Squirrel Tao http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com The tao of my squirrel paths on the web Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:00:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 en Wiki on Feminist Science Fiction and Musings on Legolas http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/07/21/wiki-on-feminist-science-fiction-and-musings-on-legolas/ http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/07/21/wiki-on-feminist-science-fiction-and-musings-on-legolas/#comments Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:14:56 +0000 Jennifer Franklin Elrod Books Wikisfan fictionfeminist science fiction http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/07/21/wiki-on-feminist-science-fiction-and-musings-on-legolas/ Yesterday, while googling wikis, I found what looks like a fun and interesting wiki about feminist science fiction. It looks like it could use more contributors, but it has some interesting entries and links, like this one to an article about online female fanfiction written in Tolkien fanfiction communities on Yahoo. I learned that most online fanfiction is written by women. I also learned of the existence of “Legomances” (stories fantasizing about the author and Legolas) :) There’s more going on with Legolas than simple romance, thought. It’s not uncommon for fanfiction authors to look at Legolas as a Muse or at the race of elves in general as Muses.

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]]> http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/07/20/books-etc-we-like/feed/ GAM3R 7H30RY http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/05/28/gam3r-7h30ry/ http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/05/28/gam3r-7h30ry/#comments Sun, 28 May 2006 16:07:06 +0000 Jennifer Franklin Elrod Books Writing Games http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/05/28/gam3r-7h30ry/ GAM3R 7H30RY, a draft by McKenzie Wark, is another book that is being shared online before finishing and publishing it. Wark hopes to use the GAM3R 7H30RY website to foster discussion around two questions:

  1. can we explore games as allegories for the world we live in?
  2. can there be a critical theory of games?
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]]> http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/05/28/gam3r-7h30ry/feed/ Without Gods - A Blog to Book Experiment http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/05/28/without-gods-a-blog-to-book-experiment/ http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/05/28/without-gods-a-blog-to-book-experiment/#comments Sun, 28 May 2006 16:01:10 +0000 Jennifer Franklin Elrod Books Writingreligion http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/05/28/without-gods-a-blog-to-book-experiment/ Without Gods is an interesting experiment in going from blog to book. Without Gods is currently a blog by Mitchell Stephens, who is writing a book on the history of atheism. He is making his writing process transparent and interactive online on his blog. The end result will be a book that will be published by Caroll and Graf. His blog has attracted a good bit of discussion and debate.

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]]> http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/05/28/without-gods-a-blog-to-book-experiment/feed/ The Orientalist http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/04/21/the-orientalist/ http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/04/21/the-orientalist/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:28:06 +0000 Jennifer Franklin Elrod Books http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/04/21/the-orientalist/ The Orientalist is out in paperback now. It looks intriguing, a literary and historical detective story. A Time review says that it “reads like a secret history of the 20th century”. It’s the true story of a Jew, Lev Nussimbaum, who assumed the persona of a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. I think I’m going to have to read it.

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