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Quick thoughts on gender roles and gender flip

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…nted head of House is Claire, who’s a woman (the others have a definite tendency for over-confidence and schemes that blow up in their faces). ETA: about having completely different genders (invented ones that are neither male nor female), something I haven’t tackled here: I feel it can work, but that it’s tricky to do well? If you don’t differentiate your genders enough from the existing ones, people will still fall back to the existing gender bo…

Sale: “The Breath of War” to Beneath Ceaseless Skies’ science-fantasy special month

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…Skies, for the special science-fantasy month in March. It will be in good company, since contributors include Yoon Ha Lee, Rachel Sobel, and Seth Dickinson, who had couple amazing pieces in BCS and in Clarkesworld last year. I’ve always loved reading science-fantasy, so it was really nice to be able to write a story in that sub genre. Involves quite a bunch of pregnancy scenes–because obviously we don’t have enough pregnant women in SF!–spaceship…

New recipe: couscous

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…A classic Maghrebin dish served with semolina. Don’t expect authenticity, I did a mix and match because I didn’t have harissa or ras el hanout in my pantry… Recipe here, let me know what you think!…

Ship’s Brother

…A Xuya universe story. You never liked your sister. I know you tried your best; that you would stay awake at night thinking on filial piety and family duty; praying to your ancestors and the bodhisattva Quan Am to find strength; but that it would always come back to that core of dark thoughts within you, that fundamental fright you carried with you like a yin shadow in your heart….

The Princess of the Perfume River

…-1–symbol k, first referenced in work linking entropy to probability by Ludwig Boltzmann in 1877 AD. It was the same way in life as in the story: the fisherman plying his trade on the river rapids; the princess trapped in her tower, waiting for the sound of his flute, waiting to be taken away from the palace. Except that Thien was the princess, the captive one–if the city of Hue could be a tower, and guiding tourists through the ruins of the Citad…

Scattered Along the River of Heaven

…ieve to think of the stars Our ancestors our gods Scattered like hairpin wounds Along the River of Heaven So tell me Is it fitting that I spend my days here A guest in those dark, forlorn halls? # This is the first poem Xu Anshi gave to us; the first memory she shared with us for safekeeping. It is the first one that she composed in High Mheng—which had been and remains a debased language, a blend between that of the San-Tay foreigners, and that o…

The Heartless Light of Stars

…osenbaum, Daily Science Fiction, 2012. speed of light: a physical constant denoting the speed of light in a vacuum, important in many areas of physics, and valued at 299,792,458 meters per second. It is the maximum speed at which all energy, matter, and information in the universe can travel–symbol c, postulated in Einstein’s special theory of relativity in 1905 AD. Vu had never been able to speak to Thuy. Even when they were children, he’d had go…