(1) CONSUMER COMPLAINT. io9’s Germain Lussier reveals, “Rey Is Missing From New Star Wars Monopoly, And This Is Becoming a Real Problem”.
The problems of female characters being under-represented in geek merchandise is real. But when it’s a secondary character like Gamora or Black Widow, at least toy companies have an excuse. When the girl is not just the star of the movie, but of the whole franchise, that’s another story.
That character, of course, is Rey, the main character of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the latest problem has to do with Hasbro’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens Monopoly. In the game, the four playable characters are Luke Skywalker, Finn, Darth Vader and Kylo Ren. No Rey.
(2) REWRITING CULTURE. Laurie Penny’s New Statesman post “What to do when you’re not the hero anymore”, while not about marketing oversights, covers some reasons why they should be taken seriously.
Capitalism is just a story. Religion is just a story. Patriarchy and white supremacy are just stories. They are the great organising myths that define our societies and determine our futures, and I believe – I hope – that a great rewriting is slowly, surely underway. We can only become what we can imagine, and right now our imagination is being stretched in new ways. We’re learning, as a culture, that heroes aren’t always white guys, that life and love and villainy and victory might look a little different depending on who’s telling it. That’s a good thing. It’s not easy – but nobody ever said that changing the world was going to be easy.
I learned that from Harry Potter.
(3) GATES KEEPERS. Bill Gates says “The Best Books I Read in 2015” included Randall Munroe’s bestseller —
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, by Randall Munroe. The brain behind XKCD explains various subjects—from how smartphones work to what the U.S. Constitution says—using only the 1,000 most common words in the English language and blueprint-style diagrams. It is a brilliant concept, because if you can’t explain something simply, you don’t really understand it. Munroe, who worked on robotics at NASA, is an ideal person to take it on. The book is filled with helpful explanations and drawings of everything from a dishwasher to a nuclear power plant. And Munroe’s jokes are laugh-out-loud funny. This is a wonderful guide for curious minds.
(4) PHILISTINE TASTE. Cracked delivers “6 Great Novels that Were Hated in Their Time”. Number one on the list – The Lord of the Rings.
The New Republic described the book and its characters as “anemic, and lacking in fiber” which was apparently a real burn back then in the pre-Cheerios days.
(5) TEA TIME. Ann Leckie talks about “Special Teas”.
I am cleaning and organizing my tea cupboard because SHUT UP I DON’T HAVE A NOVEL TO WRITE YOU HAVE A NOVEL TO WRITE that’s why. Also, it had gotten to be quite a disorganized mess and I wasn’t sure what I still had. (Yes, the cats are up next, just gotta remember where I stowed the dust buster.)
Anyway. I came across a sad reminder of Specialteas.com. They were an online tea seller, and they had an East Frisian Broken Blend that was my go-to super nice and chewy for putting milk in tea, and they had a lovely, very grapefruity earl grey.
(6) SHE BLINKED. A video of Ursula K. Le Guin celebrating Christmas Eve at the Farm.
(7) OPEN FOR SUBMISSONS. Apex Magazine has reopened for short fiction submissions. Poetry submissions will remained closed at this time. Apex Magazine’s submission guidelines and the link to its online submissions form can be found here.
(8) COVER WEBSITE TO CLOSE. Terry Gibbons’ site Visco – the visual catalogue of science fiction cover art will go away when its domain name expires February 9, unless someone else wants to take over hosting responsibilities. He posted thousands of images online before moving on to other projects in 2005 – and for the moment, they can still be seen there.
I have tried to find time to do something about Visco at intervals since then but matters came to a head when I got a new Windows 10 computer recently and realised that I no longer have the technology to maintain it. It was developed on a Windows 95 platform – remember that? – using Internet Explorer 3 and such and I guess it is a miracle that it is still accessible at all. But none of the software I used to build it now works on my current machine, so I cannot develop it further even if I had the time.
I could leave Visco sitting there indefinitely, or until advancing technology renders it unusable, but it costs a certain amount of money to run and, more to the point, it is a constant reminder of past glories. So I have decided to let it go to that place in cyberspace where once-loved web sites go to die.
