On Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:06:57 -0400 Anastasia McPherson wrote:
>
> 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".
I like short stories too (and that's what my academic work is on) but it
is a problem in sf to accuse writers of being derivative. Sf has been a
discourse for seventy years. The genre has thrived on the
willingness of authors to see their work embedded in that of authors.
Farah
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