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SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION of The Female Man by Joanna Russhttps://astralcomputing.com/books/the-female-man-russ-easton-press
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SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION of The Female Man by Joanna Russhttps://astralcomputing.com/books/the-female-man-russ-easton-press
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SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION of The Female Man by Joanna Russhttps://astralcomputing.com/books/the-female-man-russ-easton-press
or see the full collection here:
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SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION of The Female Man by Joanna Russhttps://astralcomputing.com/books/the-female-man-russ-easton-press
or see the full collection here:
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Died this day: 04/29/2011 (b. 02/22/1937)
Joanna Russ was an American SF writer and feminist whose fiction reshaped the genre. Best known for the parallel-world novel The Female Man, she won the Nebula for When It Changed and the Hugo for Souls.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Russ
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Died this day: 04/29/2011 (b. 02/22/1937)
Joanna Russ was an American SF writer and feminist whose fiction reshaped the genre. Best known for the parallel-world novel The Female Man, she won the Nebula for When It Changed and the Hugo for Souls.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Russ
#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
@books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction #JoannaRuss @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefictionArt by Morgan Kane
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Died this day: 04/29/2011 (b. 02/22/1937)
Joanna Russ was an American SF writer and feminist whose fiction reshaped the genre. Best known for the parallel-world novel The Female Man, she won the Nebula for When It Changed and the Hugo for Souls.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Russ
#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
@books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction #JoannaRuss @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefictionArt by Morgan Kane
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Died this day: 04/29/2011 (b. 02/22/1937)
Joanna Russ was an American SF writer and feminist whose fiction reshaped the genre. Best known for the parallel-world novel The Female Man, she won the Nebula for When It Changed and the Hugo for Souls.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Russ
#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
@books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction #JoannaRuss @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefictionArt by Morgan Kane
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Born this day: 02/22/1937 (d. 04/29/2011)
Joanna Russ was an essential American SF writer who fused feminism with formal daring. Her Nebula-winning "When It Changed" envisioned an all-female world disrupted by male arrival. The Female Man fractured narrative across parallel realities. Her novella "Souls" won Hugo and Locus awards.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Russ
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Born this day: 02/22/1937 (d. 04/29/2011)
Joanna Russ was an essential American SF writer who fused feminism with formal daring. Her Nebula-winning "When It Changed" envisioned an all-female world disrupted by male arrival. The Female Man fractured narrative across parallel realities. Her novella "Souls" won Hugo and Locus awards.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Russ
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RE: https://bookstodon.com/@astralcomputing/114048406318089284
Born this day: 02/22/1937 (d. 04/29/2011)
Joanna Russ was an essential American SF writer who fused feminism with formal daring. Her Nebula-winning "When It Changed" envisioned an all-female world disrupted by male arrival. The Female Man fractured narrative across parallel realities. Her novella "Souls" won Hugo and Locus awards.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Russ
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RE: https://bookstodon.com/@astralcomputing/114048406318089284
Born this day: 02/22/1937 (d. 04/29/2011)
Joanna Russ was an essential American SF writer who fused feminism with formal daring. Her Nebula-winning "When It Changed" envisioned an all-female world disrupted by male arrival. The Female Man fractured narrative across parallel realities. Her novella "Souls" won Hugo and Locus awards.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Russ
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♀️ Vi siete mai chiesti perché la scrittura maschile è considerata universale mentre quella femminile "di nicchia"? In questo importante saggio Joanna Russ, fantascientista e critica letteraria, ci spiega perché.
Ringrazio @enciclopedia.delle.donne per il supporto.
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♀️ Vi siete mai chiesti perché la scrittura maschile è considerata universale mentre quella femminile "di nicchia"? In questo importante saggio Joanna Russ, fantascientista e critica letteraria, ci spiega perché.
Ringrazio @enciclopedia.delle.donne per il supporto.
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♀️ Vi siete mai chiesti perché la scrittura maschile è considerata universale mentre quella femminile "di nicchia"? In questo importante saggio Joanna Russ, fantascientista e critica letteraria, ci spiega perché.
Ringrazio @enciclopedia.delle.donne per il supporto.
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♀️ Vi siete mai chiesti perché la scrittura maschile è considerata universale mentre quella femminile "di nicchia"? In questo importante saggio Joanna Russ, fantascientista e critica letteraria, ci spiega perché.
Ringrazio @enciclopedia.delle.donne per il supporto.
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Vietato scrivere, Joanna Russ
Titolo: Vietato scrivere, come soffocare la scrittura delle donneTitolo originale: How to suppress women's writingAutor*: Joanna Russ Editore: Enciclopedia delle donne Anno d'uscita: 2021 Traduttor*: Dafne Calgaro e Chiara Reali È da tempo che rifletto sui concetti di letteratura alta vs. letteratura bassa e di come la scrittura femminile spesso venga fatta rientrare nella seconda categoria. Vi siete mai chiesti perché i nomi femminili nelle antologie scolastiche siano così pochi? È […] -
Vietato scrivere, Joanna Russ
Titolo: Vietato scrivere, come soffocare la scrittura delle donneTitolo originale: How to suppress women's writingAutor*: Joanna Russ Editore: Enciclopedia delle donne Anno d'uscita: 2021 Traduttor*: Dafne Calgaro e Chiara Reali È da tempo che rifletto sui concetti di letteratura alta vs. letteratura bassa e di come la scrittura femminile spesso venga fatta rientrare nella seconda categoria. Vi siete mai chiesti perché i nomi femminili nelle antologie scolastiche siano così pochi? È […] -
Kann ja nicht die ganze Zeit nur Grummel-förderliche Sachbücher über Ausbeutung und Krieg lesen.
Hab also mit den Alyx-Geschichten von #JoannaRuss begonnen und viel Spaß damit.
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVII https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/29/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xxvii/ #1950s, #1960s, #1970s, #AlgisBudrys, #Avant-garde, #BookReview, #BookReviews, #Books, #Fiction, #JoannaRuss, #JohnChristopher, #LangdonJones, #Paperbacks, #Reading, #Sci-fi, #ScienceFiction, #Writing
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVII https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/29/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xxvii/ #1950s, #1960s, #1970s, #AlgisBudrys, #Avant-garde, #BookReview, #BookReviews, #Books, #Fiction, #JoannaRuss, #JohnChristopher, #LangdonJones, #Paperbacks, #Reading, #Sci-fi, #ScienceFiction, #Writing
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVII https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/29/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xxvii/ #1950s, #1960s, #1970s, #AlgisBudrys, #Avant-garde, #BookReview, #BookReviews, #Books, #Fiction, #JoannaRuss, #JohnChristopher, #LangdonJones, #Paperbacks, #Reading, #Sci-fi, #ScienceFiction, #Writing
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVII https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/29/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xxvii/ #1950s, #1960s, #1970s, #AlgisBudrys, #Avant-garde, #BookReview, #BookReviews, #Books, #Fiction, #JoannaRuss, #JohnChristopher, #LangdonJones, #Paperbacks, #Reading, #Sci-fi, #ScienceFiction, #Writing
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVII https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/29/what-pre-1985-science-fiction-are-you-reading-update-no-xxvii/ #1950s, #1960s, #1970s, #AlgisBudrys, #Avant-garde, #BookReview, #BookReviews, #Books, #Fiction, #JoannaRuss, #JohnChristopher, #LangdonJones, #Paperbacks, #Reading, #Sci-fi, #ScienceFiction, #Writing
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVII
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the October installment of this column.
- A selection of read volumes from my shelves
If I’m feeling a bit unmotivated to write about science fiction, I always end up on Fanac or another online repository of fanzines/newspapers exploring all the old historical fannish debates. I especially enjoy their reports on various conventions and the community (from accepting to reactionary) that emerges. For example, the details I uncovered about a lost Philip José Farmer speech titled “SF and the Kinsey Report at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention (Philcon 2) in Philadelphia (September 1953) and Pat M. Kuras and Rob Schmieder’s article “When It Changed: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Science Fiction Fandom” (1980) on the first Worldcon panel with an openly LGBTQ topic: “The Closed Open Mind: Homophobia in Science Fiction Fantasy Stories” moderated by Jerry Jacks, one of the “early openly gay fans.” I recently edited a friend’s article for academic publication on the role of conventions in forming feminist and political activism. Conventions sound like fascinating places, at least from my historically-minded vantage point and lens.
However, as visitors to the site probably know, I’ve never attended a science fiction specific con (I’ve attended Gencon twice as its in my current hometown and tons of academic conferences earlier in my career). For fear of revealing too much of my psychological profile (muahaha), I enjoy the self-created illusion of being an outsider. The scholar who writes from the shadows. I often tell myself “I’m a historian, not a fan.” Of course, both can be true… I know cons cover a vast variety of topics beyond contemporary science fiction (which does not interest me in the slightest, alas). There are frequently panels on all the topics, authors, and themes I enjoy. And of course, all the friendships with fans with similar interests… As meeting authors? Not my thing, sorry. Well-meaning readers of my website often attempt to invite me to participate on panels on historical topics. Thank you! Maybe at one point I will. I really should.