(9) READING RODDENBERRY’S DATA. Joe Otterson at Yahoo! News tells how “’Star Trek’ Creator Gene Roddenberry’s Lost Data Recovered From 200 Floppy Disks”.
Although Roddenberry died in 1991, it wasn’t until much later that his estate discovered nearly 200 5.25-inch floppy disks. One of his custom-built computers had long since been auctioned and the remaining device was no longer functional.
But these were no ordinary floppies. The custom-built computers had also used custom-built operating systems and special word processing software that prevented any modern method of reading what was on the disks.
After receiving the computer and the specially formatted floppies, DriveSavers engineers worked to develop a method of extracting the data.
(10) SIDEBAR TO AXANAR. Kane Lynch’s article in comics form, “Final Frontiers: Star Trek fans take to the Internet to film their own episodes of the original series”, is based on an interview with someone who’s worked on both New Voyages and Star Trek Continues.
(11) BENFORD ON NEW HORIZONS. Click to read Gregory Benford’s contribution to Edge’s roundup “2016: What Do You Consider The Most Interesting Recent [Scientific] News? What Makes It Important?”
The most long-range portentous event of 2015 was NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft arrowing by Pluto, snapping clean views of the planet and its waltzing moon system. It carries an ounce of Clyde Tombaugh’s ashes, commemorating his discovery of Pluto in 1930. Tombaugh would have loved seeing the colorful contrasts of this remarkable globe, far out into the dark of near-interstellar space. Pluto is now a sharply-seen world, with much to teach us.
As the spacecraft zooms near an iceteroid on New Year’s Day, 2019, it will show us the first member of the chilly realm beyond, where primordial objects quite different from the wildly eccentric Pluto also dwell. These will show us what sort of matter made up the early disk that clumped into planets like ours—a sort of family tree of worlds. But that’s just an appetizer….
(12) PU 238. The Washington Post reports the U.S. has resumed making plutonium-238, in “This is the fuel NASA needs to make it to the edge of the solar system – and beyond”.
Just in time for the new year, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have unveiled the fruits of a different kind of energy research: For the first time in nearly three decades, they’ve produced a special fuel that scientists hope will power the future exploration of deep space.
The fuel, known as plutonium-238, is a radioactive isotope of plutonium that’s been used in several types of NASA missions to date, including the New Horizons mission, which reached Pluto earlier in 2015. While spacecraft can typically use solar energy to power themselves if they stick relatively close to Earth, missions that travel farther out in the solar system — where the sun’s radiation becomes more faint — require fuel to keep themselves moving.
(13) TODAY’S BIRTHDAY BOYS
- Born January 4, 1785 – Jacob Grimm, the older of the two Grimm brothers. Wilhelm was born the following year.
Tales in the Grimm brothers’ collection include “Hansel and Gretel,” “Snow White,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Rapunzel,” and “Rumpelstiltskin.” The brothers developed the tales by listening to storytellers and attempting to reproduce their words and techniques as faithfully as possible. Their methods helped establish the scientific approach to the documentation of folklore. The collection became a worldwide classic.
- Born January 4, 1643 – Sir Isaac Newton. Don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me…
(14) ZSIGMOND OBIT. Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, who won an Oscar for his achievements in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and worked on a long list of major productions, died January 1 at the age of 85.
His genre credits included The Time Travelers (1964) directed by Ib Melchior, The Monitors (1969) based on Keith Laumer’s novel, Real Genius (1985), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), and The Mists of Avalon TV miniseries based on Marion Zimmer Bradley’s novel.
(15) THE YEAR IN COMPLAINTS. The Book Smugglers continue Smugglivus 2015 with “The Airing of Grievances”. (I’m getting a migraine from looking at those GIFS, and I don’t get migraines, just saying…)
SOMEONE IS (ALWAYS) WRONG ON THE INTERNET – PART II: THE SFF EDITION
Speaking of awards: Another BIG thing in SFF fandom happened when the World Fantasy award announced that it would be remodeling its award statuette, which had been a bust of the late HP Lovecraft’s face. (Lovecraft, if you did not know, was an openly venomous racist in his personal opinions and in his writings–both fiction and nonfiction.) This news–from one of the most prestigious international awards for Fantasy and speculative fiction, no less!–was a long time coming, and many of us within the SFF community celebrated this move… but there were people who were SUPER upset. Because, you know, by not using Lovecraft’s face on the award, we were all like ERASING HIM FROM HISTORY FOREVER LIKE MAGIC. Or something.
