Sci-Fi, Structure, and Politics

There's some overlap with the romance article a few posts ago, but also a fair few good bits about class and mass culture. The point about Las Vegas performing arts made me smile.

Junk DNA and Schizophrenia

An accessible, interesting article detailing a theory of schizophrenia via prehistorical infection carried forward in our DNA. 

A Fun Article on Romance and Politics

Or "your Regency romance novel isn't actually apolitical". 

(Not "politician leaves family for secret mistress". Again.)

Copyright in SPAAAAAAAACE

A breakdown of the weirdness of international/interplanetary copyright. Consider reading if you're building a space-faring future.

Ten Fantastic Short Stories For Free

Nabokov! O'Connor! Gogol! Checkov! Bradbury! LeGuin! Barthelme! Kafka! Munro! Saunders! 

Online! For free! For God's sake, what are you still doing here?

Chrestomathy

by Anatoly Belilovsky.

I'd liked Mr. Belilovsky's work quite a bit when I'd run into it before, but recently I began seeking him out specifically and it's been very rewarding (I also found out he'd written several things I'd very much liked but not realized were his). This story is not super-easy, but it's very rewarding. And if I call it literary fanfiction I mean that in the absolute most loving way possible.

Also, if you're not reading Ideomancer, you probably should be. They do wonderful work.

(Edit: also, here's an interview with Mr. Belilovsky that I enjoyed)

The Ecology of Lady Warriors

Django Wexler offers some thoughts about the societal structures that allow for a female army in your fantasy novel.