I’d love to know why you, lovely readers, enjoy attending cons.
Also, before we get to the photograph above and the curated birthdays, let me know what pre-1985 SF you’re currently reading or planning to read!
The Photograph (with links to reviews and brief thoughts)
- I suspect I’ve featured Langdon Jones’ wonderful collection The Eye of the Lens (1972) before. It’s an example of the exuberant (and successful) elements of the New Wave movement. “The Hall of the Machines” (1968) represents what I enjoy most lates 60s SF.
- Algis Budrys’ Rogue Moon (1960). A good one! I wish I managed to write a full-length review.
- Joanna Russ’ We Who Are About To…. (1976). Remains my favorite Russ novel.
- John Christopher’s A Wrinkle in the Skin (variant title: The Ragged Edge) (1965). I preferred this post-apocalyptic nightmare to The Death of Grass (1956). The scene with the tanker stranded in the dried-out English Channel, top notch…
What am I writing about?
I recently restarted my series on translated SF short fiction—after a lull on my part–with Rachel S. Cordasco over at Speculative Fiction in Translation. We thoroughly enjoyed Izumi Suzuki’s “Terminal Boredom” (1984). Up next– a story from Germany!
Despite a slow writing month, I did manage to put together my first full-length review of Octavia E. Butler’s Clay’s Ark (1984). My favorite of her novels so far! There’s some solid early 80s SF out there.
What am I reading?
My reading of various forms of American leftist politics continues. Finished Mathew Hild’s Greenbackers, Knight of Labor, and Populist: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South (2007). There’s a larger incubatory SF-related writing project looming that will connect to late 19th century attempts to challenge Southern Democrats. Simultaneously, as I teach college-level American History courses I felt that that portion of my classes needed some work. Stay tuned!
Most of my reading has been related to the scholarship related to my unnamed writing project. However, I finally finished my Kim Stanley Robinson novel and should (I know, I promised the same thing a while back) have a review up soon(ish). A vampiric cloud of despair–generated by American politics, the challenges of my job, etc.–continues to consume my energy.
A Curated List of SF Birthdays from the Last Two Weeks [names link to The Internet Speculative Fiction Database for bibliographical info]
November 15th: William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). I recently acquired a copy of The House on the Borderland (1908).
November 15th: J. G. Ballard (1930-2009). A favorite of mine.
November 16th: Candas Jane Dorsey (1952-). There’s a copy of Machine Sex and Other Stories (1988) judging me from the shelves.
- Diane and Leo Dillon’s cover for the 1971 1st edition
November 18th: Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015). I’ve reviewed At the Seventh Level (1972) and Furthest (1971).
November 18th: Margaret Atwood (1939-).
November 18th: Frederick Turner (1943).
November 18th: Alan Dean Foster (1946-).
November 18th: Graham Charnock (1946-). One of the British voices of the New Wave movement. I’ve only read “The Chinese Boxes” (1970).
- Mark Salwowski’s cover for the 1989 edition
November 18th: Michael Swanwick (1950-). I read my first Swanwick novel last year–In the Drift (1985).
November 19th: Wolfgang Jeschke (1936-2015). A Czech-born German SF author whom I really should read… I own his translated novel The Last Day of Creation (1981, trans. 1982).
November 20th: Molly Gloss (1944-). The Dazzle of the Day (1997) is supposed to be a really great take on the generation ship premise (outside of my date range, alas).
November 21st: Artist Vincent Di Fate (1945-).
- Ken Laidlaw’s cover for the 1977 edition
November 22nd: William Kotzwinkle (1938-). Doctor Rat (1976) still unsettles me.
November 23rd: Wilson Tucker (1914-2006). Huge fan of The Long Loud Silence (1952, rev. 1969) — one of the better nuclear-war themed 50s novels. I must get to more of his work in 2026…
November 24th: Editor T. O’Conor Sloane, Ph.D. (1851-1940). The editor of Amazing between 1929-1938.
November 24th: Spider Robinson (1948-).
November 25th: Amelia Reynolds Long (1904-1978). An earlier female SF pioneer, I’ve only read Long’s “Omega” (1932). Unfortunately, my dislike of 30s SF informs my comments — regardless, she’s a historically important figure.
November 25th: Poul Anderson (1926-2001). One of the authors of the first years of my website. I’ve covered eleven novels and twenty-six of his short stories. Most recently I featured “The Troublemakers” (1953) in my generation ship review series.
November 26th: Leonard Tushnet (1908-1973)
November 26th: Artist Victoria Poyser (1949-).
November 27th: L. Sprague de Camp (1907-2000).
November 27th: C. C. MacApp (1917-1971)
- Uncredited cover for the 1965 edition
November 27th: Dave Wallis (1917-1990). I thoroughly enjoyed his sole SF novel Only Lovers Left Alive (1964).
November 27th: Artist Josh Kirby (1928-2001). Perhaps best known for his Discworld covers, Kirby was a prolific contributor of art for a vast variety of authors.
November 28th: Richard R. Smith (1930-). A prolific contributor to the magazines in the 1950s, I’ve yet to read his work.
November 28th: Artist Walter Velez (1939-2018).
- MacGowan’s interior art for Gregory Benford’s “Nobody Lives Around There” in Vertex: The Magazine of Science Fiction (February 1974)
November 28th: Editor and author Donald J. Pfeil (1937-1989). Best known for editing Vertex (1973-1975).
November 29th: C. S. Lewis (1898-1963).
November 29th: Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007). If you haven’t read about the L’Engle great cover mystery, you should!
November 29th: Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. (1950-2012).
November 29th: Artist Doug Beekman (1952-).
For book reviews consult the INDEX
For cover art posts consult the INDEX
For TV and film reviews consult the INDEX
#1950s #1960s #1970s #algisBudrys #avantGarde #bookReview #bookReviews #books #fiction #joannaRuss #johnChristopher #langdonJones #paperbacks #reading #sciFi #scienceFiction #writing
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVII
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the October installment of this column.
- A selection of read volumes from my shelves
If I’m feeling a bit unmotivated to write about science fiction, I always end up on Fanac or another online repository of fanzines/newspapers and dive into all the old historical fannish debates. I especially enjoy their reports on various conventions and the community (from accepting to reactionary) that emerges. For example, the details I uncovered about a lost Philip José Farmer speech titled “SF and the Kinsey Report at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention (Philcon 2) in Philadelphia (September 1953) and Pat M. Kuras and Rob Schmieder’s article “When It Changed: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Science Fiction Fandom” (1980) on the first Worldcon panel with an openly LGBTQ topic: “The Closed Open Mind: Homophobia in Science Fiction Fantasy Stories” moderated by Jerry Jacks, one of the “early openly gay fans.” I recently edited an article for academic publication on the role of conventions in forming feminist and political activism. Conventions sound like fascinating places, at least from my historically-minded vantage point and lens.
However, as visitors to the site probably know, I’ve never attended a science fiction specific con (I’ve attended Gencon twice as its in my current hometown and tons of academic conferences earlier in my career). For fear of revealing too much of my psychological profile (muahaha), I enjoy the self-created illusion of being an outsider. The scholar who writes from the shadows. I often tell myself “I’m a historian, not a fan.” Of course, both can be true… I know cons cover a vast variety of topics beyond contemporary science fiction (which does not interest me in the slightest, alas). There are frequently panels on all the topics, authors, and themes I enjoy. And of course, all the friendships with fans with similar interests… As meeting authors? Not my thing, sorry. Well-meaning readers of my website often attempt to invite me to participate on panels on historical topics. Thank you! Maybe at one point I will. I really should.
I’d love to know why you, lovely readers, enjoy attending cons.
Also, before we get to the photograph above and the curated birthdays, let me know what pre-1985 SF you’re currently reading or planning to read!
The Photograph (with links to reviews and brief thoughts)
- I suspect I’ve featured Langdon Jones’ wonderful collection The Eye of the Lens (1972) before. It’s an example of the exuberant (and successful) elements of the New Wave movement. “The Hall of the Machines” (1968) represents what I enjoy most lates 60s SF.
- Algis Budrys’ Rogue Moon (1960). A good one! I wish I managed to write a full-length review.
- Joanna Russ’ We Who Are About To…. (1976). Remains my favorite Russ novel.
- John Christopher’s A Wrinkle in the Skin (variant title: The Ragged Edge) (1965). I preferred this post-apocalyptic nightmare to The Death of Grass (1956). The scene with the tanker stranded in the dried-out English Channel, top notch…
What am I writing about?