(16) MORE FEEDBACK. After what others have written about reconciliation this past week, the Mad Genius Club’s Dave Freer sounds practically mellow.
…To the other side this is life or death important. The clique of Trufen who pushed their favorites (and they’re a small, interconnected socio-politically homogenous group of the same people, over and over) have some short term motives in doing exactly what they did last year and the years before. Long term, for anyone with an intellect above gerbil there is a strong motive for the Trufen in general to get rid of that clique and to reach some kind of accommodation with the Sad Puppies. But that clique are powerful and nasty and regard WorldCon and the Hugos as theirs. They have no interest in a future that they do not control completely.
I don’t see the foresight or commitment to take any of the painful (to them) steps they’d have to take to give the Sad or Rabid Puppies a motive for reconciliation, to get them to sharing motives like going to WorldCon. As a writer I simply don’t see characters of sufficient strength or integrity who have the vision or the following to take those steps.
Besides this an election year, both sides will be heated and angry.
We all love sf.
But the motives for our actions are very different.
I am glad I don’t have to write a happy ending for this one. It’d take a clever author to do it convincingly.
(17) RECONCILIATION. Don’t be misled by the placement — I doubt Freer or Gerrold are commenting about each other, just about the same topic. David Gerrold wrote today on Facebook:
…I know that some people have talked about reconciliation — and that’s a good thing. But other people have pointed out why reconciliation is impossible, because for them, the past is still unresolved. I understand that — but rehearsing the past does not take you into the future, it just gets you more of the past.
The only conversation I would be interested in having is not about who’s right and who’s wrong, who should be blamed, and who needs to crawl naked over broken glass to apologize.
No. What a colossal waste of time.
The only conversation worth having is about what you want to build and how you want to get there — stick to the issues and leave the personalities out of this…
(18) PRE CGI. It’s like seeing a star with and without makeup. Bright Side has large format color photos comparing the scenes in “17 favorite movies before and after visual effects”.
(19) GET YOUR RED HOT FOMAX. Charles Rector heartily endorses his fanzine Fomax #7 [PDF file] hosted at eFanzines. Among other things, it has 8 movie reviews and a fair number of LOC’s.
[Thanks to Eli, Andrew Porter, John King Tarpinian, and Martin Morse Wooster for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Nigel.]
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@Kathodus:
Context matters here. If I was creating a very extensive selection of books about Antisemitism and the Holocaust, I would definitely include some by antisemites and deniers, as well as some specific responses to them, along with lots of the very best general and specialized history books I could find. If I was creating a small selection, I would not include any of the first two categories, just the best general-audience books. I think most bookstores are in the second situation.
Which would explain why every Rey action figure and toy shows her with her staff. Which is cool.
Wait, so he (Teddy) *meant* to be banned all along? I…I…the–towering intellect–can any of us stand the ILLUMINATION?
The toy description doesn’t say Jedi, it says Rebel. The rebuttal reiterates Rebel.
Camestros Felapton:
I think bookshops not selling books does have something to do with freedom of speech but when I examine those thoughts I find I do not have a clear way of expressing them consistently. So I’ll shut up 🙂
I’m having the same problem. The clearest way I can articulate it is that I wouldn’t want to see any Puppy titles on a Banned Books Week poster.
Thete’s actually a recent story by E. Saxey called “The Librarian’s Dilemma” concerning someone who created a library to archive books which she thought harmful for the general public to see (antisemitim included) after which she tried to destroy all other copies — only academic researchers with credentials would be allowed to see the dangerous books. Interesting story, does not uncritically accept or reject that librarian’s point of view and raises other issues.
@Vasha – to be clear, I was referencing laws making Holocaust denial illegal, which IMO makes it harder to publicly refute, because it then goes underground.
@Kathodus, that is true, such laws do complicate the task of responding to the deniers in sometimes unexpected and unwanted ways.
