Outer Alliance Spotlight #36: Brandon Bell May 28, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , add a commentWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #36. Each Friday, the Spotlight features an ally who writes, reviews, publishes, or is in some other way involved with LGBTQI speculative fiction. Our guest this week is Brandon Bell, Outer Alliance founding member, and co-editor of The Aether Age: Helios.
Brandon is a straight ally who is ethically opposed to any group having lesser rights than the majority. His work has appeared in several places including M-Brane SF, Byzarium, Everyday Weirdness, and Return to Luna. Together with Chris Fletcher of M-Brane, Brandon is editing an anthology, The Aether Age: Helios, which is due out this Summer.
Brandon is a Rissho Kosei-kai Buddhist who lives in the Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas area with his wife and daughters. His favorite movie is The Night of the Iguana, and his favorite book is Zod Wallop by William Browning Spencer. In addition to his blog, he maintains a Twitter feed as @Nithska.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #35: tycho garen May 21, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , 1 comment so farWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #35. Each Friday, the Spotlight features an ally who writes, reviews, publishes, or is in some other way involved with LGBTQI speculative fiction. Our guest this week is tycho garen, writer and creator of the Outer Alliance wiki.
tycho garen (also known as Sam Kleinman) is a young, queer science fiction and tech writer living in the Philadelphia area. His interest in communities and the work people can do in groups comes through in most of his pursuits. From dancing and shape note singing to science fiction writing and open source software theory and development, tycho actively engages in group discourse and creation.
His projects include The Cyborg Institute (think tank exploring the intersections of communities and technology), Knowing Mars (a science fiction novella), and the Outer Alliance wiki. In addition to his personal site, he also maintains a twitter feed.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #34: Sara M. Harvey May 14, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , 2commentsWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #34. Each Friday, the Spotlight features an ally who writes, reviews, publishes, or is in some other way involved with LGBTQI speculative fiction. Our guest this week is writer and costumer, Sara M. Harvey.
When Sara ten years old, a teacher gave her some notebooks to fill with stories, and the storytelling habit stuck. Sara’s first novel, A Year and a Day, was published in 2006. Her short stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Kerlak Press’s Dragons Composed. Apex Books published the first volume of her Penemue trilogy (steampunk horror novellas starring a lesbian half-angel with mad fighting skills), The Convent of the Pure, in 2009. The second volume, The Labyrinth of the Dead is available for pre-order now, and the third volume, The Tower of the Forgotten is scheduled for a 2011 release.
One of Sara’s other passions is costuming. She teaches, constructs, and frequently speaks about costumes on panels at conventions. She’s also contributed chapters to several costuming textbooks including The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing Through World History. Her essay on the Juni-hito styles of Heian Japan is available free online at Clothesline Journal of Costume and Dress.
Sara lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband, Matt and their three dogs. She is acttive on LiveJournal, Twitter, and Facebook in addition to her personal site. She will be attending Hypericon in June and Pi-Con in August.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #33: Cesar Torres May 7, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , add a commentWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #33. Each Friday, the Spotlight features an ally who writes, reviews, publishes, or is in some other way involved with LGBTQI speculative fiction. Our guest this week is Cesar Torres, one of the Outer Alliance’s founding members, and author of The 12 Burning Wheels.
Cesar was born and raised in Mexico City, but has lived in Chicago for the past 23 years. An advocate of both art and science, Cesar has been involved with performance arts groups like Barrel of Monkeys and The Neofuturists, and is currently working towards an MS in Human-Computer Interaction at DePaul University. His diverse interests inform his writing, which he describes as weird and wondrous.
Cesar maintains a Twitter feed in addition to his blog. He will be reading from The 12 Burning Wheels on the first of June at Hopleaf as part of their Gothic Funk reading series.