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Marion Zimmer Bradley–I think “Thendara House” is a better exploration of feminist issues.
Pamela Sargent–”The Shore of Women,” absolutely. That’s a book you really have to savor to get the full effect.
Ooo, much better. Very nice. Was that the question? I’m distracted by the way the CSS is still screwed up viewing here on my home computer, Firefox 2 on Windows. The header text is still so huge it boils over onto the tops of all the posts and makes it impossible to click the first comment on the right… Though I did just figure out that, although the text is frozen so that CTRL+ or – won’t resize it, a bunch of CTRL+ will at least make the leading in the comments wide enough that they can be read.
Snark!
But yeah, I really like the top image especially, good colors and appropriate. It seems like it’s a teeny bit too small, and wraps around by about 6 pixels on the right and 2 on the bottom, but you could call that art…
As for the actual question, how about getting away from the strict femsf, and writing about women or feminism in some non-femsf sf? Might be the usual “yeah, this book is good except for the bullshit”, but stirring up shit is kinda fun. Or writing about the books of conventional female SF authors.
Oh, wait. CTRL+ will, eventually, get me the option of making the text completely fucking enormous. I just don’t have the option of making it smaller than some set size, and that set size breaks the layout.
The header looks nice.
I’d be interested in reading your review of Russ’ “The Female Man.”
Okay Madeline, I’ll do at least one stirring up shit post. Can you think of a good one? Shall I read and eviscerate Twilight? How about…. oh…. Ringworld? Or Ringworld Engineers? I won’t have to re-read it. Unfortunately, I have it memorized!
Clear your cache or quit browser & reopen it. I bet that will reload the CSS properly. If not, email me!
Onward, to fall asleep gently riffling the pages of Shore of Women…
The witches and the dwarves in Terry Pratchett – or, how women only get to do things different from conventional feminine expectations if they (a) do everything the male dwarves do and look exactly like them, or (b) are witches. Basically. With reference to Monstrous Regiment, possibly, and what happened to the young girl who turned out to be a wizard in Equal Rites?
Yonmei you should write that one! Please! I am allergic to Pratchett; failed my impatience vs. twee roll, or something.
Harshing on Twilight, it’s been done… Why not harsh on its mother, Interview With the Vampire? Started that whole bullshit genre.
Or, the classic fantasy novel and the tiny number of cliched boxes available in it for female characters. I just finished Joe Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy, and at first I was amused by the way he came at the tired old cliches (Northern Barbarian and Ancient Wizard and Party go on Quest for Magic Maguffin) from a slightly different angle, but at the end when he fell into the cliche of “I don’t have to really resolve this… I could write another book/series” I lost patience with the whole schtick. That one had only the Feral Ex-Slave Fighter Chick and a Manipulative Sexified Rich Chick and a Damsel in Distress (albeit interesting Amy Winehouse-ish distress).
Oooh i love the stars!
I vote for a geoff ryman dissection.