From LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Tue Feb 12 16:51:19 2002 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:38:38 -0600 From: "L-Soft list server at UIC (1.8d)" To: Laura Q Subject: File: "FEMINISTSF-LIT LOG0105A" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 14:17:51 -0500 Reply-To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC Sender: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC From: Susan Hericks Subject: Re: BDG Voting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Terri, HEre are my votes: 1)Brain Plague 2)The Bridge 3)Playing God 4) the Fortunate Fall Thanks, Susan ------------------------------------------------------ This is the FEMINISTSF-LIT listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe FEMINISTSF-LIT Contact FEMINISTSF-LIT-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 07:14:44 -0700 Reply-To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC Sender: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC From: Maryelizabeth Hart Organization: Mysterious Galaxy Subject: ILLICIT PASSAGE update Comments: To: Oxywyrm@aol.com, Fem-SF MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Stephanie: The good news is that I still have your name and every one else's on my list of people interested in ILLICIT PASSAGE. The other good news is that they were sent 6 weeks ago. The bad news is that they were sent by the slowest, least expensive option, and have not arrived yet. Soon I hope. Thanks for checking. Maryelizabeth -- ******************************************************************* Mysterious Galaxy Books Local Phone: 858.268.4747 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite 302 Fax: 858.268.4775 San Diego, CA 92111 Long Distance/Orders: 1.800.811.4747 http://www.mystgalaxy.com General Email: mgbooks@mystgalaxy.com ******************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------ This is the FEMINISTSF-LIT listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe FEMINISTSF-LIT Contact FEMINISTSF-LIT-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 21:39:19 -0400 Reply-To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC Sender: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC From: Terri Subject: BDG Voting Comments: cc: FEMINISTSF@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Hi! Just a reminder that voting for the next round of BDG group reads ends this Saturday at midnight, EST. Be sure and get your votes in before then if you wish to vote. Instructions are listed below. Thanks Terri Wakefield ***************************************** Please send your votes for your FOUR (4) choices for the next BDG group read to me at...... not to the list!! Also, would you list your choices from 1-4, with number 1 being your 1st choice. This new way of voting should eliminate any problem with tie votes. :o) You should receive a reply from me within 24 hours that I have received your votes. If you do not receive a confirmation from me, please let me know. We don't want anyone's votes to be lost in cyber space! The voting period is from now until midnight, May 5th, USA, EST. The winners will be announced early the following week. The nominated books are listed below. Happy voting! - Raphael Carter: The Fortunate Fall. List Price: $13.95 (Amazon $11.16), Paperback 288 pages (May 1997), Tor Books; ISBN: 0312863276 - Keith Hartman: The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse. Meisha Merlin Publishing; ISBN: 1892065053; List Price $16.00 - Mercedes Lackey: The Black Swan. DAW Books. List price 6.99 - Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home. Paperback - 525 pages (February 5, 2001) Univ California Press; ISBN: 0520227352, List Price: $14.95 - Joan Slonczewski: Brain Plague. 2000, TOR, $6.99, Mass Market, ISBN: 0812579143 - Starhawk: The Fifth Sacred Thing. Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 496pp., ISBN: 0553373803, Publisher: Bantam Books, Incorporated, Pub. Date: May 1994, Edition Desc: REPRINT, List price $14.95 - David Weber: The Honor of the Queen (Honor Harrington). Price: $7.99, Mass Market Paperback - 422 pages Reissue edition (June 1993), Baen Books; ISBN: 0671721720 - Janine Ellen Young: The Bridge. List Price: $6.50, Mass Market Paperback - 348 pages (September 2000), Aspect; ISSBN: 0446607991 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.03 x 6.74 x 4.27 - Sarah Zettel: Playing God. Mass Market Paperback - 448 pages (November 1999), Warner Books; ISBN: 0446607584; List Price: $6.99 ------------------------------------------------------ This is the FEMINISTSF-LIT listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe FEMINISTSF-LIT Contact FEMINISTSF-LIT-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 12:36:27 -0500 Reply-To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC Sender: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC From: Susan Hericks Subject: Re: BDG: The Northern Girl -- Characters MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Janice wrote:> >One glass, and one glass only, for Arré. Maybe because her brother was >involved, she seemed much more affected by the stress of all the intrigue >than Marti was. I was alarmed when Sorren found her dead drunk after >downing two carafes of wine. I was also a little puzzled. In the preceding >scene she had been calmly concocting a plan to force the Ron Ismenin's hand >and didn't seem particularly distraught. But I guess she may have felt that >she had earned some relaxation, some forgetfulness. Obviously it went too >far. From the description, it sounded like she came very close to fatal >alcohol poisoning. Yikes. I wonder if we are supposed to see her as an >alcoholic? She's a very unusual one, if so. Though I'm not a medical expert, it seemed clear to me that Arre had diabetes (her love for sweets, the similar health problems of her mother) and put herself into a diabetic coma with too much alcohol. Finishing the book late :( Susan ------------------------------------------------------ This is the FEMINISTSF-LIT listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe FEMINISTSF-LIT Contact FEMINISTSF-LIT-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:53:26 -0400 Reply-To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC Sender: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC From: "Janice E. Dawley" Subject: Re: BDG: The Northern Girl -- Characters In-Reply-To: <002501c0d653$1511eda0$d22656d1@oemcomputer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit At 12:36 PM 5/6/01 -0500, Susan Hericks wrote: >Janice wrote:> > >One glass, and one glass only, for Arré. Maybe because her brother was > >involved, she seemed much more affected by the stress of all the intrigue > >than Marti was. I was alarmed when Sorren found her dead drunk after > >downing two carafes of wine. I was also a little puzzled. In the preceding > >scene she had been calmly concocting a plan to force the Ron Ismenin's hand > >and didn't seem particularly distraught. But I guess she may have felt that > >she had earned some relaxation, some forgetfulness. Obviously it went too > >far. From the description, it sounded like she came very close to fatal > >alcohol poisoning. Yikes. I wonder if we are supposed to see her as an > >alcoholic? She's a very unusual one, if so. > >Though I'm not a medical expert, it seemed clear to me that Arre had >diabetes (her love for sweets, the similar health problems of her mother) >and put herself into a diabetic coma with too much alcohol. Thank you for this info -- it makes sense now! I just looked up the signs of hyperglycemia, and they match Arré's symptoms, down to the "fruity" breath. ----- Janice E. Dawley.....Burlington, VT http://homepages.together.net/~jdawley/ Listening to: Coldplay -- Parachutes "...the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected; the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other." Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas ------------------------------------------------------ This is the FEMINISTSF-LIT listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe FEMINISTSF-LIT Contact FEMINISTSF-LIT-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 18:38:02 0100 Reply-To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC Sender: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC From: Petra Mayerhofer Subject: Next BDG selection MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT The votes are counted. The winners are The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman Brain Plague by Joan Slonczewski The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin I've contacted the nominators to confirm the schedule for July to October. Thank you to all who nominated books. And thank you very much to Terri for taking on the trouble of counting the votes. The BDG book for this month is _The Moon and the Sun_ by Vonda McIntyre, in June it is _Beggars in Spain_ by Nancy Kress. Petra Petra Mayerhofer mailto:mayerhofer@usf.uni-kassel.de -- BDG website http://www.geocities.com/bdg_volunteers/ ------------------------------------------------------ This is the FEMINISTSF-LIT listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe FEMINISTSF-LIT Contact FEMINISTSF-LIT-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems.