From LISTSERV@listserv.uic.edu Fri Jan 26 13:39:46 2001 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:59:07 -0600 From: "L-Soft list server at UIC (1.8d)" To: Laura Quilter Subject: File: "FEMINISTSF LOG0011C" ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:18:47 -0600 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: Bradbury on FRESH AIR on NPR tomorrow (repeat interview) Comments: To: "sciencefiction-l@listserv.indiana.edu" , "fictionmags@egroups.com" , "bestsuspense@egroups.com" , "SF-LIT@sun8.loc.gov" , "ttalkback@egroups.com" Comments: cc: TIMEBINDERS@SFLOVERS.RUTGERS.EDU, Shortmystery@egroups.com, "iafa-l@wiz.cath.vt.edu" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On your local NPR affiliate, or on www.whyy.org (times Eastern Standard) FRESH AIR with Terry Gross 3-4PM An archive edition of Fresh Air with science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. This week he was awarded a National Book Foundation medal for his contribution to American letters. Also, actress Glenn Close. (Repeated at 7PM) For tapes and transcripts of Fresh Air, call Toll-Free 1-877-21-FRESH (1-877-213-7379). -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF 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 Contact FEMINISTSF-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:00:51 -0600 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: Annualling, a progress report Comments: To: "ttalkback@egroups.com" Comments: cc: "sciencefiction-l@listserv.indiana.edu" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" So...I'm about three or four stories-worth into each of these listed below...interesting to me how some of the items reinforce one another, such as TED Klein's borderline horror in the Jones paralleling an essay in the PUSHCART about an inexplicable crow against crow massacre in Alaska and its aftermath (which also has an echo in the second story in the Hartwell, "Evolution Never Sleeps"), or the BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES and BA MYSTERY volumes both leading off with tales of itinerant musicians (made more coincidental by the fact these two Houghton Mifflin books offer their stories in alphabetical order by author's last name), and how Le Guin's lead-off in the Datlow/Windling comes to parallel them. The first stories in the Cleis GAY and LESBIAN volumes are almost too stereotypical: the male lead-off is a fond reminiscence of wall-to-wall sex, the female briefly, tragically details a single romantic interlude in the crush of politically charged events in South Africa. The Bright is notable for having the only story, actually a novel excerpt, among its first two items which is unmitigatedly comic, and even cod-sfnal. Steve Rasnic Tem's good "Halloween Street" leads off the Jones and is shared by the Datlow/Winding; Thomas McNeely's even better, not quite superb "Sheep" is second in NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH and shared by BAMS (and shortlisted by both O. HENRY and BASS...publication in THE ATLANTIC is certainly good for visibility); Geoff Ryman's engaging "Everywhere" leads off the Hartwell and is shared by the Dozois (and is the next gen of Damon Knight's "I See You," which may have been T. L. Sherred's "E for Effort" version 2.5). And I've just discovered at least two candidates to join my pile, BEST BISEXUAL EROTICA 2000 (Black Books) and ADRENALINE: BEST ADVENTURE STORIES or some such, which may actually be an essay collection...the compulsive's work is never done. YEAR'S BEST SF 5 David Hartwell (Eos 2000) xv + 494pp $6.99 THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR Stephen Jones (Carroll & Graf 2000) 572pp $11.95 THE BEACON BEST OF 2000 Edwidge Danticat (Beacon 2000) x + 232pp $13 PRIZE STORIES 2000: THE O. HENRY AWARDS Larry Dark with Michael Cunningham, Pam Houston, and George Saunders (Anchor 2000) xviii + 411pp $13 THE BEST AMERICAN EROTICA 2000 Susie Bright (Touchstone 2000) 301pp $13 BEST LESBIAN EROTICA 2000 Joan Nestle with Tristan Taormino (Cleis 2000) xix + 291pp $14.95 THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2000 E.L. Doctorow with Katrina Kennison (Houghton Mifflin 2000) xvi + 381pp $13 THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2000 Donald Westlake with Otto Penzler (Houghton Mifflin 2000) xvii + 489pp $13 THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR: THIRTEENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling with James Frenkel (St. Martin's Griffin 2000) cxxvi + 514pp $17.95 THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION Gardner Dozois with Susan Casper (St. Martin's Griffin 2000) lii + 625pp $17.95 THE WORLD'S FINEST MYSTERY AND CRIME STORIES: FIRST ANNUAL COLLECTION Ed Gorman with James Frenkel (Forge 2000) 639pp $17.95 NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH: THE YEAR'S BEST 2000 Shannon Ravenel with Kathy Pories (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2000) x + 299pp $14.95 BEST GAY EROTICA 2000 D. Travers Scott with Richard Labonte (Cleis 2000) xxii + 218pp $14.95 THE PUSHCART PRIZE: 2000 XXIV Bill Henderson with divers hands (Pushcart 2000) 585pp $15 -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF 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 Contact FEMINISTSF-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:11:38 -0600 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: Re: Annualling, a progress report Comments: To: "TTALKBACK@egroups.com" Comments: cc: "sciencefiction-l@listserv.indiana.edu" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Come to think of it, the parallel vibe between David Marusek's "A Wedding Album" and not and the Ryman are sneaking up on me...