by Esther Scherpenisse | J Mar 2026 | No category
I violently dislike using a cliche to convey my feelings. It doesn’t seem right for an author to rely on expressions that have been so thoroughly chewed on, rehashed, worn to death. But in this case, I have no other resource but to say: I can’t believe...
by Esther Scherpenisse | J Feb 2026 | No category
AI slop is everywhere. A YouTube video recently informed me half of the content on the internet is now created by AI instead of humans. And it’s good enough that we can’t always tell the difference between things generated by AI and generated by a human....
by Esther Scherpenisse | J Dec 2025 | No category
People say that writing is an act of defiance. And though I hear it often, the sentiment still sits a little oddly with me. Most writing probably pushes back against something—silence, confusion, the absence of a story you’d like to hear. But when I think about...
by Esther Scherpenisse | J Oct 2025 | No category
Somewhere between the cultural obsession with “harder punishments for crimes” and the flood of female fantasy characters who all know how to wield a sword, I started asking myself a question: is this really what we were going for? We’ve made progress, sure. Women now...
by Esther Scherpenisse | J Oct 2025 | No category
Some of science fiction’s dustiest paperbacks have become blockbuster blueprints. With the Dune films leading the way—and a third on the horizon—it’s clear that the genre’s classic era still casts a long shadow. That’s part of what drew me to the old stories in the...
