[SciFiNoir Lit] File - Map_of_SciFinoir_Member_Locations

2006-06-02 Thread SciFiNoir_Lit
Hi SciFiNoir Family. This is a reminder to add your name to our group map that lets members know in what cities other scifinoir members live. Most of you probably live really close to other memers and do not even know it. This map will hopefully correct that. Please click through to add your

[SciFiNoir Lit] File - membership_faq

2006-06-02 Thread SciFiNoir_Lit
Welcome To SciFiNoir Literature SciFiNoir Literature is hosted by Tracey L. Minor and is run without charge for the benefit of fans and contributors from all backgrounds to speculative fiction. If you wish to join and maintain membership in the list, you must agree to the guidelines below.

[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: [CAAR] CASTING CALL!]

2006-06-02 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
Original Message Subject: [CAAR] CASTING CALL! Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:40:09 -0400 From: Pamela Booker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Pamela Booker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *_ACTORS NEEDED_* *_ _* We are casting a multiracial group of actors for a play

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Hayden
Why not? --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, sancochojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends on how you define movement in respect to the topic of this discussion. I think she acknowledges afrofuturism, but why call it a movement? --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Chris Hayden

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Hayden
Do you write say the Wachowski brothers a personal note if you have a comment about the Matrix novels? I started to post on her blog, you gotta go through some rigamarole to register to do it, I am registered on enough stuff on the web, I decided not to do it. End of story. She never saw

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Hayden
I am not angry. I am stating a possibility. Most people sell out when somebody names their price. It is part of becoming an adult. I am not assigning a value judgment to it. Her blog does sound suspiciously like the kind of talk I hear from artists, actors musicians when people start

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-02 Thread sancochojo
Like I said, leave the movements for the activist. --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Chris Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not? --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, sancochojo mccartjf@ wrote: Depends on how you define movement in respect to the topic of this

[SciFiNoir Lit] [Fwd: 300,000 free ebooks from worldbookfair.com

2006-06-02 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
Original Message Subject: Free chapter added to saga of e-books Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 08:50:12 -0400 From: Walter Kwami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The developing world could really benefit from this free e-books project...

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-02 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
So let me get this straight (no pun intended if she has her hair straightened on relaxed she is a sell out??? if I decide at the end of the summer that I am tired of wearing a fro and i want to get a relaxer, I'm a sell out too? Seems to me that are some pretty superficial criteria for

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Hayden
Check again. That is not from Amazon. That is from the Afrofuturism website --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those are amazon affiliate links amazon books sales. You do not need the authors permission for that.

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Hayden
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So let me get this straight (no pun intended It took me a while to get that one. Curled my toes if she has her hair straightened on relaxed she is a sell out??? if I decide

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Hayden
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, sancochojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said, leave the movements for the activist. No. And neither did any of these guys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_(literature) Community email addresses: Post message:

RE: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-02 Thread Nora
-Original Message- From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Hayden Do you write say the Wachowski brothers a personal note if you have a comment about the Matrix novels? If they have a blog, yes. I started to post on her blog, you

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Hayden
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Chris Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, sancochojo mccartjf@ wrote: Like I said, leave the movements for the activist. No. And neither did any of these guys

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-02 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
The link to her book, Brown Girl in the Ring goes to the following link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0446674338/vietnamgeneratioA/ They do not need her permission to do that TRacey Chris Hayden wrote: Check again. That is not from Amazon. That is from the Afrofuturism website

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Hopkinson sells out?

2006-06-02 Thread Dr. Lester K Spence
Nora made the most cogent point, given Hopkinson's comments...but no one has responded to it: On Jun 1, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Nora wrote: I think it's a disservice, both to authors and to this nascent movement, to hijack people into it. A movement doesn't *need* to go hunting for members,

[SciFiNoir Lit] ACCELRANDO

2006-06-02 Thread Dr. Lester K Spence
i've been looking for good science fiction for a while now. since butler's passing i've mourned the fact that we don't have anyone that is able to effectively put the urban african american experience in their speculative stuff. the closest we have is steven barnes, but his work doesn't