I recently restarted my series on translated SF short fiction—after a lull on my part–with Rachel S. Cordasco over at Speculative Fiction in Translation. We thoroughly enjoyed Izumi Suzuki’s “Terminal Boredom” (1984). Up next– a story from Germany!
Despite a slow writing month, I did manage to put together my first full-length review of Octavia E. Butler’s Clay’s Ark (1984). My favorite of her novels so far! There’s some solid early 80s SF out there.
What am I reading?
My reading of various forms of American leftist politics continues. Finished Mathew Hild’s Greenbackers, Knight of Labor, and Populist: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South (2007). There’s a larger incubatory SF-related writing project looming that will connect to late 19th century attempts to challenge Southern Democrats. Simultaneously, as I teach college-level American History courses I felt that that portion of my classes needed some work. Stay tuned!
Most of my reading has been related to the scholarship related to my unnamed writing project. However, I finally finished my Kim Stanley Robinson novel and should (I know, I promised the same thing a while back) have a review up soon(ish). A vampiric cloud of despair–generated by American politics, the challenges of my job, etc.–continues to consume my energy.
A Curated List of SF Birthdays from the Last Two Weeks [names link to The Internet Speculative Fiction Database for bibliographical info]
November 15th: William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). I recently acquired a copy of The House on the Borderland (1908).
November 15th: J. G. Ballard (1930-2009). A favorite of mine.
November 16th: Candas Jane Dorsey (1952-). There’s a copy of Machine Sex and Other Stories (1988) judging me from the shelves.
- Diane and Leo Dillon’s cover for the 1971 1st edition
November 18th: Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015). I’ve reviewed At the Seventh Level (1972) and Furthest (1971).
November 18th: Margaret Atwood (1939-).
November 18th: Frederick Turner (1943).
November 18th: Alan Dean Foster (1946-).
November 18th: Graham Charnock (1946-). One of the British voices of the New Wave movement. I’ve only read “The Chinese Boxes” (1970).
- Mark Salwowski’s cover for the 1989 edition
November 18th: Michael Swanwick (1950-). I read my first Swanwick novel last year–In the Drift (1985).
November 19th: Wolfgang Jeschke (1936-2015). A Czech-born German SF author whom I really should read… I own his translated novel The Last Day of Creation (1981, trans. 1982).
November 20th: Molly Gloss (1944-). The Dazzle of the Day (1997) is supposed to be a really great take on the generation ship premise (outside of my date range, alas).
November 21st: Artist Vincent Di Fate (1945-).
- Ken Laidlaw’s cover for the 1977 edition
November 22nd: William Kotzwinkle (1938-). Doctor Rat (1976) still unsettles me.
November 23rd: Wilson Tucker (1914-2006). Huge fan of The Long Loud Silence (1952, rev. 1969) — one of the better nuclear-war themed 50s novels. I must get to more of his work in 2026…
November 24th: Editor T. O’Conor Sloane, Ph.D. (1851-1940). The editor of Amazing between 1929-1938.
November 24th: Spider Robinson (1948-).
November 25th: Amelia Reynolds Long (1904-1978). An earlier female SF pioneer, I’ve only read Long’s “Omega” (1932). Unfortunately, my dislike of 30s SF informs my comments — regardless, she’s a historically important figure.
November 25th: Poul Anderson (1926-2001). One of the authors of the first years of my website. I’ve covered eleven novels and twenty-six of his short stories. Most recently I featured “The Troublemakers” (1953) in my generation ship review series.
November 26th: Leonard Tushnet (1908-1973)
November 26th: Artist Victoria Poyser (1949-).
November 27th: L. Sprague de Camp (1907-2000).
November 27th: C. C. MacApp (1917-1971)
- Uncredited cover for the 1965 edition
November 27th: Dave Wallis (1917-1990). I thoroughly enjoyed his sole SF novel Only Lovers Left Alive (1964).
November 27th: Artist Josh Kirby (1928-2001). Perhaps best known for his Discworld covers, Kirby was a prolific contributor of art for a vast variety of authors.
November 28th: Richard R. Smith (1930-). A prolific contributor to the magazines in the 1950s, I’ve yet to read his work.
November 28th: Artist Walter Velez (1939-2018).
- MacGowan’s interior art for Gregory Benford’s “Nobody Lives Around There” in Vertex: The Magazine of Science Fiction (February 1974)
November 28th: Editor and author Donald J. Pfeil (1937-1989). Best known for editing Vertex (1973-1975).
November 29th: C. S. Lewis (1898-1963).
November 29th: Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007). If you haven’t read about the L’Engle great cover mystery, you should!
November 29th: Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. (1950-2012).
November 29th: Artist Doug Beekman (1952-).
For book reviews consult the INDEX
For cover art posts consult the INDEX
For TV and film reviews consult the INDEX
#1950s #1960s #1970s #algisBudrys #avantGarde #bookReview #bookReviews2 #books #fiction #joannaRuss #johnChristopher #langdonJones #paperbacks #reading #sciFi #scienceFiction #writing
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVII
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the October installment of this column.
- A selection of read volumes from my shelves
If I’m feeling a bit unmotivated to write about science fiction, I always end up on Fanac or another online repository of fanzines/newspapers and dive into all the old historical fannish debates. I especially enjoy their reports on various conventions and the community (from accepting to reactionary) that emerges. For example, the details I uncovered about a lost Philip José Farmer speech titled “SF and the Kinsey Report at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention (Philcon 2) in Philadelphia (September 1953) and Pat M. Kuras and Rob Schmieder’s article “When It Changed: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Science Fiction Fandom” (1980) on the first Worldcon panel with an openly LGBTQ topic: “The Closed Open Mind: Homophobia in Science Fiction Fantasy Stories” moderated by Jerry Jacks, one of the “early openly gay fans.” I recently edited an article for academic publication on the role of conventions in forming feminist and political activism. Conventions sound like fascinating places, at least from my historically-minded vantage point and lens.
However, as visitors to the site probably know, I’ve never attended a science fiction specific con (I’ve attended Gencon twice as its in my current hometown and tons of academic conferences earlier in my career). For fear of revealing too much of my psychological profile (muahaha), I enjoy the self-created illusion of being an outsider. The scholar who writes from the shadows. I often tell myself “I’m a historian, not a fan.” Of course, both can be true… I know cons cover a vast variety of topics beyond contemporary science fiction (which does not interest me in the slightest, alas). There are frequently panels on all the topics, authors, and themes I enjoy. And of course, all the friendships with fans with similar interests… As meeting authors? Not my thing, sorry. Well-meaning readers of my website often attempt to invite me to participate on panels on historical topics. Thank you! Maybe at one point I will. I really should.
I’d love to know why you, lovely readers, enjoy attending cons.
Also, before we get to the photograph above and the curated birthdays, let me know what pre-1985 SF you’re currently reading or planning to read!
The Photograph (with links to reviews and brief thoughts)
- I suspect I’ve featured Langdon Jones’ wonderful collection The Eye of the Lens (1972) before. It’s an example of the exuberant (and successful) elements of the New Wave movement. “The Hall of the Machines” (1968) represents what I enjoy most lates 60s SF.
- Algis Budrys’ Rogue Moon (1960). A good one! I wish I managed to write a full-length review.
- Joanna Russ’ We Who Are About To…. (1976). Remains my favorite Russ novel.
- John Christopher’s A Wrinkle in the Skin (variant title: The Ragged Edge) (1965). I preferred this post-apocalyptic nightmare to The Death of Grass (1956). The scene with the tanker stranded in the dried-out English Channel, top notch…
What am I writing about?
I recently restarted my series on translated SF short fiction—after a lull on my part–with Rachel S. Cordasco over at Speculative Fiction in Translation. We thoroughly enjoyed Izumi Suzuki’s “Terminal Boredom” (1984). Up next– a story from Germany!
Despite a slow writing month, I did manage to put together my first full-length review of Octavia E. Butler’s Clay’s Ark (1984). My favorite of her novels so far! There’s some solid early 80s SF out there.
What am I reading?
My reading of various forms of American leftist politics continues. Finished Mathew Hild’s Greenbackers, Knight of Labor, and Populist: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South (2007). There’s a larger incubatory SF-related writing project looming that will connect to late 19th century attempts to challenge Southern Democrats. Simultaneously, as I teach college-level American History courses I felt that that portion of my classes needed some work. Stay tuned!
Most of my reading has been related to the scholarship related to my unnamed writing project. However, I finally finished my Kim Stanley Robinson novel and should (I know, I promised the same thing a while back) have a review up soon(ish). A vampiric cloud of despair–generated by American politics, the challenges of my job, etc.–continues to consume my energy.
A Curated List of SF Birthdays from the Last Two Weeks [names link to The Internet Speculative Fiction Database for bibliographical info]
November 15th: William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). I recently acquired a copy of The House on the Borderland (1908).
