Home / cultural issues cultural issues Blog C.S. Lewis Our Country: C.S. Lewis, Calormen, and How Fans Are Reclaiming the Fictionalized East By Nasim Mansuri January 24, 2022 Comment number: 24 Books Fantasy Honor, Life, and Jade: Cultural Resonance in Fonda Lee’s Jade City By Phoebe Low June 9, 2020 Comment number: 5 Blog cultural issues Why Are There So Few SFF Books About the Very Real Issue of Population Decline? By James Davis Nicoll June 11, 2018 Comment number: 100 Books The Wheel of Time Where Do You Belong if You Don’t Fit Anywhere? Cultural Deterioration and The Wheel of Time By Preeti Chhibber December 19, 2017 Comment number: 28 Featured Essays geek culture The Death of Adulthood in American Culture: Nerd Culture Edition By Lindsay Ellis September 23, 2014 Comment number: 50 Books Diversity in SFF Diversity Beyond Borders: A Conversation with Charles Tan By Sarah McCarry July 29, 2014 Comment number: 4 Blog cultural issues A Few Thoughts on Other Cultures and Diversity in SFF By Aliette de Bodard September 20, 2013 Comment number: 39 Blog Comics Introducing Simon Baz, the First Muslim-American Green Lantern By Shoshana Kessock September 17, 2012 Comment number: 6 Blog homosexuality George Takei Takes on Anti-Gay Tenn. Bill, Wins the Internet By Stubby the Rocket May 20, 2011 Comment number: 15