Archive for 'feminism'

Titan & The Campbell Award

July 22nd, 2007 – 9:29 pm

Ben Bova’s Grand Tour novel Titan was announced as winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel earlier this month. This post examines the merits of that decision and makes an argument to the jury of that award that their choice comprised a mistake damaging to the award and […]

Review: Crossover

July 22nd, 2007 – 6:17 pm

Crossover by Joel Shepherd
A Cassandra Kresnov Novel
Cassandra Kresnov is a weapon of the League: a construct of the advanced biotechnology that is the point of contention in the League’s war with the Federation. A year before we meet her, she opted to be something besides a weapon and fled into general human society. […]