November 15th: J. G. Ballard (1930-2009). A favorite of mine.
November 16th: Candas Jane Dorsey (1952-). There’s a copy of Machine Sex and Other Stories (1988) judging me from the shelves.
- Diane and Leo Dillon’s cover for the 1971 1st edition
November 18th: Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015). I’ve reviewed At the Seventh Level (1972) and Furthest (1971).
November 18th: Margaret Atwood (1939-).
November 18th: Frederick Turner (1943).
November 18th: Alan Dean Foster (1946-).
November 18th: Graham Charnock (1946-). One of the British voices of the New Wave movement. I’ve only read “The Chinese Boxes” (1970).
- Mark Salwowski’s cover for the 1989 edition
November 18th: Michael Swanwick (1950-). I read my first Swanwick novel last year–In the Drift (1985).
November 19th: Wolfgang Jeschke (1936-2015). A Czech-born German SF author whom I really should read… I own his translated novel The Last Day of Creation (1981, trans. 1982).
November 20th: Molly Gloss (1944-). The Dazzle of the Day (1997) is supposed to be a really great take on the generation ship premise (outside of my date range, alas).
November 21st: Artist Vincent Di Fate (1945-).
- Ken Laidlaw’s cover for the 1977 edition
November 22nd: William Kotzwinkle (1938-). Doctor Rat (1976) still unsettles me.
November 23rd: Wilson Tucker (1914-2006). Huge fan of The Long Loud Silence (1952, rev. 1969) — one of the better nuclear-war themed 50s novels. I must get to more of his work in 2026…
November 24th: Editor T. O’Conor Sloane, Ph.D. (1851-1940). The editor of Amazing between 1929-1938.
November 24th: Spider Robinson (1948-).
November 25th: Amelia Reynolds Long (1904-1978). An earlier female SF pioneer, I’ve only read Long’s “Omega” (1932). Unfortunately, my dislike of 30s SF informs my comments — regardless, she’s a historically important figure.
November 25th: Poul Anderson (1926-2001). One of the authors of the first years of my website. I’ve covered eleven novels and twenty-six of his short stories. Most recently I featured “The Troublemakers” (1953) in my generation ship review series.
November 26th: Leonard Tushnet (1908-1973)
November 26th: Artist Victoria Poyser (1949-).
November 27th: L. Sprague de Camp (1907-2000).
November 27th: C. C. MacApp (1917-1971)
- Uncredited cover for the 1965 edition
November 27th: Dave Wallis (1917-1990). I thoroughly enjoyed his sole SF novel Only Lovers Left Alive (1964).
November 27th: Artist Josh Kirby (1928-2001). Perhaps best known for his Discworld covers, Kirby was a prolific contributor of art for a vast variety of authors.
November 28th: Richard R. Smith (1930-). A prolific contributor to the magazines in the 1950s, I’ve yet to read his work.
November 28th: Artist Walter Velez (1939-2018).
- MacGowan’s interior art for Gregory Benford’s “Nobody Lives Around There” in Vertex: The Magazine of Science Fiction (February 1974)
November 28th: Editor and author Donald J. Pfeil (1937-1989). Best known for editing Vertex (1973-1975).
November 29th: C. S. Lewis (1898-1963).
November 29th: Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007). If you haven’t read about the L’Engle great cover mystery, you should!
November 29th: Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. (1950-2012).
November 29th: Artist Doug Beekman (1952-).
For book reviews consult the INDEX
For cover art posts consult the INDEX
For TV and film reviews consult the INDEX
#1950s #1960s #1970s #algisBudrys #avantGarde #bookReview #bookReviews2 #books #fiction #joannaRuss #johnChristopher #langdonJones #paperbacks #reading #sciFi #scienceFiction #writing
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVII
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the October installment of this column.
- A selection of read volumes from my shelves
If I’m feeling a bit unmotivated to write about science fiction, I always end up on Fanac or another online repository of fanzines/newspapers exploring all the old historical fannish debates. I especially enjoy their reports on various conventions and the community (from accepting to reactionary) that emerges. For example, the details I uncovered about a lost Philip José Farmer speech titled “SF and the Kinsey Report at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention (Philcon 2) in Philadelphia (September 1953) and Pat M. Kuras and Rob Schmieder’s article “When It Changed: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Science Fiction Fandom” (1980) on the first Worldcon panel with an openly LGBTQ topic: “The Closed Open Mind: Homophobia in Science Fiction Fantasy Stories” moderated by Jerry Jacks, one of the “early openly gay fans.” I recently edited a friend’s article for academic publication on the role of conventions in forming feminist and political activism. Conventions sound like fascinating places, at least from my historically-minded vantage point and lens.
However, as visitors to the site probably know, I’ve never attended a science fiction specific con (I’ve attended Gencon twice as its in my current hometown and tons of academic conferences earlier in my career). For fear of revealing too much of my psychological profile (muahaha), I enjoy the self-created illusion of being an outsider. The scholar who writes from the shadows. I often tell myself “I’m a historian, not a fan.” Of course, both can be true… I know cons cover a vast variety of topics beyond contemporary science fiction (which does not interest me in the slightest, alas). There are frequently panels on all the topics, authors, and themes I enjoy. And of course, all the friendships with fans with similar interests… As meeting authors? Not my thing, sorry. Well-meaning readers of my website often attempt to invite me to participate on panels on historical topics. Thank you! Maybe at one point I will. I really should.
I’d love to know why you, lovely readers, enjoy attending cons.
Also, before we get to the photograph above and the curated birthdays, let me know what pre-1985 SF you’re currently reading or planning to read!
The Photograph (with links to reviews and brief thoughts)
- I suspect I’ve featured Langdon Jones’ wonderful collection The Eye of the Lens (1972) before. It’s an example of the exuberant (and successful) elements of the New Wave movement. “The Hall of the Machines” (1968) represents what I enjoy most lates 60s SF.
- Algis Budrys’ Rogue Moon (1960). A good one! I wish I managed to write a full-length review.
- Joanna Russ’ We Who Are About To…. (1976). Remains my favorite Russ novel.
- John Christopher’s A Wrinkle in the Skin (variant title: The Ragged Edge) (1965). I preferred this post-apocalyptic nightmare to The Death of Grass (1956). The scene with the tanker stranded in the dried-out English Channel, top notch…
What am I writing about?
I recently restarted my series on translated SF short fiction—after a lull on my part–with Rachel S. Cordasco over at Speculative Fiction in Translation. We thoroughly enjoyed Izumi Suzuki’s “Terminal Boredom” (1984). Up next– a story from Germany!
Despite a slow writing month, I did manage to put together my first full-length review of Octavia E. Butler’s Clay’s Ark (1984). My favorite of her novels so far! There’s some solid early 80s SF out there.
What am I reading?
My reading of various forms of American leftist politics continues. Finished Mathew Hild’s Greenbackers, Knight of Labor, and Populist: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South (2007). There’s a larger incubatory SF-related writing project looming that will connect to late 19th century attempts to challenge Southern Democrats. Simultaneously, as I teach college-level American History courses I felt that that portion of my classes needed some work. Stay tuned!
Most of my reading has been related to the scholarship related to my unnamed writing project. However, I finally finished my Kim Stanley Robinson novel and should (I know, I promised the same thing a while back) have a review up soon(ish). A vampiric cloud of despair–generated by American politics, the challenges of my job, etc.–continues to consume my energy.
A Curated List of SF Birthdays from the Last Two Weeks [names link to The Internet Speculative Fiction Database for bibliographical info]
November 15th: William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). I recently acquired a copy of The House on the Borderland (1908).
November 15th: J. G. Ballard (1930-2009). A favorite of mine.
November 16th: Candas Jane Dorsey (1952-). There’s a copy of Machine Sex and Other Stories (1988) judging me from the shelves.
- Diane and Leo Dillon’s cover for the 1971 1st edition
November 18th: Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015). I’ve reviewed At the Seventh Level (1972) and Furthest (1971).
November 18th: Margaret Atwood (1939-).
November 18th: Frederick Turner (1943).
November 18th: Alan Dean Foster (1946-).
November 18th: Graham Charnock (1946-). One of the British voices of the New Wave movement. I’ve only read “The Chinese Boxes” (1970).
- Mark Salwowski’s cover for the 1989 edition
November 18th: Michael Swanwick (1950-). I read my first Swanwick novel last year–In the Drift (1985).
November 19th: Wolfgang Jeschke (1936-2015). A Czech-born German SF author whom I really should read… I own his translated novel The Last Day of Creation (1981, trans. 1982).
November 20th: Molly Gloss (1944-). The Dazzle of the Day (1997) is supposed to be a really great take on the generation ship premise (outside of my date range, alas).
November 21st: Artist Vincent Di Fate (1945-).
