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Bah... somehow deleted most of my post with an accidental keypress and couldn't undo!
Let's start off with another batch of found Prisoners of Gravity uploads
Racism (Feb 18th, 1993)
How racism is handled in SF and comics.
Part One: Louise Simonson (on covert, unintentional racism and tackling it in Superman), Will Eisner (on changing his brother's name so it doesn't seem Jewish, and his views on the roots of racism, and stereotypical racial 'looks' in comics), John Byrne (on a complaint he got about stereotyping when portraying a particular ethnic type... Canadians), Gilbert Hernandez (on subverting stereotypes and whether he's a spokesman), Denys Cowan (on comics as a White Male Club, and trying to change it)
Part Two: Milestone comics, cartoonist Dan Pirarro (general views on racism), Andre Norton (on including minority protagonists in her fantasy fiction, and the problems she's had trying to publish it, and the reactions she's got from the people she's tries to portray), Samuel R. Delany (on being one of the first black writers in SF, and including black characters as an aesthetic choice vs a political one), Karen Haber (on The Mutant Season, showing mutant characters as both victims and perpetrators of racism, and about SF dealing with issues like racism in the metaphor vs tackling the issue head on)
Part Three: Spider Robinson (on racism in the publishing industy, and a story of his own inadventant prejudice), William F. Wu (on the widespread geographical experience in Chinese Americans, and difference between Chinese characters in his works vs a white writer), Owl Goingback (on trying to dispel Native American stereotypes in SF), Jewelle Gomez (on The Gilda Stories gaining acceptance in academic communities, and it not being the standards she's aiming for)
Profiles: Feb 25th, 1993
Profiles on three creators: Jeff Smith of Bone, Fantasy authot Guy Gavriel Kay, and SF author Elizabeth Vonarburg. No detailed summary, just a few bits here and there.
Part One: Guy Gavriel Kay. Lessons he learned from finishing Tolkien's The Silmarillion.
Part Two: Jeff Smith, creator of Bone (includes interview with Neil Gaiman on discovering Bone) (also the introduction to the Vonarburg bit)
Part Three: Elizabeth Vonarburg
I'll just do two this time, but there's "Cyberbooks", "Immortality", and "First Contact" on tap still.
And I finally finished the Sixth Doctor's, Colin Baker's, run on Doctor Who. My thoughts below, as usual, broken up into sections:
The Doctor: Not all that appealing to me. ( Read more... )
The Companions: ( Read more... )
The Stories: ( Read more... )
What's next? Well, Seven, of course. I've only seen his first episode, but I like him more already so far. Once I'm done him, I'll have seen all the canonical Doctor's runs (either watching or reading transcripts of every episode). I've already finished a mini-milestone in that I've seen every on-screen regeneration, in context. I'll probably finish my old school watching by the time the Eleventh Doctor's run starts.
Moving on, before I go, Stargate Universe, minor spoilery comment on the mid-season finale, boiling down to I CALLED IT ( Read more... )
Oh, and, for anyone wondering, as expected, I did not wind up going to the Xmas party for my work. *shrug*
Let's start off with another batch of found Prisoners of Gravity uploads
Racism (Feb 18th, 1993)
How racism is handled in SF and comics.
Part One: Louise Simonson (on covert, unintentional racism and tackling it in Superman), Will Eisner (on changing his brother's name so it doesn't seem Jewish, and his views on the roots of racism, and stereotypical racial 'looks' in comics), John Byrne (on a complaint he got about stereotyping when portraying a particular ethnic type... Canadians), Gilbert Hernandez (on subverting stereotypes and whether he's a spokesman), Denys Cowan (on comics as a White Male Club, and trying to change it)
Part Two: Milestone comics, cartoonist Dan Pirarro (general views on racism), Andre Norton (on including minority protagonists in her fantasy fiction, and the problems she's had trying to publish it, and the reactions she's got from the people she's tries to portray), Samuel R. Delany (on being one of the first black writers in SF, and including black characters as an aesthetic choice vs a political one), Karen Haber (on The Mutant Season, showing mutant characters as both victims and perpetrators of racism, and about SF dealing with issues like racism in the metaphor vs tackling the issue head on)
Part Three: Spider Robinson (on racism in the publishing industy, and a story of his own inadventant prejudice), William F. Wu (on the widespread geographical experience in Chinese Americans, and difference between Chinese characters in his works vs a white writer), Owl Goingback (on trying to dispel Native American stereotypes in SF), Jewelle Gomez (on The Gilda Stories gaining acceptance in academic communities, and it not being the standards she's aiming for)
Profiles: Feb 25th, 1993
Profiles on three creators: Jeff Smith of Bone, Fantasy authot Guy Gavriel Kay, and SF author Elizabeth Vonarburg. No detailed summary, just a few bits here and there.
Part One: Guy Gavriel Kay. Lessons he learned from finishing Tolkien's The Silmarillion.
Part Two: Jeff Smith, creator of Bone (includes interview with Neil Gaiman on discovering Bone) (also the introduction to the Vonarburg bit)
Part Three: Elizabeth Vonarburg
I'll just do two this time, but there's "Cyberbooks", "Immortality", and "First Contact" on tap still.
And I finally finished the Sixth Doctor's, Colin Baker's, run on Doctor Who. My thoughts below, as usual, broken up into sections:
The Doctor: Not all that appealing to me. ( Read more... )
The Companions: ( Read more... )
The Stories: ( Read more... )
What's next? Well, Seven, of course. I've only seen his first episode, but I like him more already so far. Once I'm done him, I'll have seen all the canonical Doctor's runs (either watching or reading transcripts of every episode). I've already finished a mini-milestone in that I've seen every on-screen regeneration, in context. I'll probably finish my old school watching by the time the Eleventh Doctor's run starts.
Moving on, before I go, Stargate Universe, minor spoilery comment on the mid-season finale, boiling down to I CALLED IT ( Read more... )
Oh, and, for anyone wondering, as expected, I did not wind up going to the Xmas party for my work. *shrug*
