May 3, 2012 | The New School | New York City
Margaret Atwood discusses with Amy Grace Loyd what it means to write in the age of the internet in the first installment of our Dialogue Series, part of the2012 PEN World Voices Festival.
Michael A. Morrison’s piece “Fun with Your New Head: Getting into SF” records a multitude of great reads for diving into science fiction. For the ease of building your must-read list, following is a list of 17 books from Morrison’s essay to escort you into the bewildering depths of sf.
Once you know that there are automobiles, anybody can come up with the idea of a national highway system. But it takes a science fiction writer to imagine the traffic jam.
Connie Willis
(Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org)
Gallo thinks part of the problem is that male artists greatly outnumber female artists in the industry.
“You go to art school, and it’s 50-50,” Gallo said. “But professionally, it’s overwhelmingly male.
“This is an unfortunate fact of the industry. These artists grew up with comics and gaming, so it’s easy to perpetuate these things without thinking them through.”
