Recs Post!

[sanguinity]

It's been a long, long time since we've done a recs post. Some of you have been asking for recs as we've gone along (and please continue to do so!), but just in case anyone has been hesitant to start a post of their own, please feel free to use this one. :-)

But first...

• Tehelka, an Indian newsweekly, did a special Pulp and Noir short fiction issue a little while back.
  
  
• Did you know that Expanded Horizons ("speculative fiction for the rest of us") has an authors of color tag?
  
  
• Over at Tumblr, WildUnicornHerd has a roundup of Ted Chiang's works, with links for what is available for free online.
  
  
• Unusualmusic at Angry Black Woman is asking for recs for technology-heavy SF books by POC authors -- go forth and recommend!
  
  She's also got some links to news about Nnedi Okorafor and Zadie Smith, just in case you want to know such things. ;-)

Got a rec? Need a rec? Is there any particular thing that you've been looking for that you haven't been able to find? Ask in the comments!

Comments

[tesseract26.livejournal.com]

Diamant is Jewish. I saw "Jewish" in the tag list and assumed that counted. Apologies if I misunderstood.

[sanguinity]

Some Jews are also people of color. If you go through the "Jewish" tag, you'll see that the authors at that tag are Jewish people of color.

There's more discussion here.

[seekingferret.livejournal.com]

Or, in at least one case, white Jews who co-wrote books with authors of color.

[sanguinity]

Thank you.

[seekingferret.livejournal.com]

Also, looking at the tag, I see it has also been used for books by non-Jewish authors of color writing about Jews or Jewish issues. (That tangle between tags identifying the author and tags identifying subject matter that the long-promised tag overhaul is promising to help clarify?)

[sanguinity]

Yeah, that tangle. Currently, the hold-up is hesitation over what delicious is going to do.

There's only eight posts tagged "jewish", I see. If you want, I can ping Oyceter to see what she was thinking for those tags? We can disambiguate them here, even if we're not ready to do it on delicious yet.