Sarah Guan
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Erewhon Books
Works in the book trade: publisher & 2x Hugo Award-nominated editor of speculative fiction @erewhonbooks . @Stanford 🎓, New Yorker, Earth citizen. (she/her)
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steph @eaumohtz
celebrating Asia 🎆 pic.twitter.com/4j1MVRTYXsSomeone please write me an epic, thorny, political science fiction or fantasy novel with these protagonists, thanks. #MSWL forever!
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SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity
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inside everyone you love
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This is A MOOD.
Also, a key component of my #MSWL foreverrrrr
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Uterine Dispatch @uterinedispatch
What if, when a woman died during an unsafe #abortion, the man who got her pregnant died too?THIS THREAD. This is a killer (pun very much intended) speculative fiction premise. Is someone writing this? Please? #MSWL
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A meeting today made me think: I’d LOVE to see a huge, sweeping pre-Columbian epic fantasy novel in my inbox.
Before the Europeans landed and ruined everything, there were vibrant, sophisticated, and competitive empires in the Americas. That’s as epic fantasy as anything. #MSWL
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Aesthetic Sharer ZHR @CGdrawing
Lamprotornis chalybaeus pic.twitter.com/bQhPVJwaKQHow are these birds even real?? They look like they belong in some futuristic techno-utopia?? Are they creepily beautiful government spies???
...would read this novel. #mswl
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Coming out of the “Making Hopeful Art in Hopeless Times” panel at the #Nebulas2018.
YES, #MSWL—send me #hopepunk. The world is on fire, so let’s give the good guys agency.
Thanks, @snarkbat, @MikeRUnderwood, @lettie_prell, @J_R_Dawson (and @_alexrowland for coining the term).
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Sarah Guan @Sarah_Guan
A partial list of some of the coolest moms of science fiction and fantasy:- Molly Weasley (Harry Potter)
- Catelyn Stark (Song of Ice and Fire)
- Mrs. Murry (A Wrinkle in Time)
- Queen Ramonda (Black Panther)
- Tenar (Earthsea)
- Alana (Saga)
- Essun (The Broken Earth)
Consider this whole thread a #MSWL
I want stories about good moms and bad moms, dedicated moms and indifferent moms, moms who move mountains for their kids and moms who do amazing things in spite of having kids.
All these women existed—and continue to exist.
Happy #MothersDay.
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Talia Mirai @TaliaMirai
Much as I would love to think I'd wear some super elaborate ensemble to the Met Gala, I know my style. Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is my favorite cathedral I've ever seen. Thanks @kevinwada for this cute idea! #Metsona pic.twitter.com/NUZoYuXKaH#MSWL
Can you imagine? Avatars of important buildings and cultural landmarks, who wear their façades like beautiful garments? Angkor Wat, the Great Pyramids, the Hagia Sophia, etc.—all walking the earth as mysteriously well-dressed humans?
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Yoshi Yoshitani @yoshisquared
Here's my #Metsona for @kevinwada's challenge!Inspired by the former persecution of the Catholic faith in Japan, and Catholic Samurai folk heroes like Amakusa Shirō
It's a complicated and nuanced part of Japanese, Catholic, political, and colonization history, read more! pic.twitter.com/zEF1WApjZ8
#MSWL
*lies on floor, envisions an epic tale of (possibly genderbent) warrior heroes, religious conflict, magic, nuanced takes on colonial politics, etc.*
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Oddly specific #MSWL: a story involving a contracts lawyer who specializes in genies, faeries, and other wish-granting entities.
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Leesha Hannigan @LeeshaHannigan
"Clarity" pic.twitter.com/IhOmTDCxAYThis artwork is incredible. I would buy a book with this warrior woman on the cover!
In other words, #MSWL: a fantasy novel with this protagonist.
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Sarah Guan @Sarah_Guan
Anyway, there are so many tropes about magical artifacts. How about a ring quest where the colonizers took all the gold—ring included? How about conquerors who couldn’t get the sword out of the stone, so they took the whole damn stone as a trophy, like with the Egyptian obelisks?How about an anticolonial twist on the scholar-hero who seeks “lost” or “underutilized” arcana from cultures not their own? #MSWL
Read this @hopkins_exhibit article on the questions that one #SFF work, #BlackPanther, asks of the museum studies field:
jhuexhibitionist.com/2018/02/22/why…
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E. TONG @_iwakeli_i
hey @guardian, i fixed your headline for you pic.twitter.com/p0Fu06bZgCI can’t stop thinking about this.
Someone write me a reverse, PoC Howard Carter #SFF novel where cultural artifacts are repatriated to their rightful inheritors. Give me the fantasy or future tech inverse heist novel. #MSWL twitter.com/_iwakeli_i/sta…
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lianne @ champion sad person @the_sad_gay
do u ever just ship two characters but as exes.. like u dont even care about how they were when they were together you just want them to have HistoryYES. Especially when exes have to be Mature Adults who interact with each other in professional, humane ways because there are things more important than their old ghosts—like winning a war, or negotiating a peace, or fixing an economy, or passing a law, or RAISING A CHILD. #MSWL
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Lauren Spieller @laurenspieller
BIG #MSWL for Crossover/Adult SFFI'm looking for a book that engages with the abuses perpetrated against indigenous people, in particular women, and the colonizer's legacy of violence and oppression.
Please spread the word. I need this book. The world needs this book.
YES. 100%. Would love to see a manuscript like this. #MSWL
Doesn’t need to be American, either. I know it’s an especially important conversation in our country right now—and to be clear, would LOVE this as a US-centric story—but this is a global issue.
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