A review of the British Museum Mummies exhibition that I enjoyed reading.
Something upsetting that’s being talked about in the SFF world at the moment is to do with Marion Zimmer Bradley (author of “Mists of Avalon”, and the Darkover series), her second husband and the sexual abuse of children. Jim Hines has a post that summarises it here – I’ve read several more posts on the subject including some of the ones that he links, I’m mostly linking to his because it has those links. In brief – MZB’s second husband was a convicted child abuser both before & after she married him. She was aware of his continuing abuse of children, and didn’t find it a problem. Her daughter has also stated that MZB abused her throughout her early childhood. Thoroughly unpleasant. I own several Darkover books, all bought 15-20 years ago & re-read several times since. I’m not quite sure what I’ll do about them – on the one hand the art is not the artist and I liked those books a lot in the past, but on the other hand how much does knowing more context about the author change how I see the books? Not a question I currently have an answer to.
TV I’m recording this week:
- Lost Land of the Tiger – three part series (from 2010) looking for tigers in Bhutan.
- Tales from the Royal Wardrobe with Lucy Worsley – one-off programme about the last 400 years of the British monarchy, as seen through their clothes.