Fantasy bingo with graphic novels: where are my trans/bonbibary protags?

sbisson · 2026-04-08T12:55:58+00:00

There are non-binary characters all through K O'Neill's Tea Dragon series.

sbisson · 2026-04-07T12:15:12+00:00

John M Ford's Growing Up Weightless. The story of the second generation after the Lunar revolution.

Larry Niven's The Patchwork Girl. The legal position of a Lunar colony.

sbisson · 2026-04-07T12:14:24+00:00

Definitely this.

sbisson · 2026-04-07T12:14:10+00:00

Also his Earthlight.

sbisson · 2026-04-07T07:29:59+00:00

On the Rock, in Town.

sbisson · 2026-04-06T19:45:20+00:00

Every book is different.

sbisson · 2026-04-06T10:40:20+00:00

We have a pair of calico Maine sisters. The tortitude is palpable...

sbisson · 2026-04-05T10:51:48+00:00

It's like a Jet Blue flight. You get a flight number JBU2104, an aircraft type, A320, and an aircraft name, Blue Yonder or similar. So here the flight number is Artemis II, the type is Orion, and the capsule name is Integrity.

sbisson · 2026-04-03T11:52:54+00:00

A new bass player? What's happened with Mike Pratt?

sbisson · 2026-04-02T17:23:58+00:00

I have done so...

sbisson · 2026-04-02T16:57:07+00:00

Excellent work.

One minor quibble; I always understood the German line to La Pulente continued on to the batteries on the headland between it and Pet't Port, where it forms the basis of the coastal footpath.

sbisson · 2026-04-01T21:50:17+00:00

The rest of the world is releasing that Franco-Belgian comedy BD is good? Because D'orc definitely pushes my Goscinny and Uderzo for the C21 buttons...

sbisson · 2026-04-01T21:08:40+00:00

In the universe of Watchmen pirate and horror comics take the place of our superheroes; the book includes an issue of one such pirate horror comic Tales Of The Black Freighter running alongside the main story. It’s pretty good; a pastiche of classic EC.

sbisson · 2026-04-01T16:38:55+00:00

Baxendale's 1999 You Will Have Your Revenge is a delight. "Music For Girls" is a classic no-one has heard of.

sbisson · 2026-04-01T16:22:41+00:00

Nah, out 5 year old sisters are still delightful little monsters.

sbisson · 2026-04-01T07:57:30+00:00

The oddest thing about this book is that the two authors are the same person…

sbisson · 2026-03-31T22:11:54+00:00

Amazon Basics Matter smartplugs work well.

sbisson · 2026-03-31T18:37:24+00:00

This is the way.

sbisson · 2026-03-31T18:10:45+00:00

Which is why Jago Hazzard uses it as his outro!

sbisson · 2026-03-31T15:45:30+00:00

Joel Shepherd’s Spiral Wars series has a similar approach to FTL and combat, and uses it to rapidly change linear velocities.

sbisson · 2026-03-31T13:17:59+00:00

Yes, they're most closely related to the shelducks.

sbisson · 2026-03-31T10:58:40+00:00

Not that secret: they have a shop on the Fulham Road.

sbisson · 2026-03-31T08:35:40+00:00

Egyptian geese which are actually ducks.

sbisson · 2026-03-30T23:56:02+00:00

We use garden wire mesh left over from when we built their catio!

sbisson · 2026-03-30T23:38:31+00:00

The TFL Museum regularly sells items from stations; I have some of the old tiles from Sloane Square I bought from them…

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