@Camestros Felapton and SamOgon: What bothers me sometimes is when large businesses decide not to sell something for non-economic reasons, particularly when they have a near monopoly.* It’s strictly speaking not a freedom of speech issue because the government is not involved, but if such decisions make it next to impossible to get ahold of something people want, it’s worrisome. Sort of freedom of speech (or whatever) de jure but not de facto. I’m sure there’s a better way to put it but hopefully my meaning is clear enough. Maybe that’s part of what bothers y’all?
But in my mind, that’s why markets shouldn’t be dominated by a few businesses and I try to support independent bookstores.
ETA: Also, if a number of businesses independently of one another decide not to sell something for whatever reason(s), I figure it’s probably a pretty good reason(s).
*Though ultimately it could be good not to sell something. But I think large businesses that serve many need better reasons than smaller ones.
I’d get super squirrelly about the government saying those books couldn’t be carried in bookstores. That would be Not Ok. I’d also get very squicked by a directive from on-high saying it could not be carried in any given public library system.
But a privately owned bookstore gets to do what it wants. I don’t ask Christian bookstores to carry the Satanic Bible. I don’t start feeling censored if indies don’t stock Amazon titles.
If they had an ounce of sense, they’d figure out which bookstore it was, go to the nearest one, and (if they’re as persuasive and subtle as serpents, after all) convince THAT store to buy twenty copies and do a table display trumpeting SEE WHAT THE CONTROVERSY IS ABOUT!! THE SCIENCE FICTION THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO READ!
But that would require it being actually true, and not just internet outrage.
DMS:
“The toy description doesn’t say Jedi, it says Rebel. The rebuttal reiterates Rebel.”
True, but the lead in every Star Wars movie to date has been the Jedi. There have been a lot of EU materials that have had other types of characters as the lead, but in the movies themselves, it’s always been the Jedi.
(Or the Jedi-to-be, in the case of A New Hope and The Force Awakens.)
@Kathodus
I’m pretty sure that having underground neo-fascist groups that aren’t allowed to spread their terrible ideas through public channels, while people can freely and openly refute their terrible ideas wherever they want (banning one approach to a debate is not the same thing as banning the debate), is better than the let them into the light system that lead to Europe having multiple fascist states, yes. They didn’t wither.
Then again, when Maggie T decided to “deny Sien Fien the oxygen of publicity” and that actor who sounded just like Gerry Adams got a lot of work, it didn’t really help.
Very glad you liked it! Ben, Jordie, JG and I hope to spend a good long time exploring this world and getting to the mysteries at its heart.
Today’s birthday boy is Hayao Miyazaki, 75 now.
@Vasha: thanks for the glossary! Lagoon is very near the top of my TBR pile.
True, but the lead in every Star Wars movie to date has been the Jedi.
But the explanation doesn’t even make sense then. If they didn’t want to “spoil” Rey being a nascent Jedi, then they shouldn’t have included Finn in the set either. After all, if one looks at the trailers, he’s her main rival for the thematic position. How would including Rey in the set have spoiled anything more effectively than including Finn in the set? Hasbro’s response is nonsense after-the-fact butt-covering, and it makes them look really silly.
All right, never mind. You’re right. It’s all sexism.
“Becoming”?
Am I the only person here who is really, really curious about what the heck kind of computer system Gene Roddenberry ran and what the sam hill format those floppies were using?
I am not joking. I imagined they were some sort of S-100 system running CP/M in some flavour, but I’m no longer quite so sure.
@Joe H
This seems to be a problem with store stocking decisions rather than the lack of toys. As I pointed out above there are four non-lego Rey sets available.
@Snowcrash
Given that Disney sued a fan site when it released an early photo of the Rey with light sabre figure to avoid spoilering the film, I can sorta see their rationale. But it is still incredibly weak-sauce.
ThirteenthLetter wrote:
Err, to the extent that cheating in the Hugos could be said to be a “political opinion” I guess.
What is it with Puppies and their need to pretend that the reaction to their Hugo mess is about their politics rather than their behavior? Brandon Sanderson is a conservative–have his books been pulled from stores? What about Gene Wolfe? David Weber? John Ringo, even?
I’ll point out that the rest of us do not need to buy into that framing, and probably shouldn’t cooperate with it as much as we have been.
All they had to do was include Rey in the sets and have the weapons sitting to the side instead of in the characters’ hands.
