Tag: sci fi

The No-Stilettos Rule: My Approach As A Woman Creating Scifi Book Covers

Click here to read at io9.com.

Featured illustrations include work by Dan Dos Santos, Wendy Chan, and Nekro.

Asian-American College Student Debuts Science Fiction Novel

Karen Bao began writing her novel Dove Arising while still in high school.

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Remembering Leonard Nimoy …

A small selection through a POC lens …

* Video: George Takei on Leonard Nimoy.

* At Pensacon, Nichelle Nichols remembers Leonard Nimoy.

* Leonard Nimoy on ‘new’ Spock’s Uhura romance (2010)

* Nichelle Nichols on “Spock-Uhura” (2010)

* Obama On Leonard Nimoy: “I Loved Spock”

* Leonard Nimoy’s advice to a biracial girl (1968)

VIDEOS:

Sources: Youtube, TrekToday.com, CNN.com, LATimes.com, PensacolaToday.com, Deadline.com

Take a Look at These Blerd-Positive Tumblr Recs!

HIT THE COMMENTS WITH YOUR OWN SUGGESTIONS!

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Black Girl Nerds

“BGN is a place for people like me to express themselves freely and embrace who they are.”

Cosplaying While Black

Always on point with great cosplay photos.

Fuck Yeah SciFi/Fantasy WOC

Celebrate women of color in SFF.

Geekquality

“We celebrate diversity in geek pop culture and we discuss how things could be improved.”

Midwest Ethnic Convention for Comics and Arts

MECCA, aka MECCAcon, is a large comic book and artist convention held annually in Detroit, Mich.

Musings of a Blerd

“A ’90s kind of girl living in a post-apocalyptic world.”

Our Lady of Black Sci-Fi

One of nrrdygrrrl’s absolute favorite tumblrs.

POC-Creators

Bringing the arts in 50 shades of great.

Quirky Black Girls

Blerding it up with radical aesthetics & more.

Superheroes In Full Color

“This blog is dedicated to racial and cultural diversity in comic books and derivative works (film, tv, video games).”

Brandon Routh and China’s Zhang YuQi to Get ‘Lost In The Pacific’

Vincent Zhou directs this “sci fi thriller” & sequel to “Last Flight.”

Chinese “Last Flight” poster (2014) Last-Flight-2014