- Ken Laidlaw’s cover for the 1977 edition
November 22nd: William Kotzwinkle (1938-). Doctor Rat (1976) still unsettles me.
November 23rd: Wilson Tucker (1914-2006). Huge fan of The Long Loud Silence (1952, rev. 1969) — one of the better nuclear-war themed 50s novels. I must get to more of his work in 2026…
November 24th: Editor T. O’Conor Sloane, Ph.D. (1851-1940). The editor of Amazing between 1929-1938.
November 24th: Spider Robinson (1948-).
November 25th: Amelia Reynolds Long (1904-1978). An earlier female SF pioneer, I’ve only read Long’s “Omega” (1932). Unfortunately, my dislike of 30s SF informs my comments — regardless, she’s a historically important figure.
November 25th: Poul Anderson (1926-2001). One of the authors of the first years of my website. I’ve covered eleven novels and twenty-six of his short stories. Most recently I featured “The Troublemakers” (1953) in my generation ship review series.
November 26th: Leonard Tushnet (1908-1973)
November 26th: Artist Victoria Poyser (1949-).
November 27th: L. Sprague de Camp (1907-2000).
November 27th: C. C. MacApp (1917-1971)
- Uncredited cover for the 1965 edition
November 27th: Dave Wallis (1917-1990). I thoroughly enjoyed his sole SF novel Only Lovers Left Alive (1964).
November 27th: Artist Josh Kirby (1928-2001). Perhaps best known for his Discworld covers, Kirby was a prolific contributor of art for a vast variety of authors.
November 28th: Richard R. Smith (1930-). A prolific contributor to the magazines in the 1950s, I’ve yet to read his work.
November 28th: Artist Walter Velez (1939-2018).
- MacGowan’s interior art for Gregory Benford’s “Nobody Lives Around There” in Vertex: The Magazine of Science Fiction (February 1974)
November 28th: Editor and author Donald J. Pfeil (1937-1989). Best known for editing Vertex (1973-1975).
November 29th: C. S. Lewis (1898-1963).
November 29th: Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007). If you haven’t read about the L’Engle great cover mystery, you should!
November 29th: Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. (1950-2012).
November 29th: Artist Doug Beekman (1952-).
For book reviews consult the INDEX
For cover art posts consult the INDEX
For TV and film reviews consult the INDEX
#1950s #1960s #1970s #algisBudrys #avantGarde #bookReview #bookReviews #books #fiction #joannaRuss #johnChristopher #langdonJones #paperbacks #reading #sciFi #scienceFiction #writing
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVII
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the October installment of this column.
- A selection of read volumes from my shelves
If I’m feeling a bit unmotivated to write about science fiction, I always end up on Fanac or another online repository of fanzines/newspapers and dive into all the old historical fannish debates. I especially enjoy their reports on various conventions and the community (from accepting to reactionary) that emerges. For example, the details I uncovered about a lost Philip José Farmer speech titled “SF and the Kinsey Report at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention (Philcon 2) in Philadelphia (September 1953) and Pat M. Kuras and Rob Schmieder’s article “When It Changed: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Science Fiction Fandom” (1980) on the first Worldcon panel with an openly LGBTQ topic: “The Closed Open Mind: Homophobia in Science Fiction Fantasy Stories” moderated by Jerry Jacks, one of the “early openly gay fans.” I recently edited an article for academic publication on the role of conventions in forming feminist and political activism. Conventions sound like fascinating places, at least from my historically-minded vantage point and lens.
However, as visitors to the site probably know, I’ve never attended a science fiction specific con (I’ve attended Gencon twice as its in my current hometown and tons of academic conferences earlier in my career). For fear of revealing too much of my psychological profile (muahaha), I enjoy the self-created illusion of being an outsider. The scholar who writes from the shadows. I often tell myself “I’m a historian, not a fan.” Of course, both can be true… I know cons cover a vast variety of topics beyond contemporary science fiction (which does not interest me in the slightest, alas). There are frequently panels on all the topics, authors, and themes I enjoy. And of course, all the friendships with fans with similar interests… As meeting authors? Not my thing, sorry. Well-meaning readers of my website often attempt to invite me to participate on panels on historical topics. Thank you! Maybe at one point I will. I really should.
I’d love to know why you, lovely readers, enjoy attending cons.
Also, before we get to the photograph above and the curated birthdays, let me know what pre-1985 SF you’re currently reading or planning to read!
The Photograph (with links to reviews and brief thoughts)
- I suspect I’ve featured Langdon Jones’ wonderful collection The Eye of the Lens (1972) before. It’s an example of the exuberant (and successful) elements of the New Wave movement. “The Hall of the Machines” (1968) represents what I enjoy most lates 60s SF.
- Algis Budrys’ Rogue Moon (1960). A good one! I wish I managed to write a full-length review.
- Joanna Russ’ We Who Are About To…. (1976). Remains my favorite Russ novel.
- John Christopher’s A Wrinkle in the Skin (variant title: The Ragged Edge) (1965). I preferred this post-apocalyptic nightmare to The Death of Grass (1956). The scene with the tanker stranded in the dried-out English Channel, top notch…
What am I writing about?
I recently restarted my series on translated SF short fiction—after a lull on my part–with Rachel S. Cordasco over at Speculative Fiction in Translation. We thoroughly enjoyed Izumi Suzuki’s “Terminal Boredom” (1984). Up next– a story from Germany!
Despite a slow writing month, I did manage to put together my first full-length review of Octavia E. Butler’s Clay’s Ark (1984). My favorite of her novels so far! There’s some solid early 80s SF out there.
What am I reading?
My reading of various forms of American leftist politics continues. Finished Mathew Hild’s Greenbackers, Knight of Labor, and Populist: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South (2007). There’s a larger incubatory SF-related writing project looming that will connect to late 19th century attempts to challenge Southern Democrats. Simultaneously, as I teach college-level American History courses I felt that that portion of my classes needed some work. Stay tuned!
Most of my reading has been related to the scholarship related to my unnamed writing project. However, I finally finished my Kim Stanley Robinson novel and should (I know, I promised the same thing a while back) have a review up soon(ish). A vampiric cloud of despair–generated by American politics, the challenges of my job, etc.–continues to consume my energy.
A Curated List of SF Birthdays from the Last Two Weeks [names link to The Internet Speculative Fiction Database for bibliographical info]
November 15th: William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). I recently acquired a copy of The House on the Borderland (1908).
November 15th: J. G. Ballard (1930-2009). A favorite of mine.
November 16th: Candas Jane Dorsey (1952-). There’s a copy of Machine Sex and Other Stories (1988) judging me from the shelves.
- Diane and Leo Dillon’s cover for the 1971 1st edition
November 18th: Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015). I’ve reviewed At the Seventh Level (1972) and Furthest (1971).
November 18th: Margaret Atwood (1939-).
November 18th: Frederick Turner (1943).
November 18th: Alan Dean Foster (1946-).
November 18th: Graham Charnock (1946-). One of the British voices of the New Wave movement. I’ve only read “The Chinese Boxes” (1970).
- Mark Salwowski’s cover for the 1989 edition
November 18th: Michael Swanwick (1950-). I read my first Swanwick novel last year–In the Drift (1985).
November 19th: Wolfgang Jeschke (1936-2015). A Czech-born German SF author whom I really should read… I own his translated novel The Last Day of Creation (1981, trans. 1982).
November 20th: Molly Gloss (1944-). The Dazzle of the Day (1997) is supposed to be a really great take on the generation ship premise (outside of my date range, alas).
November 21st: Artist Vincent Di Fate (1945-).
- Ken Laidlaw’s cover for the 1977 edition
November 22nd: William Kotzwinkle (1938-). Doctor Rat (1976) still unsettles me.
November 23rd: Wilson Tucker (1914-2006). Huge fan of The Long Loud Silence (1952, rev. 1969) — one of the better nuclear-war themed 50s novels. I must get to more of his work in 2026…
November 24th: Editor T. O’Conor Sloane, Ph.D. (1851-1940). The editor of Amazing between 1929-1938.
November 24th: Spider Robinson (1948-).
November 25th: Amelia Reynolds Long (1904-1978). An earlier female SF pioneer, I’ve only read Long’s “Omega” (1932). Unfortunately, my dislike of 30s SF informs my comments — regardless, she’s a historically important figure.
November 25th: Poul Anderson (1926-2001). One of the authors of the first years of my website. I’ve covered eleven novels and twenty-six of his short stories. Most recently I featured “The Troublemakers” (1953) in my generation ship review series.
November 26th: Leonard Tushnet (1908-1973)
November 26th: Artist Victoria Poyser (1949-).
November 27th: L. Sprague de Camp (1907-2000).
November 27th: C. C. MacApp (1917-1971)
- Uncredited cover for the 1965 edition
November 27th: Dave Wallis (1917-1990). I thoroughly enjoyed his sole SF novel Only Lovers Left Alive (1964).