Then they could have had Rey’s staff *and* her light saber and the weapons of whoever else was in the multipack included and kids could have played with figures and weapons and paired them up correctly once they had seen the movie.
Or just give her the stick and leave it at that. Lots of Luke Skywalker toys had guns and no sabers.
@Kurt Busiek
I thought the same thing.
(mostly posting because I somehow still haven’t ticked the ticky yet.)
@Dara,
per this article, it was indeed disks from a CP/M system that were the trickier ones to recover.
If you want to do some floppy data recovery of your own, the Kryoflux seems to be a good starting point.
A local bookstore which is owned by a decidedly liberal family stocks and sells a goodly number of conservative books. When I asked them why, they said they sell very well which allows them to carry books that don’t sell as well. The only book they’ll flat not carry is Mein Kamph as they lost Jewish family member to the Nazis in the Death Camps.
Their SF and fantasy section sells very poorly reflecting that none of them are fans of those genres, and that the public library just accross the street stiocks deeply in those genres. And the Library buys those books from that bookstore at a deep discount.
Well, on the eve of the new year Boingboing covered the story of one chap who concluded his right to free speech enabled him to spew profoundly racist insults at people peacefully protesting against fracking; unfortunately for him the video went up on YouTube, where someone recognised him and reported it to his employers, who promptly sacked him.
The fact that actions have consequences seems to come as a surprise to many people enamoured of their rights to free speech, in much the same way that people are apparently surprised that someone would wish to establish the facts before reaching a conclusion based on those facts.
This is particularly irksome for those drive by trolls who appear to believe that trying to establish the facts is in some way cheating, and even more irksome for people who have taken over a building in a nature reserve, and issued stirring call to arms to enable loggers to log in that nature reserve, without first establishing that there are any trees there.
Since there are no trees to log there it simply provides the rest of us with an even better reason to laugh at them, which is always useful when considering the veracity of any statements they may make.
@Christian,
Oh, yay, thank you for the link! I was telling my housemate Paul last night that these were almost certainly some sort of CP/M shoggothery, probably an S-100 bus system that got locally assembled. (Cue Frank Hayes, please.) And I was pretty darn sure it couldn’t be entirely custom software(?!) as whatever article Paul had read claimed.
Also – that custom white metal case is pretty 1970s-futurism swank. I like it!
I finished “Barsk” yesterday evening. (Unlike “The Builders”, the other anthropomorphic story I tried recently, which I did not finish even though it was much shorter.)
I may pick up sequels, but I had enough problems with the plot, characterization on the micro and macro levels, and the world-building that I don’t think they will be a high priority on my reading list.
It was moderately refreshing to deal with sciency trappings instead of pure fantasy, but my WSOD had shredded into whimpering tatters by the end, and I’m not sure the 8 deadly words are meaningful when you are dealing with a short handful of actual characters in a too sparse scattering of plot-driven essentialist silhouettes aspiring to the depth of cardboard.
Trying to avoid spoilers for such a new book, I wonder if some of the problems are due to this being a first novel by someone who has written at shorter lengths in the past. I did not believe the purported scales of time, space, and population size in the universe. Maybe the next story will have a budget for extras to populate the backgrounds, which would help some.
Rose Embolism :
Check your privilege, you shapist bigot!
(It’s not easy tapping into the Internet via a submarine cable, but it IS free. And eventually we shall rise again, oh yes we will, you mark my chromotographs!)
I’m somewhat croggled by the idea that they couldn’t find any information on CP-M and the disk formats it used. It wasn’t an unusual setup at the time.
Now if they’d been dealing with 8-inch hard-sector floppies…that’s a specialty item.
Pixel yourself in a Scroll on the river
With tangerine posts and marmalade fives
Somebody quotes you, you respond quite slowly
A filer with kaleidoscope drives
Just finished Planetfall. I’m not quite sure how I would rate this book yet.
