Owen Blacker

Tagged “book recs”

  1. My 2026 Hugo nominations

    I pay for membership of the World Science Fiction Society, so that I can nominate and vote in the Hugo Awards each year. I keep meaning to blog my noms and votes, so here we go…

  2. Adjective Identity Cryptid №2

    Book review: “Shy Trans Banshee” by Tony Santorella

  3. Book cover for “Seven Recipes for Revolution”, showing a very big kaijū with a man stood atop in a butcher’s apron and some serious looking butchery saws
    Eating kaijū… and the rich

    Book review: “Seven Recipes for Revolution” by Ryan Rose

  4. Weeknotes, 17 May 2024

    A 3rd week of weeknotes is positively miraculous!

  5. Book review: “A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar”, by Harry Nicholas

    Harry Nicholas’s first book, an autobiographical work, contains an impressive amount of interesting and considered thought in its 224 pages. At its core, the book is an eloquent narrative of his journey from one relationship to another, with transformative self-discovery in between.

    But, of course, it is so much more than that, as any such tale always is.

  6. Queer fiction is bringing me joy

    2021 has been A Lot™ — somehow even more so than 2020 has been. Thankfully, 2021 started with 4 books I had excitedly pre-ordered, having seen them talked about online, which made me realise that reading queer characters was making me feel better. And in 2021, we all need to feel better.

  7. Book recs for helping children understand the autism spectrum

    One of the many things I love about the LGBTQ in Technology Slack is that it’s got a shedload of people one can ask for advice on just about any topic.

    Last week, one of the parents on the group asked about book recommendations to help her 5yo daughter become a better, more considerate classmate to a member of her kindergarten who is on the autism spectrum.

    Because the list of links that resulted seems like it might be useful to other people, I’ve copied the recommendations into a blogpost.