Links of interest on Lucy and “A Product of Their Times”

Renay discusses Luc Besson’s latest film, Lucy, at Ladybusiness.

Fade Manley talks about the problems with excusing things as “A Product of Their Times.”

Sleeps With Monsters: Thinking About Reading, Writing, and Radicalisation

Over at Tor.com – and I’ve been very slack about linking to my posts there consistently – I’m joined by two fellow reviewers for a conversation:

RENAY: “It’s not just me and my biases, my internalized habits of valuing men’s voices more, but the industry culture itself doing a pretty effective job with marketing… Where we gets our recommendations matters.”

STEFAN: “I ended up peering at my stack of potentially-to-be-reviewed books for that month and realizing that I had about 15 titles by male authors waiting for me, and 2 by female authors. That’s not me requesting certain books or discarding others; it’s just a basic sample of what I was getting in the mail.”