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7 votes
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Karin Smirnoff pens new Dragon Tattoo novel – picks up from David Lagercrantz in filling out the late Stieg Larsson's vision for a ten-book sequence
5 votes -
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, crime fiction fan and Iceland's Prime Minister, has published her first thriller novel with her close friend and bestselling author Ragnar Jónasson
4 votes -
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice, & 150 years of gay vampires
5 votes -
Inform 7 concepts and strategies
7 votes -
Standard patterns in choice-based games
11 votes -
A historian's perspective on the Battle of Helms Deep
13 votes -
When you only cast non-actors in your movies
3 votes -
JK Rowling's new book, about a transphobe who faces wrath online, raises eyebrows
19 votes -
The true history of the Knights Templar with Dan Jones
4 votes -
The Futures of Inform (Talk transcript and slides)
3 votes -
The Great Fiction of AI | The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction
9 votes -
Sanderson’s First Law for magic systems
17 votes -
She spent a decade writing fake Russian history. Wikipedia just noticed.
8 votes -
Reading to improve language skills? Focus on fiction rather than non-fiction
6 votes -
Idol words
8 votes -
Harry Potter (a literary analysis)
9 votes -
I gave psilocybin a try
Can you answer "yes" to that statement? Tell me about it.
18 votes -
Fifty years of text games
11 votes -
The melancholy decline of the semicolon
17 votes -
Marvel Unlimited - Free month
4 votes -
How to save the novel - self-censorship and problematic language in modern fiction
4 votes -
The poisons – real and fictional – used in Bond films
7 votes -
The 'Shoulder Check' problem, or when snippets of LGBT life feel out of place to others in fiction
9 votes -
A story about living in nature and the value of culture captures the spirit of Finland – Lizzie Enfield explores the remarkable legacy of 'Seitsemän veljestä'
9 votes -
Substack just made a major new hire as it goes after comic-book writers and expands its fiction efforts
4 votes -
Why is young adult fiction the defining literary genre of the last two decades? What does its popularity say about modern American life?
20 votes -
Did Twitter break young adult fiction?
10 votes -
Queer readings of The Lord of the Rings are not accidents
12 votes -
Who’s afraid of modern art: Vandalism, video games, and fascism
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What are some great LGBT speculative fiction?
Speculative fiction contains elements that don't exist in reality. It includes genres such as science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural horror. A producer friend is looking for stories with a...
Speculative fiction contains elements that don't exist in reality. It includes genres such as science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural horror.
A producer friend is looking for stories with a focus on LGBT issues. As someone with a predilection for speculative fiction, it would be great to read/watch some speculative stories that deal with issues in that area. I am aware of some stories with LGBT characters, but gender and LGBT issues are generally not the main themes. I'd love to get suggestions for movies, TV shows, and books (especially short stories) that deal with those issues in a proper and inventive way.
As usual, Wikipedia has an extensive list on the subject, but I was hoping to get some more personal suggestions from the Tildes crowd.
Thanks!
7 votes -
The protagonist problem
13 votes -
It began as an AI-fueled dungeon game, it got much darker
14 votes -
The Paradox of Fiction
3 votes -
The best advice I've ever gotten for writing fiction
9 votes -
Ars’ plea: Someone make this into a series
8 votes -
The internet’s most beloved fanfiction site is undergoing a reckoning
15 votes -
The current New York Times Best Sellers list for combined print and e-book fiction, scaled according to demand for the e-book at a selection of US public libraries
6 votes -
Ready Player Two available now
@Ready Player Two: pic.twitter.com/8zsAmQaZV9
8 votes -
The New York Times Book Review editors' choices for the ten best books of 2020
7 votes -
Into The Omegaverse: How furry fanfic tropes landed in federal court - Featuring LegalEagle, Contrapoints, Caitlin Doughty, and more
15 votes -
Why Panem from The Hunger Games might be the most incompetent dystopian government in fiction
8 votes -
Football in the year 17,776 as told from space
12 votes -
“Would you be willing to ask Siri how to assassinate Trump?” - excerpt from Shelter in Place
6 votes -
The obsessively complete Infocom catalog
10 votes -
CBS Studios has struck a global first-look deal for an adaptation of Ragnar Jónasson's best-selling nordic-noir book The Darkness
5 votes -
Black Panther titles are free on Comixology
8 votes -
Novel idea: The Apartment
Just finished (re-)watching the Friends TV series ... End of the last episode, sitting in the empty apartment (Joey: "Has it always been purple?" Phoebe: "Do you realize that at one time or...
Just finished (re-)watching the Friends TV series ... End of the last episode, sitting in the empty apartment (Joey: "Has it always been purple?" Phoebe: "Do you realize that at one time or another, we've all lived in this apartment?")
Got me thinking, more as a plot contrivance than the actual plot, a story about an apartment, spanning a century or more, and the various people that lived in it, jumping back and forth across time, linking them together through history ... perhaps even, a la "Ship of Theseus", spanning multiple centuries and multiple homes/dwellings that occupied the same space.
So specifically, I'm wondering if anyone can think of any novels that adopt this idea, or anything similar, as a primary vehicle for their storytelling?
I have a vague recollection of a short story or novella in 2ndary school, about the life of a redwood, and the various people and animals that lived in and around it over the centuries ... and also I recall reading "A Winter Tale" by Mark Helperin -- a semi-fantastical novel about the city of New York ... oh look, apparently, they made it into a movie, too.
But those two are the only examples I can think of that come close to this idea.
PS: I love to write fiction, and someday I may even finish a novel ... but generally, I get about halfway through, figure out how it's going to end, and then lose interest ... so if anyone with more ambition likes the idea, you're welcome to it.
ETA: I'm not looking for the 10,000 variations of "oooh, haunted by the ghost of a person that died here 20 years ago". Broader, covering a longer timeframe, multiple substories interwoven into the same living space, you get the idea.
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You Are A Chair
13 votes -
AI Dungeon: Dragon Model Upgrade
12 votes