ian McDonald come to mind–but guess what? All male Anglos. I want to make clear I have absolutely nothing against them or their works–I love them all, and I find them true trailblazers. I just wanted to see more people from different countries, speaking different languages, from different ethnicities, genders, writing about the same issues. Or similar issues from their own POVs.

JG: Are you sure you can’t think of a single female non-white author whose fiction suits our time? C’mon, Fabio!

FF: Of course I can! Lots of them! (But did you ask me this? I didn’t think so.) Octavia E. Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, N.K. Jemisin, Aliette DeBodard, Nnedi Okorafor, to name a few.

RT @danny_at_cpj: Prachatai prosecution begun by report to police from individual -- . Should all reports lead to p ...

to run the gigantic printer. needs a bunch of python modules installed to run

RT @norashalaby: #tahrir now. A couple thousand protesters

Carolyn Ives Gilman reads from her fantasy novel Ison of the Isles. #WisCon #aqueductpress

Banging on pots in Montreal:

About the repressive law passed recently in Quebec:

Montreal report:

RT @patrickwitty: Brutal, important front page of the @guardiannews, heartbreaking photo from the massacre in Houla, Syria ...

The Soviet SF film Larisa describes is ! Kin-dza-dza. #WisCon

Texas honor student Diane Tran, 17, thrown in jail for missing class and supporting her family

RT @angryblackwomen: #WisCon, Feminist Blogging panel starts in 10! Here's a list of the panelists' fav blogs: #Fem ...

RT @ribbonknight: Here's a semi-transcript of the Imagining Radical Democracy panel: #RadicalDemocracy #WisCon

I talk about , patterns and antipatterns. Essay in Wiscon Chronicles vol.6 #WisCon36 #noisebridge

RT @tinytempest: Please Signal Boost! @WisCon36 POC Dinner – Friday: #wiscon

RT @hanabel: Wikimedia Women's Edit-a-Thon #WWT

RT @arianesays: Resource for women in tech from volunteer coordinator at Wikimedia c/o @awjrichards #WWT

Awesome circuits-and-LED dollhouse kits! I just backed Roominate: Make It Yours! on @Kickstarter

@sh1mmer Maybe Noisebridge, and you could try to partner with Mission Dignity:

RT @PennyRed: This is what a feminist looks like! #nonato #radfem2012 bloody hell yes.

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I just backed Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology on @Kickstarter

More on the milkymist! which I guess Sébastien brought us last week! #noisebridge #5mof

Diana shows us a PBX config file and then the gui for YATE , FreeSentral. #noisebridge #5mof

Diana shows us a PBX config file and then the gui for YATE , FreeSentral. #noisebridge #5mof

Josh is talking about MacRelix , a very nifty unix-ish environment! #Noisebridge #5mof

No, correction, the telepathic color maven GENOME. blah blah ketamine. Here is E Clair Acuda Bandersnatch's flickr!

AWESOME

Dashing off to go read at Writers With Drinks tonight. Tra la!!!

Very interesting !

I took the OTW community survey! Please support the Organization for Transformative Works! via @otw_news

Huge general strike and protests in Quebec...

Replicator Wednesday meetup and talk on 3D printing at #Noisebridge tonight! 3D printed broccoli...

having a hard time with this #trayvon article by @mstem crediting so much awareness to

having a hard time with this #trayvon article by @mstem crediting so much awareness to

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Womanist Musings: Boys Need Affection as They Grow

To support women in technology, @Etsy teams up with @HackerSchool, offering $50,000 in grants: #hackergrants