About the Award Norma K. Hemming in costume in 1956. The Norma K. Hemming Award marks excellence in the exploration of themes of race, gender, sexuality, class …
LGBTIAQ
Queer is not all that hard: on writing LGBT characters
Traci Castleberry, Matt Cresswell and Melissa Scott joined me to discuss diversity with a focus on how to include gender and sexually diverse characters. The …
Almighty Johnsons – season 3, award-winning TV series
A review by Nalini Haynes Skip to video interview or listen to the same interview in podcast (above). The Almighty Johnsons TV series opens on Axl’s 21st …
Freya Robertson: Sunstone and diversity
A guest blog by Freya Robertson My epic fantasy, Sunstone, is the second in The Elemental Wars series. Like book one, Heartwood, it covers themes …
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“Women Destroy Science Fiction” with Galen Dara, Wendy N Wagner and Rachel Swirsky
Today I have three special guests talking about a topic close to my own heart; Galen Dara, Wendy N Wagner and Rachel Swirsky from Lightspeed …
Should LGBT representation and gender parity be concerns for panels?
I’m currently assembling a schedule of podcasts with a range of awesome guests. All this work is a two-fer: I publish it on Dark Matter …
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
A review by Nalini Haynes Ancillary Justice is a pun. The Justice of Toren is a spaceship in the vein of Anne McCaffrey’s sentient ships …
First Third by Will Kostakis
a review by Nalini Haynes The First Third blurb concludes with the comment that ‘It’s a Greek tragedy waiting to happen’, Will’s sense of humour …
Dreaming of Djinn edited by Liz Grzyb
a review by Nalini Haynes Dreaming of Djinn is an anthology of short stories by Australian authors inspired by Western mythology of Middle Eastern culture …
Huntress by Malinda Lo
a review by Nalini Haynes Huntress is a prequel to Ash, Malinda Lo‘s first novel, but set hundreds of years earlier. Kaede and Taisin are …
Ash by Malinda Lo
a review by Nalini Haynes Ash is a Cinderella story set in a fantasy world with a strong resemblance to the movie Ever After without some …
Eona by Alison Goodman
a review by Nalini Haynes Eona is part two of a duology by Alison Goodman. I already reviewed Eon, the first in the duology. I …
Eon by Alison Goodman
a review by Nalini Haynes Eon has been taken away from his family by a master who intends to train him to be a Dragoneye, …
Tights and Tiaras: next best thing
If you’ve been following Dark Matter for any length of time, you’ve probably read posts referring to a conference I attended at Monash University last …