I found the first two-thirds quite fascinating. The premise, the mystery, the description of technologies used, and most especially the main character. The gradual unfolding of her character was great. But, after gur obql jnf sbhaq, gur fgbel orpnzr hapbaivapvat. Vs Zvpurny jnf fbzrbar jub jbhyq xvyy fb znal crbcyr, vapyhqvat olfgnaqref, bire fhpu n fznyy pbasyvpg, jul jnfa’g ur qvpgngbe bs gur pbybal gbqnl? Frrq gjb be guerr fubhyq unir vapyhqrq gur vafgehpgvbaf, V’z anzvat zl Zvpunry zl fhpprffbe naq tvivat uvz gur novyvgl gb gnyx gb Tbq, whfg qb jung ur fnlf sebz abj ba. Jul qvq Fhat pner nobhg rfgnoyvfuvat Era’f yriry bs thvyg jura ur qvqa’g zvaq xvyyvat gur bgure 1000 vaabprag pbybavfgf? Naq Era’f ernpgvba gb frrvat gur obql whfg qvqa’g frrz vagrafr rabhtu.
@Jack Lint:
Remind me, which of their albums is that from? Is it Rubber Scroll? Sergeant Pixel’s Lonely Hearts Club Scroll?
@Lenora Rose
I’d heard that one of the problems with finding the Rey figures in stores (the ones sold individually, not these collections where she’s apparently barred for no good reason) were that they were selling too well to keep in stock.
Perhaps, but I put Amazon price alerts on the 6″ Black Series Kylo Ren and Rey figures, and have gotten multiple alerts that Kylo Ren was in stock for MSRP(meaning Amazon got more stock in, as opposed to the e-seller scalpers), and zero for Rey. Over the course of months. Hasbro didn’t put her figure in many case pack-outs past the first, I think.
I have’t seen the movie yet, but if once I have, I were to get one figure or memento, it would probably have General Leia on it. Which it sounds like means a heck of a hunt….
LEGO comes to the rescue again, having just released a new set featuring General Leia Organa… http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Resistance-Troop-Transporter-75140
@Dara: Am I the only person here who is really, really curious about what the heck kind of computer system Gene Roddenberry ran and what the sam hill format those floppies were using?
Nope–count me in!
And more: what the heck is on the 200 disks! (I remember using that size floppies).
And how long till we find out….
Yeah, but Lego goes to the hubby.
So maybe what I heard about the stock being too popular was another bit of CYA on the part of retailers. It’d be nice, though….
@Peter J–I believe it’s from an album called The Transformed Scroll, or something like that.
And more: what the heck is on the 200 disks! (I remember using that size floppies).
An enormous volume of ASCII porn.
Peter J
I can’t remember but it could be Hard Day’s Pixel, Rescroller(alt title Pixelator) or Rubber Scroll.
In my early days in the computer repair/consultancy world I had a client that had about 30 disks of Kaypro CP/M formatted wordstar-knockoff data files that they wanted brought into the (then-)current age of 3.5″ floppies and Wordperfect on DOS
Fortunately they had a working computer that could read the disks, so we rigged up a serial cable and transferred them that way. Still was a pain to migrate all that (slooooow) data.
Mock not; I remember using floppy discs and was initially completely bemused by the fact that floppy discs aren’t floppy. Once I’d wrapped my head around that fact I slowly lowered my guard…
And in today’s shocking news, someone has updated the rot-13 webpage
I’m not sure how I feel about this.
@Stevie: 5 1/4″ discs were pretty flexible (not always intentionally so). I never used the 8″ ones… skipped them, somehow.
I wonder if I could persuade my old Amstrad 8256 to work again? I had fun with it, back in the day – it was definitely worth every penny I paid for it. (Especially as I got it for nothing.)
snowcrash on January 5, 2016 at 4:57 pm said:
Vg’f nyy tbvat gb or svar
OMG, Mark Hopper, LEGO Admiral Ackbar!
@Rob Barrett:
Don’t buy it. It’s a trap.
@Jim Henley
See, I resisted the urge to say that.
@bookworm1398
Planetfall. Gah. The ending to that book drove me nuts. V zrna V qba’g pner vs Era jnf zragnyyl vyy, gb eha bss naq yrnir gur erfg bs gur pbybavfgf jvgu gur zrff fur perngrq, naq abg rira znxr na nggrzcg gb uryc be erfphr gurz, naq whfg tb bss naq nfpraq vagb zlfgvpny Tbq-pvgl ohyyfuvg….nettttu.