(the Marusek leads off the Dozois and carries a blurb mentioning the author's cabin, iirc, in Fairbanks, AK [city of my birth]...not a city, much more than most cities in the Contig 48, overrun by cabins...now, if he lives in North Pole or Clam Gultch...). -----Original Message----- From: Todd Mason Geoff Ryman's engaging "Everywhere" leads off the Hartwell and is shared by the Dozois (and is the next gen of Damon Knight's "I See You," which may have been T. L. Sherred's "E for Effort" version 2.5). -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF 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 Contact FEMINISTSF-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:13:27 -0600 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: Re: [TTALKBACK] RE: Annualling, a progress report Comments: To: "TTALKBACK@egroups.com" Comments: cc: "sciencefiction-l@listserv.indiana.edu" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Let's try that in something like English...no more tonight, promise. -----Original Message----- From: Todd Mason Come to think of it, the parallel-vibes between David Marusek's "A Wedding Album" and the Ryman are sneaking up on me...(the Marusek leads off the Dozois and carries a blurb mentioning the author's cabin, iirc, in Fairbanks, AK [city of my birth]...not a city, much more than most cities in the Contig 48, overrun by cabins...now, if he lives in North Pole or Clam Gulch...). -----Original Message----- From: Todd Mason Geoff Ryman's engaging "Everywhere" leads off the Hartwell and is shared by the Dozois (and is the next gen of Damon Knight's "I See You," which may have been T. L. Sherred's "E for Effort" version 2.5). -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF 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 Contact FEMINISTSF-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:13:17 -0800 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: lquilter Subject: forwarding femsf-announce #1 Comments: To: feministsf-lit@uic.edu, feministsf@uic.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm forwarding the femsf-announce list for maybe the first three issues, and after that people should subscribe to it on their own -- to avoid list noise. But at this point I'm still seeking feedback & suggestions on the list. Sorry for the duplication to the femsf-announce subscribers. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:14:43 -0800 (PST) From: lquilter To: femsf-announce@egroups.com Subject: #1: welcome, new books, call for publications Hi. This is the first "issue" of the announcements list. Pass around as you see fit, and be sure to send your announcements (corrections, suggestions) to lquilter@feministsf.org. ------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS: (1) Forthcoming & New Books (2) Call for Publications: FEMSPEC issue on GIRL POWER (3) On the Net (4) Awards - World Fantasy Award Winners (5) Author Appearances (6) Direct From Publisher ============================================================ (1) Forthcoming & New Books ------------------------------------------------------------ (Which we encourage you to buy from your locally-owned feminist, queer, science fiction or niche bookstores.) Marion Zimmer Bradley's THE MISTS OF AVALON will be re-issued by Ballantine this fall / winter. Octavia Butler's XENOGENESIS series has been re-released as LILITH'S BROOD: DAWN, IMAGO, ADULTHOOD RITES. Classic. Storm Constantine's CROWN OF SILENCE (is this the second in her new series?) is coming out in March. Suzette Haden Elgin's THE OZARK TRILOGY finally came back into print this spring. And, Suzette Haden Elgin's NATIVE TONGUE, the first book in Elgin's classic Native Tongue Trilogy of feminist science fiction novels is once more available, thanks to The Feminist Press at The City University of New York. (See below, for the full announcement from the publisher.) Marie Jakober has published a novel for the first time in several years, THE BLACK CHALICE -- political fantasy. (Her earlier works are hard to get in the United States, so she is not as well known as she should be.) Tanith Lee has a new one from Tor, WHITE AS SNOW, in December. Ursula Le Guin's latest, THE TELLING, came out in September from Harcourt Brace. (And I'm not suggesting you buy it from Amazon.com, but check out the interview with Le Guin on Amazon's web pages.) Susan Matthews has a new novel, not part of the Andrej series: COLONY FLEET, also released in mass market paperback this fall. Pat Murphy's second in a new trilogy, WILD ANGEL, was released by Tor in August, and THERE AND BACK AGAIN has been released in its mass-market paperback edition in October. Rebecca Ore will be releasing OUTLAW SCHOOL in November. Diana Rivers' Hadra Series continues with THE CLOUDS OF WAR, available in November 2000. http://www.hadrabooks.com/ Melissa Scott's POINT OF DREAMS (co-authored with Lisa Barnett) will be re-released by Tor in February 2001. Delia Sherman's next, THE FREEDOM MAZE, will be coming out next spring. Joan Slonczewski has a new book: BRAIN PLAGUE, available from Tor as of August. This one takes place in the same universe as A DOOR INTO OCEAN. Sheri Tepper has a new book: THE FRESCO. Out in hardback from HarperCollins in November 2000. James Tiptree, Jr.'s shorter works were finally collected in MEET ME AT INFINITY, which has been out since April. (I know, it's not new, but you definitely want to pick it up if you haven't.) Elisabeth Vonarburg has a new collection of stories out from Alire (http://www.alire.com/): LA MAISON AU BORD DE LA MER. Parlez-vous