After holiday travel that entailed spotty internet access, I’m happily back home and in front of my trusty PC.  Here are a few links of interest for the new year.  I’ll be back to blogging about SF shortly.

• The Future Fire, a speculative fiction journal and press, announced the launch of a fundraiser for their next anthology: “Problem Daughters will amplify the voices of women who are sometimes excluded from mainstream feminism. It will be an anthology of beautiful, thoughtful, unconventional speculative fiction and poetry around the theme of intersectional feminism, with a specific focus on the lives and experiences of women of colour, QUILTBAG women, disabled women, sex workers, and any intersection of these.”  I’ll have an interview with the editors of this anthology posted soon.
• All three editions of Lightspeed‘s People of Colo(u)r Destroy special issues (Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy) are now available.  From their website: “The People of Colo(u)r Destroy special issues exist to relieve a brokenness in the genre that’s been enabled time and time again by favoring certain voices and portrayals of particular characters.”  Also check out the Women Destroy and Queers Destroy series.
• Since I thought I might be away from the internet a while, I loaded up my mp3 player to catch up on podcasts I haven’t listened to in a while.  Among them were BBC Radio 4’s episode of Four Thought, in which poet Hannah Jane Walker (no relation) “makes the case for being a bit sensitive [….S]he thinks that people should embrace their sensitivity, and not pretend to be tough if they’re not.”  Refreshing listen for those of us who are told (again and again!) that we’re just too sensitive….
• And speaking of The Future Fire, I have a novelette over there that was published in late December, “Over the New Horizon.”  Pluto, alien signals, conspiracy theories, and the woman at the center of the discovery surrounding them.

All the best to you all for a happy 2017!