Deusexmachinatio - deusexmachinatio.com - Andrea Phillips
General Information:
Latest News:
Fashion, Fake Geek Girls, and WorldCon 4 Aug 2013 | 09:12 pm
Let me preface this by saying this has been an extraordinarily difficult post to write. The terror is completely out of proportion to the actual magnitude of the topic; and that tells me there's somet...
Diesel Reboot 26 Jul 2013 | 10:28 pm
I've been pretty quiet about what I've been up to so far this year, aside from a few oblique references on Twitter to 'scripts' (still keeping that a secret) and 'fashion clients.' But the time has co...
Show Me the Money: The Copyleft Dilemma 18 Jul 2013 | 02:18 am
The copyleft movement is very fond of talking about the benefits of giving your art away for free. The theory is this: if you, as an independent artist, give away all your writing or music in digital ...
An Observation On My Experience of Sexism 11 Jul 2013 | 07:06 pm
I've been on something of a roll over the last couple of weeks, apparently. I made a pithy observation about a Texas politician during #istandwithwendy that was retweeted widely and Tumbled tens of th...
Why I Haven't Signed the Scalzi Pledge 10 Jul 2013 | 08:08 pm
John Scalzi, the famed science fiction novelist, all-around übermensch, and friend to the oppressed, recently made a pledge. He will neither speak at nor attend a convention that doesn't have a clearl...
Rights Grabs 9 Jul 2013 | 07:03 pm
I've been running into a problem a lot lately. It's this phrase, or ones just like it: "a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to exploit all copyrig...
Lucy in Cold, Hard Numbers 8 Jul 2013 | 07:25 pm
In the interests of sticking to my policy of aggressive transparency, I'd like to share with you my sales figures for the first two months (and episodes) of The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smoke...
Kickstarter and Profit 18 Jun 2013 | 05:33 pm
Once upon a time, I wrote a short story. It was a lovely short story, one of the finest pieces I'd ever written, but alas, I couldn't find a market to sell it to. Then one day, a shiny new toy came ou...
Barbie's Quiet Dignity and Progress 3 Jun 2013 | 05:44 pm
Some days it's easy to despair that sexism will ever be over. Let's take the latest SFWA* scandal. The upshot: Mike Resnick and Barry Malzberg, two icons of science fiction from yesteryear, made some...
Spots 15 May 2013 | 06:46 pm
I was walking through Times Square on a breezy, sunny spring day when my doctor called to tell me I had cancer. Finding out you have cancer seems like it should be a dramatic, life-altering moment, b...