francais? Sarah Waters' AFFINITY came out this summer in hardback, and TIPPING THE VELVET, which is not sf or even fantasy (except in the sense of wish-fulfillment) was released in trade paperback this summer. Jeanette Winterson's latest is a cyberspace novel entitled THE POWERBOOK. NEW ANTHOLOGIES Esther Friesner's Amazon comedy series continues, with THE CHICK IS IN THE MAIL (mass paperback, October 2000). Nalo Hopkinson has edited a collection of "Caribbean Fabulist Fictoin": WHISPERS FROM THE COTTON TREE ROOT. NEW BOOKS ABOUT FEMINIST SF: Doris Lessing has been biographed (!) by Carole Klein. Look for DORIS LESSING: A BIOGRAPHY in late October 2000. A new study on Joanna Russ is out: DEMAND MY WRITING: JOANNA RUSS, FEMINISM, SCIENCE FICTION, by Jeanne Cortiel in May 2000, from Liverpool University Press. ============================================================ (2) Call for Publications: FEMSPEC issue on GIRL POWER ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Wayne Harde Subject: CFP: Girlpower, FEMSPEC special issue, 01/04/2001 GIRLPOWER---FEMSPEC (Special Issue)---REVISED CALL FOR PAPERS Girl power is power that comes from within. Girl power comes from celebrating femininity in all its complexity. Girl power comes from girls breaking traditional molds and becoming who they want to be, taking control of themselves and extending that control to their environment. Currently media and texts celebrate girl power in varied and innovative ways. This special issue of FEMSPEC focuses on all aspects of girl power in media and texts, and we are calling for critical articles, creative writing, and art by young adults and professionals that address this topic. FEMSPEC is an interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to critical and creative works in the realms of sf, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres. Submissions on all aspects of girl power and speculative fiction are welcome. We are especially interested in submissions that focus on the following: -new developments in animations and television, such as Power Puff Girls, Sailor Moon, Charmed, Kiki's Delivery Service, Barbie and the Sensations - current television shows such as Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer - speculative fiction novels/series of novels and comics featuring girl power - discussions about girls writing and publishing - submissions of writing by girls - girls' websites and home video games - female superheroes, such as Xena and the women in X-Men - anime - art or photographs Submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter, including name, address, and title of the work; submissions should include only the title of the work. Please submit 4 copies. If you are interested in writing a book review, or submitting art or photography, please contact Roxanne Harde at the address below. Deadline: 1 April 2001 Critical/analytical articles: 15 pages, MLA style Creative writing: Short fiction or plays (15 pages) and poetry (3 poems) Book reviews: 500-750 words, MLA style Send 4 copies of each submission to Donna Varga, Child & Youth Study, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3M 2J6, DONNA.VARGA@MSVU.CA Send 2 copies of each book review to Roxanne Harde, Dept. of English, 411 Watson Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 8rh@qlink.queensu.ca ============================================================ (3) On the Net ------------------------------------------------------------ The Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopian web-site has finally moved to its very own home: www.feministsf.org Watch for lots of changes, including a forthcoming new & improved (maybe even rotating) look & feel. http://www.feministsf.org/ Heather Whipple's Research Guide to Feminist Science Fiction has relocated to: http://www.feministsf.org/femsf/crit/rg.html The Ekumen: An Ursula K. Le Guin reference page: http://www.ocelotfactory.com/leguin/ and it's run by the same person who runs a new Ursula Le Guin listserv on egroups: http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/the-ekumen Ursula Le Guin Webcast on November 15. Web Access: http://chat.iuniverse.com See AUTHOR APPEARANCES, below, for more information. ============================================================ (4) Awards: World Fantasy Award Winners ------------------------------------------------------------ Lifetime Achievement: Marion Zimmer Bradley Michael Moorcock Best Novella (Tie): "Sky Eyes" by Laurel Winter (F&SF Mar 99) & "The Transformation of Martin Lake" by Jeff VanderMeer (Palace Corbie 8) Best Anthology: Silver Birch, Blood Moon Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Avon) ============================================================ (5) Author Appearances ------------------------------------------------------------ November 11 (and archived afterwards), Jeanette Winterson on WEST COAST LIVE. Live Show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA) (you can buy tickets). West Coast Live is uplinked to the public radio satellite, so all public radio stations have an opportunity to broadcast the show. If you have your own satellite receiver, look for WCL Saturday mornings on the Galaxy IV satellite, transponder 3, channels 13 (73.1 MHz) and 14 (57.6 MHz) from 10:00 to 11:59 PST. WHYY-FM does a simucast on RealAudio during their Saturday evening broadcast every week, and within a few days WCL places the program in their RealAudio Archive. http://www.wcl.org/ --------------------------------------- November 15, Ursula Le Guin. WC iUniverse.com Special Event November 15, 2000 @ 10 p.m. ET Simulcast on AOL and the 'Net AOL