November 27th: Artist Josh Kirby (1928-2001). Perhaps best known for his Discworld covers, Kirby was a prolific contributor of art for a vast variety of authors.
November 28th: Richard R. Smith (1930-). A prolific contributor to the magazines in the 1950s, I’ve yet to read his work.
November 28th: Artist Walter Velez (1939-2018).
- MacGowan’s interior art for Gregory Benford’s “Nobody Lives Around There” in Vertex: The Magazine of Science Fiction (February 1974)
November 28th: Editor and author Donald J. Pfeil (1937-1989). Best known for editing Vertex (1973-1975).
November 29th: C. S. Lewis (1898-1963).
November 29th: Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007). If you haven’t read about the L’Engle great cover mystery, you should!
November 29th: Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. (1950-2012).
November 29th: Artist Doug Beekman (1952-).
For book reviews consult the INDEX
For cover art posts consult the INDEX
For TV and film reviews consult the INDEX
#1950s #1960s #1970s #algisBudrys #avantGarde #bookReview #bookReviews2 #books #fiction #joannaRuss #johnChristopher #langdonJones #paperbacks #reading #sciFi #scienceFiction #writing
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Un po' della mia #tbr di #romanzi da #leggere per giugno e luglio.
Tu ne hai #letto qualcuno? Dimmelo nei commenti se ti va.
Titoli in ordine di apparizione:
#Ubik, Il libro delle cose nuove e strane, Il mistero dei giardini e degli stagni, Le female man, Kitchen, Il gatto che voleva salvare i libri, The chosen and the beautiful, La stirpe della gru.
#JoannaRuss #PhilipKDick #BananaYoshimoto
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Un po' della mia #tbr di #romanzi da #leggere per giugno e luglio.
Tu ne hai #letto qualcuno? Dimmelo nei commenti se ti va.
Titoli in ordine di apparizione:
#Ubik, Il libro delle cose nuove e strane, Il mistero dei giardini e degli stagni, Le female man, Kitchen, Il gatto che voleva salvare i libri, The chosen and the beautiful, La stirpe della gru.
#JoannaRuss #PhilipKDick #BananaYoshimoto
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Un po' della mia #tbr di #romanzi da #leggere per giugno e luglio.
Tu ne hai #letto qualcuno? Dimmelo nei commenti se ti va.
Titoli in ordine di apparizione:
#Ubik, Il libro delle cose nuove e strane, Il mistero dei giardini e degli stagni, Le female man, Kitchen, Il gatto che voleva salvare i libri, The chosen and the beautiful, La stirpe della gru.
#JoannaRuss #PhilipKDick #BananaYoshimoto
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Un po' della mia #tbr di #romanzi da #leggere per giugno e luglio.
Tu ne hai #letto qualcuno? Dimmelo nei commenti se ti va.
Titoli in ordine di apparizione:
#Ubik, Il libro delle cose nuove e strane, Il mistero dei giardini e degli stagni, Le female man, Kitchen, Il gatto che voleva salvare i libri, The chosen and the beautiful, La stirpe della gru.
#JoannaRuss #PhilipKDick #BananaYoshimoto
#Lettrice #libri #libridimastodon #bookcommunity #mastodonbooks -
Un po' della mia #tbr di #romanzi da #leggere per giugno e luglio.
Tu ne hai #letto qualcuno? Dimmelo nei commenti se ti va.
Titoli in ordine di apparizione:
#Ubik, Il libro delle cose nuove e strane, Il mistero dei giardini e degli stagni, Le female man, Kitchen, Il gatto che voleva salvare i libri, The chosen and the beautiful, La stirpe della gru.
#JoannaRuss #PhilipKDick #BananaYoshimoto
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Fantastic Fiction: Joanna Russ: I am partial. I truly believe that Joanna Russ is one of the greatest writers that the science fiction field has ever produced, and from 1977–1991 she was a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. … (#JoannaRuss)
Full post: https://seattlein2025.org/2025/06/06/fantastic-fiction-joanna-russ/
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Fantastic Fiction: Joanna Russ: I am partial. I truly believe that Joanna Russ is one of the greatest writers that the science fiction field has ever produced, and from 1977–1991 she was a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. … (#JoannaRuss)
Full post: https://seattlein2025.org/2025/06/06/fantastic-fiction-joanna-russ/
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Fantastic Fiction: Joanna Russ: I am partial. I truly believe that Joanna Russ is one of the greatest writers that the science fiction field has ever produced, and from 1977–1991 she was a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. … (#JoannaRuss)
Full post: https://seattlein2025.org/2025/06/06/fantastic-fiction-joanna-russ/
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I am partial. I truly believe that Joanna Russ is one of the greatest writers that the science fiction field has ever produced, and from 1977–1991 she was a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
When you are a kid people are always asking you what your favorite novel is. From the time I first read The Female Man (courtesy of the Women’s Press Book Club in the United Kingdom, which curated a feminist science fiction line at a time when—get this!—Silver Moon, the London women’s bookshop, would not stock science fiction) this was it. I was asked my favorite novel in an interview just this week, and it’s still The Female Man.
Joanna Russ came to prominence first as a short story writer. Her first story, “Nor Custom Stale,” was published in 1959 and “Dear Emily,” a lesbian vampire story, in 1960. Through the 1960s and 70s she produced a steady stream of quietly subversive tales which can be found in The Adventures of Alyz (1976), The Zanzibar Cat (1983), Extra(ordinary) People (1985) and The Hidden Side of the Moon (1987).
Russ began publishing novels at the end of the 1960s, with Picnic on Paradise (1968), about a female adventurer scooped from time to rescue a stranded party on an alien planet, and And Chaos Died (1970), in which Russ first broached the topic of homosexuality in ways unsatisfying but still unusual.
Then in 1972 Russ gave Harlan Ellison “When it Changed” for his Again, Dangerous Visions collection. This short story, told from the point of view of a woman on an all-woman planet, considering with sadness the effect of the arrival of “men,” has been multiply anthologized and is easy to find online if you have not read it. The core of the story is this: women without men can be fully human in ways they cannot be in our current world. It is a story both inspiring and enraging, depending on which side of the (then binary) gender divide you fall.
“When it Changed” proved to be a rehearsal for The Female Man (1975), but it is neither a prequel nor an extract. The Janet in the short story is not the Janet in the novel. The novel uses four characters, four worlds, and shifts constantly between genres, styles, and rhetorics. It’s a challenging and at times overwhelming novel. I took to collecting secondhand copies to “loan” out because they were never returned. At the time of writing this, I have written 40,000 words on this book because it is just so much in all ways—political, experimental and funny (the short critical book will be out from Luna Press in 2026).
The Female Man is Russ’s masterpiece, but We Who Are About To… (1977), The Two of Them (1978), and On Strike Against God (1980) are each very important works. In We Who Are About To… Russ challenges the humancentricism of so much science fiction; in The Two of Them there is a challenge to the concept of a member of the oppressor class who purports to be a political ally. On Strike Against God is a mainstream novel, recently reprinted with very good contextual essays and edited by Alec Pollak.
By 1983 Russ’s fiction career was almost over, but her critical writing was taking off. Russ’s novels had been an insider’s attacks on the absurdities of our genre, and an outsider’s attacks on the majoritarian culture she and all marginalized people are forced to endure. Russ’s essays continued in this vein. Most people know the collection How to Supress Women’s Writing (1983) and its titular essay, along with To Write Like a Woman (1995) (which contains a superb article on “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a ghost story), but my favourite is Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays (1985) for the titular essay, which is a superb analysis of the often ignored and poisonous class, racial, and gender dynamics of women’s activist groups.
I wish I’d had the chance to meet and be taught by Professor Russ, although everything I’ve heard about her suggests that she could be terrifying. But as it is, I am aware that I have learned so much from her fiction and her critical work (even where I disagree with it), and I would love more people to read it and talk about it. Maybe at Worldcon?
Novels
- Picnic on Paradise (1968)
- And Chaos Died (1970)
- The Female Man (1975)
- We Who Are About To… (1977)
- The Two of Them (1978)
- On Strike Against God: A Lesbian Love Story (1980) (novella)
Short fiction collections
- The Adventures of Alyx (1976) (includes Picnic on Paradise)
- The Zanzibar Cat (1983)
- Extra(ordinary) People (1985)
- The Hidden Side of the Moon (1987)
Children’s fiction
- Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic (1978)
Nonfiction
- Speculations on the Subjunctivity of Science Fiction (1973)
- Somebody’s Trying to Kill Me and I Think It’s My Husband: The Modern Gothic (1973)
- How to Suppress Women’s Writing (1983)
- Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays (1985)
- To Write Like a Woman (1995)
- What Are We Fighting For?: Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism (1997)
- The Country You Have Never Seen: Essays and Reviews (2007)
https://seattlein2025.org/2025/06/06/fantastic-fiction-joanna-russ/
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I am partial. I truly believe that Joanna Russ is one of the greatest writers that the science fiction field has ever produced, and from 1977–1991 she was a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
When you are a kid people are always asking you what your favorite novel is. From the time I first read The Female Man (courtesy of the Women’s Press Book Club in the United Kingdom, which curated a feminist science fiction line at a time when—get this!—Silver Moon, the London women’s bookshop, would not stock science fiction) this was it. I was asked my favorite novel in an interview just this week, and it’s still The Female Man.
