New Game Plus

I’m hosting the next issue of The Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans, which will be released one week from today on August 3, 2006.

The issue’s theme–or writing prompt–is the present through origins. This could be a reflection on how your feminism and geekiness came to intersect, a post that traces the the evolution of women in a particular genre, a revisitation of the old school canons, a look at fresh and new things that are starting a revolution of their own, a memoir of finding that first great book or game or comic that really clicked for you, or whatever you can imagine.

Of course, the usual guidelines are fair game. They are (written by Ragnell):

All Weblog Postings on Science Fiction and Fantasy works in all media (books, comic books, television, film, roleplaying tabletop games and video games) written from a Feminist Perspective are eligible.

Fan fiction written from a Feminist Perspective is eligible.

Posts about fan fiction written from a Feminist Perspective are eligible.

Posts about conventions and fan gatherings of a Feminist nature are eligible.

Posts about conventions and fan gatherings written from a Feminist Perspective are eligible.

Posts about any science fiction or fantasy fandom written from a Feminist Perspective are eligible.

Posts linking to newsand announcements are eligible, so long as they pertain specifically to the Feminist Sci-Fi Fantasy community.

Considerations about science fiction/fantasy news from a Feminist Perspective are eligible.

Analysis of non-Feminist works from a Feminist Perspective are eligible.

Rants about any of the above written from a Feminist Perspective are eligible.

Posts which spell “Space” using 3 A’s and two exclamation points and are written from a Feminist Perspective are eligible.

Posts about Green-Skinned Amazons (from Outer Spaaace!) with more than two breasts that are not written from a Feminist Perspective will not be eligible (and if they aren’t damned funny,* will be reproduced for mockery).

Posts about Getting Your Girlfriend into [specific type of fandom] had also better be damned funny. If written from a Feminist Perspective (even tongue-in-cheek), they will be eligible. *Sexist and/or homophobic does not equal damned funny, nor does it constitute anything approaching a Feminist Perspective.

Anything goes, really.

Submission deadlines are August 1, 2006 (although I’ll still consider late submissions if I have time). Please E-mail them to lakedesire@gmail.com or use the web submission form.