Hi Ladies (I assume)
I was THRILLED to find this mailing list as I am working on a
sci-fi novella and I love to read sci-fi as well. What are people
reading these days? I am a big fan of the anthology and am waiting for
the new Dozois Years Best to come out. I also just finished a new
anthology called starlight which had women well represented, however, the
quality of the selections was something less than memorable. Even
Maureen McHugh's story was an obvious derivative of LeGuin's "Left Hand
of Darkness".
And here is a meaty question. I have always loved the
utopia/dystopia dyad but find myself leaning toward creating dystopic
futures by extrapolation and see this tendency in the other literature of
the day. How much of this do you think is due to the millenialism abroad
n the culture today and how much due to a real weighing of the facts of
our near future?
Sincerely,
Anastasia McPherson
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