Links

Toby goes to the mat on the issue of the lack of racial diversity in SF/F/H.

P-FUNK
Can you dig it, Chocolate City? Anything you ever wanted to know about the music by the funky brothers from the Mothership. Maintained by Robert Clough.

LEO & DIANE DILLON
Bud Plant's page on the amazing artistic team of Leo & Diane Dillon, who, among other things, created the cover for my novel Midnight Robber. I later found out the Leo Dillon is of Trinidadian background, and so was familiar with the Trinidad Carnival imagery I invoke in that novel.

SMALL BEER PRESS
My friends Kelly Link and Gavin Grant run this independent press which is doing some elegant, edgy work publishing the literature of the fantastic.

DEEP DICKOLLECTIVE
Juba Kalamka is one of the brains (and the brawn!) behind homohop group Deep Dickollective.

The Sunburst Award, inaugurated in 2001, is a juried award given to Canadian literature of the fantastic.Sunburst Award

Afrofuturism online discussion

Online discussion group on issues of Afrofuturism. Afrofuturism

Ralan Conley's Webstravaganza

Want to know where to send your SF/F/H story for possible publication? Ralan Conley's site has great market listings. Ralan Conley's Webstravaganza

Peter Watts' site

Website of Peter "cop tickler" Watts. Every sf writers' circle should have a marine biologist. My life is richer for having heard the phrase "lobster in ecdysis." And do check out his books. He writes page-turners that manage to simultaneously be gloomy, funny, and compassionate. Peter Watts

Karin Lowachee

Karin was the second winner of the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest (I was the first). Interestingly, Karin, like me, is also Canadian of Caribbean background (in her case, Guyana), and also lives in the Greater Toronto Area. Warner decided it must be something in the water. Karin Lowachee

On Spec Magazine

On Spec, the Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, just gets better every year. On Spec Magazine

Web page of the late Virginia Hamilton

Award-winning African American writer of young adult science fiction and fantasy. Among her many accomplishments, she compiled African American folktales. Virginia Hamilton

SF Weekly

Online magazine for people interested in science fiction literature. Free to subscribe. SF Weekly

Carl Brandon Society

I'm on the steering committee of the Carl Brandon Society, which aims to foster discussions of race and ethnicity in SF. Carl Brandon Society

SF Canada

An information-sharing organization for Canadian writers of speculative fiction. Check the site for membership requirements. SF Canada

The Writers' Union of Canada

An advocacy and information-sharing organization for professional Canadian writers (you must have published a book-length work in order to be eligible to join). The Writers' Union of Canada

Science Fiction Writers of America

An advocacy and information-sharing organization for professional writers of speculative fiction. Check the site for eligibility requirements. Also check out their page on scams directed at writers. Science Fiction Writers of America