Link Love

Some thought provoking stuff this week.  Catherynne M. Valente on Christopher Priest and the Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist, Seanan McGuire on the importance of depicting non-heterosexual characters in fiction,  N.K. Jemison on stereotypes, these are some heavy hitters here.  Check 'em out.  Expand your brain.

• Joel Stein - Adults Should Read Adult Books

• Foz Meadows - Joel Stein Is A Sexist Ass

• Copyright isn't dead just because we're not willing to let it regulate us

• The Death of the Book

• In Defense of the Unhappy Ending

• Goodreads Fights Back Against Author Misbehavior

• There's no such thing as a good stereotype

• I See White People: Hunger Games and a Brief History of Cultural Whitewashing

• Some thoughts on Gender, Genre, and Reading

• Pick Your Poison: Sturgeon's Law and Why We Love Bad Fiction

• The Tears of Christopher Priest

• Seanan McGuire: Show, Don't Tell: Why they Need to Be There

• Australian Women Writer's: "In defense of books written by women for women"

• Who is the Route 29 Batman?  This Guy.

• Announcing the BEA 2012 Editors Buzz Line Up

• Book Blog UNCON