Joanna Russ came to prominence first as a short story writer. Her first story, “Nor Custom Stale,” was published in 1959 and “Dear Emily,” a lesbian vampire story, in 1960. Through the 1960s and 70s she produced a steady stream of quietly subversive tales which can be found in The Adventures of Alyz (1976), The Zanzibar Cat (1983), Extra(ordinary) People (1985) and The Hidden Side of the Moon (1987).
Russ began publishing novels at the end of the 1960s, with Picnic on Paradise (1968), about a female adventurer scooped from time to rescue a stranded party on an alien planet, and And Chaos Died (1970), in which Russ first broached the topic of homosexuality in ways unsatisfying but still unusual.
Then in 1972 Russ gave Harlan Ellison “When it Changed” for his Again, Dangerous Visions collection. This short story, told from the point of view of a woman on an all-woman planet, considering with sadness the effect of the arrival of “men,” has been multiply anthologized and is easy to find online if you have not read it. The core of the story is this: women without men can be fully human in ways they cannot be in our current world. It is a story both inspiring and enraging, depending on which side of the (then binary) gender divide you fall.
“When it Changed” proved to be a rehearsal for The Female Man (1975), but it is neither a prequel nor an extract. The Janet in the short story is not the Janet in the novel. The novel uses four characters, four worlds, and shifts constantly between genres, styles, and rhetorics. It’s a challenging and at times overwhelming novel. I took to collecting secondhand copies to “loan” out because they were never returned. At the time of writing this, I have written 40,000 words on this book because it is just so much in all ways—political, experimental and funny (the short critical book will be out from Luna Press in 2026).
The Female Man is Russ’s masterpiece, but We Who Are About To… (1977), The Two of Them (1978), and On Strike Against God (1980) are each very important works. In We Who Are About To… Russ challenges the humancentricism of so much science fiction; in The Two of Them there is a challenge to the concept of a member of the oppressor class who purports to be a political ally. On Strike Against God is a mainstream novel, recently reprinted with very good contextual essays and edited by Alec Pollak.
By 1983 Russ’s fiction career was almost over, but her critical writing was taking off. Russ’s novels had been an insider’s attacks on the absurdities of our genre, and an outsider’s attacks on the majoritarian culture she and all marginalized people are forced to endure. Russ’s essays continued in this vein. Most people know the collection How to Supress Women’s Writing (1983) and its titular essay, along with To Write Like a Woman (1995) (which contains a superb article on “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a ghost story), but my favourite is Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays (1985) for the titular essay, which is a superb analysis of the often ignored and poisonous class, racial, and gender dynamics of women’s activist groups.
I wish I’d had the chance to meet and be taught by Professor Russ, although everything I’ve heard about her suggests that she could be terrifying. But as it is, I am aware that I have learned so much from her fiction and her critical work (even where I disagree with it), and I would love more people to read it and talk about it. Maybe at Worldcon?
Novels
- Picnic on Paradise (1968)
- And Chaos Died (1970)
- The Female Man (1975)
- We Who Are About To… (1977)
- The Two of Them (1978)
- On Strike Against God: A Lesbian Love Story (1980) (novella)
Short fiction collections
- The Adventures of Alyx (1976) (includes Picnic on Paradise)
- The Zanzibar Cat (1983)
- Extra(ordinary) People (1985)
- The Hidden Side of the Moon (1987)
Children’s fiction
- Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic (1978)
Nonfiction
- Speculations on the Subjunctivity of Science Fiction (1973)
- Somebody’s Trying to Kill Me and I Think It’s My Husband: The Modern Gothic (1973)
- How to Suppress Women’s Writing (1983)
- Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays (1985)
- To Write Like a Woman (1995)
- What Are We Fighting For?: Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism (1997)
- The Country You Have Never Seen: Essays and Reviews (2007)
Farah Mendlesohn is a con-runner, a retired history professor, a charity manager, co-editor of the Hugo Award-Winning Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, author of the Hugo-nominated The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein, and is currently working on a short book about Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (preorder Considering The Female Man by Joanna Russ, or, As the Bear Swore). Farah has chaired three Eastercons, has served in various capacities in Worldcons and Eastercons, and is part of the World Fantasy 2025 team. (Farah/they/she)
https://seattlein2025.org/2025/06/06/fantastic-fiction-joanna-russ/
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I am partial. I truly believe that Joanna Russ is one of the greatest writers that the science fiction field has ever produced, and from 1977–1991 she was a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
When you are a kid people are always asking you what your favorite novel is. From the time I first read The Female Man (courtesy of the Women’s Press Book Club in the United Kingdom, which curated a feminist science fiction line at a time when—get this!—Silver Moon, the London women’s bookshop, would not stock science fiction) this was it. I was asked my favorite novel in an interview just this week, and it’s still The Female Man.
Joanna Russ came to prominence first as a short story writer. Her first story, “Nor Custom Stale,” was published in 1959 and “Dear Emily,” a lesbian vampire story, in 1960. Through the 1960s and 70s she produced a steady stream of quietly subversive tales which can be found in The Adventures of Alyz (1976), The Zanzibar Cat (1983), Extra(ordinary) People (1985) and The Hidden Side of the Moon (1987).
Russ began publishing novels at the end of the 1960s, with Picnic on Paradise (1968), about a female adventurer scooped from time to rescue a stranded party on an alien planet, and And Chaos Died (1970), in which Russ first broached the topic of homosexuality in ways unsatisfying but still unusual.
Then in 1972 Russ gave Harlan Ellison “When it Changed” for his Again, Dangerous Visions collection. This short story, told from the point of view of a woman on an all-woman planet, considering with sadness the effect of the arrival of “men,” has been multiply anthologized and is easy to find online if you have not read it. The core of the story is this: women without men can be fully human in ways they cannot be in our current world. It is a story both inspiring and enraging, depending on which side of the (then binary) gender divide you fall.
“When it Changed” proved to be a rehearsal for The Female Man (1975), but it is neither a prequel nor an extract. The Janet in the short story is not the Janet in the novel. The novel uses four characters, four worlds, and shifts constantly between genres, styles, and rhetorics. It’s a challenging and at times overwhelming novel. I took to collecting secondhand copies to “loan” out because they were never returned. At the time of writing this, I have written 40,000 words on this book because it is just so much in all ways—political, experimental and funny (the short critical book will be out from Luna Press in 2026).
The Female Man is Russ’s masterpiece, but We Who Are About To… (1977), The Two of Them (1978), and On Strike Against God (1980) are each very important works. In We Who Are About To… Russ challenges the humancentricism of so much science fiction; in The Two of Them there is a challenge to the concept of a member of the oppressor class who purports to be a political ally. On Strike Against God is a mainstream novel, recently reprinted with very good contextual essays and edited by Alec Pollak.
By 1983 Russ’s fiction career was almost over, but her critical writing was taking off. Russ’s novels had been an insider’s attacks on the absurdities of our genre, and an outsider’s attacks on the majoritarian culture she and all marginalized people are forced to endure. Russ’s essays continued in this vein. Most people know the collection How to Supress Women’s Writing (1983) and its titular essay, along with To Write Like a Woman (1995) (which contains a superb article on “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a ghost story), but my favourite is Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays (1985) for the titular essay, which is a superb analysis of the often ignored and poisonous class, racial, and gender dynamics of women’s activist groups.
I wish I’d had the chance to meet and be taught by Professor Russ, although everything I’ve heard about her suggests that she could be terrifying. But as it is, I am aware that I have learned so much from her fiction and her critical work (even where I disagree with it), and I would love more people to read it and talk about it. Maybe at Worldcon?
