Doctor Who's Unsung MVP, Best TV Shows of 2023... and Some Rants!
Before we get started, a shameless plug! New Mutants: Lethal Legion, the collected edition of the miniseries I wrote last year, is coming out January 14....
The Real Reason Why We Want To Punish the Unhoused
As 2023 ends, more and more people are being left with no place to go. Wars, atrocities and natural disasters are creating incomprehensibly vast numbers of...
How To Fix Goodreads
Last week, a nauseating scandal hit the book world. Basically, a white author created fake accounts on Goodreads, and used them to leave a slew of one-star...
The Pesto Manifesto!
Just a heads up! If you want to get a signed copy of one of my books as a holiday gift for someone, you only have a few days left to order from Folio Books —...
A Productivity Hack That's Been Helping Me Lately
Hey everybody! If you're looking to get a holiday gift for the humans (or other sentient beings) in your life, I just wanted to mention that you can get...
My Favorite Science Fiction/Fantasy Books of 2023
First off, what I've been up to lately... I realized that if folks are subscribed to my newsletter, they might actually be interested in what's going on with...
Doctor Who Spinoffs I'd Love To See
Doctor Who is back! This coming Saturday sees the first new episode in absolute yoinks, and there's tons more to come. Returning showrunner Russell T. Davies...
Why Does God Hate Figs So Much?
From 1999 to 2005, I ran a website called godhatesfigs.com. I realized that I've never talked about it in my newsletter, so here's the whole story. (Warning:...
The Lesson That Superhero TV Shows Keep Learning
Two pieces of news struck me recently. First, Superman and Lois is ending with its upcoming fourth season. This bums me out, because I love that show. Tyler...
Why I Don't Like Halloween
I didn't always dislike Halloween. When I was a kid, I kind of liked it: I used to dress up as one of the Doctors from Doctor Who almost every year (see...
Why Is It So Hard For Hollywood To Create Brand New Heroes?
The other day, director Matthew Vaughn argued in favor of going back and retelling the story of Anakin Skywalker and his scrappy kids. Vaughn said he would...
12 Male Role Models From Science Fiction and Fantasy
Lately I feel like everyone is talking about masculinity and what it means to be a good dude. The other day, I was on a panel at the Pride on the Page book...
Jedi Knights and Vulcans Both Suck Now. What Happened?
Jedi Master Plo Koon and T'Lyn, a Vulcan character on Star Trek: Lower Decks Something strange happened to both Star Wars and Star Trek around twenty-five...
News Flash: Trans People Have Internalized Transphobia!
Trans Solidarity March in Washington DC (Photo by Ted Eytan, Creative Commons) A dozen years ago, Julia Serano called me up and asked me to speak at Girl...
There's No Queer Liberation Without Fighting Capitalism
This pink flag that says QUEERS AGAINST CAPITALISM has been hangging in my apartment for as long as I can remember. It comes from some rally/event I attended...
11 Books That Changed How I think About Space Opera
A detail from the cover of Stainless Steel Rat: Deluxe Edition from 2000 A.D., by Carlos Ezquerra and Kevin Cosnell, based on the characters created by Harry...
7 Hot Takes About Star Trek
Hey everybody, happy Star Trek day! I'm just barely recovered from COVID now and haven't had time to write a new newsletter, so please enjoy this repost of a...
The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse
We've all watched in horror as red states have banned books in schools and libraries. We've seen teachers fired merely for reading a book about gender...
One Thing (Almost) Every Aspiring Writer Needs
I'm regularly asked what advice I have for newbie writers, and I usually say stuff about trying to find community by joining a writing group, going to...
Stuff I Love Right Now
I usually include a recommendation at the end of every newsletter for a piece of music, a book or a TV show/movie. I haven't been doing that lately, because...