Keyword: WCEVENTS Web Access: http://chat.iuniverse.com IRC/mIRC: chat.iuniverse.com She published her first novel more than 30 years ago. She has published dozens more since then. Hundreds of awards, including Hugos, Nebulas, National Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Newberry Honor, and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement dot her resume and her mantel. Millions of devout fans read and cherish her every word. She is Ursula K. LeGuin. Her latest novel, THE TELLING -- the newest Hainish novel -- was released in August of this year. Ms. LeGuin will stop by iUniverse.com's chat forums from her Oregon home on Wednesday, November 15 for a rare discussion of her work. For a transcript or more information, contact KellyMilnerH@aol.com. ============================================================ (6) Direct From Publisher ------------------------------------------------------------ > From: "London, Lisa" > > Dear Feminist Science Fiction fans: > > Native Tongue, the first book in the classic Native Tongue Trilogy of > feminist science fiction novels by Suzette Haden Elgin is once more > available to its faithful fans and to readers everywhere, thanks to The > Feminist Press at The City University of New York. > > Called "fascinating" by the New York Times upon its initial publication in > 1984, Native Tongue won wide critical praise and cult status, and has > often been compared to the futuristic feminist fiction of Margaret Atwood > and James Tiptree, Jr. Like Atwood, she explores the institutionalization > of gender bias, and the effect of science and technology on women's power > in society; but she also adds to the debate about the effect of gendered > language on society. Such themes, as well as those of biotechnology and > trade, are relevant to today's social, economic, and political > environments. Set in the twenty-second and twenty-third centuries, the > novel tells of a world where women have been stripped of their rights and > are once again thought of as property. > > In this world, Earth's wealth depends on interplanetary commerce, for > which the population depends on linguists. As the only ones who can speak > to alien races, the linguists make up the ruling class and their women are > used to breed perfect translators for all the galaxies' languages. > Nazareth Chornyak, daughter of the head of one of the linguist households > and the most talented linguist, is exhausted by her constant work > translating for trade organizations, supervising the children's language > education, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs > to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, > chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth comes to discover is that a slow > revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women > are creating a stockpile of language to free them from men's control. And > it is Nazareth who eventually convinces the women to use the language > they've been nurturing and so closely guarding so that their revolution > can begin.The women's language, Láadan, is only one of the brilliant > creations found in this stunningly original novel, which combines a > page-turning plot with challenging meditations on the tensions between > freedom and control, individuals and communities, thought and action. > > For more information, visit http://www.suzettehadenelgin.com/ntpage.html. > Or call 212-817-7920. > > Best, > > Lisa London > The Feminist Press > llondon@gc.cuny.edu > > -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF 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 Contact FEMINISTSF-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 03:10:21 -0800 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: John Snead Subject: SF Authors In-Reply-To: <200011210614.AAA70504@listserv.uic.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I recently went to Orycon, the local SF con (in Portland OR). I hadn't been to a con for a few years. There were a surprising number of big to moderate name authors there, and I noticed that the author mix reminded me a lot of Anthropology departments when I was a grad student (late 80s, early 90s). Most (80%+ of the older (50+ and especially 60+) authors were male. OTOH, most (maybe 60-65%) of the younger authors were female. This isn't surprising since most fantasy is now written by women, but there were also at least as many younger female SF authors as younger male SF authors. It was quite encouraging. Has anyone else noticed this change? -John Snead sneadj@mindspring.com -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF 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 Contact FEMINISTSF-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 10:56:03 -0500 Reply-To: Heather D Mitchell Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Heather D Mitchell Subject: M. Atwood MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello All! I am new to the concept of 'feminism'. However, after taking a class at Indiana University I am a lot more aware of the issues involved. For this class I am reading Margaret Atwood's Surfacing. Has anyone read this book? I have found numerous ecological feminismistic issues in this book? And I would like to know if anyone has found different references in the book other than what I have not found. In particular, how the narrator has become more ecological aware of herself throught the novel. I would greatly appreciate any insight I csn get about this book. Thank you, Heather -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. 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