In january 2012, hines posted on his blog with the headline striking a pose women and fantasy covers, a discussion triggered by some of the poses in which female characters are drawn on the covers of books in his princess series. He gets into character by twisting his body into the same contorted positions as the female characters on the books. Jim hinesthe author who cancelled his ama due to reddit. Browse author series lists, sequels, pseudonyms, synopses, book covers, ratings and awards. The battle against sexist scifi and fantasy book covers. Hines, a fantasy author, is posing like some of the female characters on science fiction and fantasy book covers he says objectify women.
Though hines is a respected author of speculative fiction, hes best known for his viral collections of photographs that parody the gender tropes of fantasy and sciencefiction book covers. Hes a fantasy author, and hes just posted a blog details his latest adventures in imitating the poses of the worst excesses of cover art. Hines has been waging war against poorly photoshopped, exploitative fantasy and scifi novel covers for some time now, in the best way he. Youll receive the autographed paperback of tamora carter. At first, i thought about writing a long blog post, talking about how saturated we were with imagery that emphasized women as sexual objects at the expense of power, agency, realism, and so on. Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. With his photos, which he publishes on his blog, hines poses as women to show how they are depicted on covers in physically impossible or uncomfortable positions to make them sexually appealing. Hines in which we showcase the cover for terminal alliance, a brand new novel by jim c. Author jim hines covers his 2011 income in detail good.
Youll also get autographed copies of the first books in each of jim s four sff series, as well as the standalone tiein novel fable. There are lots of people who want to do something different which helps them in separating from the crowd and in making a different identity. He was the first sprinter to break 10 seconds in the 100 meter. Hines is an american author that is best known for his contribution to the fantasy genre. Cover posing in january of 2012, i decided that i wanted to talk about science fiction and fantasy cover art, particularly the ways women were portrayed.