“As a black woman,” Jemisin tells me, “I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful, the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change. With epic fantasy there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative, in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.”

Qell, he knows all about mineralogy, and geology, and astrology, and every thing a'most, except what he ought to know, and that is dollar-ology.

To prepare a shirt for pressing she sprinkled it with water and left it rolled up in a towel. When it was thoroughly redampened she ironed the collar first and then the shoulders, working down.

In the genotype, Lepralia auriculata the acleithral ooecium is marginally covered by a thick imperforate layer of secondary calcification, resulting in a reduced proximal area of exposed pseudoporous ectooecium; the secondary calcification never covers this exposed ectooecium, even in heavily calcified zooids.