Novels
- Picnic on Paradise (1968)
- And Chaos Died (1970)
- The Female Man (1975)
- We Who Are About To… (1977)
- The Two of Them (1978)
- On Strike Against God: A Lesbian Love Story (1980) (novella)
Short fiction collections
- The Adventures of Alyx (1976) (includes Picnic on Paradise)
- The Zanzibar Cat (1983)
- Extra(ordinary) People (1985)
- The Hidden Side of the Moon (1987)
Children’s fiction
- Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic (1978)
Nonfiction
- Speculations on the Subjunctivity of Science Fiction (1973)
- Somebody’s Trying to Kill Me and I Think It’s My Husband: The Modern Gothic (1973)
- How to Suppress Women’s Writing (1983)
- Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays (1985)
- To Write Like a Woman (1995)
- What Are We Fighting For?: Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism (1997)
- The Country You Have Never Seen: Essays and Reviews (2007)
https://seattlein2025.org/2025/06/06/fantastic-fiction-joanna-russ/
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I am partial. I truly believe that Joanna Russ is one of the greatest writers that the science fiction field has ever produced, and from 1977–1991 she was a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
When you are a kid people are always asking you what your favorite novel is. From the time I first read The Female Man (courtesy of the Women’s Press Book Club in the United Kingdom, which curated a feminist science fiction line at a time when—get this!—Silver Moon, the London women’s bookshop, would not stock science fiction) this was it. I was asked my favorite novel in an interview just this week, and it’s still The Female Man.
Joanna Russ came to prominence first as a short story writer. Her first story, “Nor Custom Stale,” was published in 1959 and “Dear Emily,” a lesbian vampire story, in 1960. Through the 1960s and 70s she produced a steady stream of quietly subversive tales which can be found in The Adventures of Alyz (1976), The Zanzibar Cat (1983), Extra(ordinary) People (1985) and The Hidden Side of the Moon (1987).
Russ began publishing novels at the end of the 1960s, with Picnic on Paradise (1968), about a female adventurer scooped from time to rescue a stranded party on an alien planet, and And Chaos Died (1970), in which Russ first broached the topic of homosexuality in ways unsatisfying but still unusual.
Then in 1972 Russ gave Harlan Ellison “When it Changed” for his Again, Dangerous Visions collection. This short story, told from the point of view of a woman on an all-woman planet, considering with sadness the effect of the arrival of “men,” has been multiply anthologized and is easy to find online if you have not read it. The core of the story is this: women without men can be fully human in ways they cannot be in our current world. It is a story both inspiring and enraging, depending on which side of the (then binary) gender divide you fall.
“When it Changed” proved to be a rehearsal for The Female Man (1975), but it is neither a prequel nor an extract. The Janet in the short story is not the Janet in the novel. The novel uses four characters, four worlds, and shifts constantly between genres, styles, and rhetorics. It’s a challenging and at times overwhelming novel. I took to collecting secondhand copies to “loan” out because they were never returned. At the time of writing this, I have written 40,000 words on this book because it is just so much in all ways—political, experimental and funny (the short critical book will be out from Luna Press in 2026).
The Female Man is Russ’s masterpiece, but We Who Are About To… (1977), The Two of Them (1978), and On Strike Against God (1980) are each very important works. In We Who Are About To… Russ challenges the humancentricism of so much science fiction; in The Two of Them there is a challenge to the concept of a member of the oppressor class who purports to be a political ally. On Strike Against God is a mainstream novel, recently reprinted with very good contextual essays and edited by Alec Pollak.
By 1983 Russ’s fiction career was almost over, but her critical writing was taking off. Russ’s novels had been an insider’s attacks on the absurdities of our genre, and an outsider’s attacks on the majoritarian culture she and all marginalized people are forced to endure. Russ’s essays continued in this vein. Most people know the collection How to Supress Women’s Writing (1983) and its titular essay, along with To Write Like a Woman (1995) (which contains a superb article on “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a ghost story), but my favourite is Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays (1985) for the titular essay, which is a superb analysis of the often ignored and poisonous class, racial, and gender dynamics of women’s activist groups.
I wish I’d had the chance to meet and be taught by Professor Russ, although everything I’ve heard about her suggests that she could be terrifying. But as it is, I am aware that I have learned so much from her fiction and her critical work (even where I disagree with it), and I would love more people to read it and talk about it. Maybe at Worldcon?
Novels
- Picnic on Paradise (1968)
- And Chaos Died (1970)
- The Female Man (1975)
- We Who Are About To… (1977)
- The Two of Them (1978)
- On Strike Against God: A Lesbian Love Story (1980) (novella)
Short fiction collections
- The Adventures of Alyx (1976) (includes Picnic on Paradise)
- The Zanzibar Cat (1983)
- Extra(ordinary) People (1985)
- The Hidden Side of the Moon (1987)
Children’s fiction
- Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic (1978)
Nonfiction
- Speculations on the Subjunctivity of Science Fiction (1973)
- Somebody’s Trying to Kill Me and I Think It’s My Husband: The Modern Gothic (1973)
- How to Suppress Women’s Writing (1983)
- Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays (1985)
- To Write Like a Woman (1995)
- What Are We Fighting For?: Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism (1997)
- The Country You Have Never Seen: Essays and Reviews (2007)
Farah Mendlesohn is a con-runner, a retired history professor, a charity manager, co-editor of the Hugo Award-Winning Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, author of the Hugo-nominated The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein, and is currently working on a short book about Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (preorder Considering The Female Man by Joanna Russ, or, As the Bear Swore). Farah has chaired three Eastercons, has served in various capacities in Worldcons and Eastercons, and is part of the World Fantasy 2025 team. (Farah/they/she)
https://seattlein2025.org/2025/06/06/fantastic-fiction-joanna-russ/
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Et puis, toujours dans ce savoureux "L'exoplanète féministe de Joanna Russ", en ce #8mars, son écrit "Cher collègue, je ne suis pas un homme honorifique", avec sa longue liste de "traductions" aux phrases que peut prononcer de façon terriblement banale ce collègue homme, méritent certainement une mention :)
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Et puis, toujours dans ce savoureux "L'exoplanète féministe de Joanna Russ", en ce #8mars, son écrit "Cher collègue, je ne suis pas un homme honorifique", avec sa longue liste de "traductions" aux phrases que peut prononcer de façon terriblement banale ce collègue homme, méritent certainement une mention :)
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Et puis, toujours dans ce savoureux "L'exoplanète féministe de Joanna Russ", en ce #8mars, son écrit "Cher collègue, je ne suis pas un homme honorifique", avec sa longue liste de "traductions" aux phrases que peut prononcer de façon terriblement banale ce collègue homme, méritent certainement une mention :)
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Et puis, toujours dans ce savoureux "L'exoplanète féministe de Joanna Russ", en ce #8mars, son écrit "Cher collègue, je ne suis pas un homme honorifique", avec sa longue liste de "traductions" aux phrases que peut prononcer de façon terriblement banale ce collègue homme, méritent certainement une mention :)
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I was talking today with a friend about the Science Fiction Foundation masterclass and it reminded me of when I taught an SFF mini masterclass at the 2022 Eastercon on Joanna Russ's 'When it Changed'. By the time I wrote up this post three months later, Roe v Wade had been overturned and the context was different. #scifi #sf #sciencefiction #JoannaRuss #whenitchanged #whenitchanged72 #roevwade #RoeOverturned
https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2022/07/08/when-it-changed/
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I was talking today with a friend about the Science Fiction Foundation masterclass and it reminded me of when I taught an SFF mini masterclass at Eastercon on Joanna Russ's 'When it Changed'. By the time I wrote up this post three months later, Roe v Wade had been overturned and the context was different. #scifi #sf #sciencefiction #JoannaRuss #whenitchanged #whenitchanged72 #roevwade #RoeOverturned
https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2022/07/08/when-it-changed/
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I was talking today with a friend about the Science Fiction Foundation masterclass and it reminded me of when I taught an SFF mini masterclass at Eastercon on Joanna Russ's 'When it Changed'. By the time I wrote up this post three months later, Roe v Wade had been overturned and the context was different. #scifi #sf #sciencefiction #JoannaRuss #whenitchanged #whenitchanged72 #roevwade #RoeOverturned
https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2022/07/08/when-it-changed/
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I was talking today with a friend about the Science Fiction Foundation masterclass and it reminded me of when I taught an SFF mini masterclass at the 2022 Eastercon on Joanna Russ's 'When it Changed'. By the time I wrote up this post three months later, Roe v Wade had been overturned and the context was different. #scifi #sf #sciencefiction #JoannaRuss #whenitchanged #whenitchanged72 #roevwade #RoeOverturned
https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2022/07/08/when-it-changed/
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I was talking today with a friend about the Science Fiction Foundation masterclass and it reminded me of when I taught an SFF mini masterclass at Eastercon on Joanna Russ's 'When it Changed'. By the time I wrote up this post three months later, Roe v Wade had been overturned and the context was different. #scifi #sf #sciencefiction #JoannaRuss #whenitchanged #whenitchanged72 #roevwade #RoeOverturned
https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2022/07/08/when-it-changed/
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finished “Survivor” on my phone…looked for Joanna Russ in a dozen used book storesin 3 different states She is the last on the list…ordered a hard cover, new edition of her work today #JoannaRuss
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finished “Survivor” on my phone…looked for Joanna Russ in a dozen used book storesin 3 different states She is the last on the list…ordered a hard cover, new edition of her work today #JoannaRuss
