From LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Tue Feb 12 16:01:59 2002 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:48:06 -0600 From: "L-Soft list server at UIC (1.8d)" To: Laura Q Subject: File: "FEMINISTSF LOG0106C" ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:33:00 -0700 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Laura Quilter Subject: Sci Fi Channel adapting _Left Hand of Darkness_ and Earthsea trilogy Comments: To: feministsf@uic.edu, feministsf-lit@uic.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII fyi y'all -- Laura Quilter / lquilter@exo.net ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:57:09 -0400 From: Mary Anne Mohanraj http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/news.html The SCI FI Channel announced a development deal with Jaffe/Braunstein to develop an original miniseries based on Ursula Le Guin's groundbreaking SF novel The Left Hand of Darkness. Alan Jacobs will produce the four-hour miniseries. Earlier, SCI FI announced a deal with Lawrence Bender Productions to develop Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy of novels into a six-hour original miniseries. Both projects are slated for 2003. The Left Hand of Darkness, first published in 1969, tells the story of a human ambassador sent to persuade the inhabitants of an arctic planet to join a multiplanet alliance. The ambassador encounters a society with an ancient culture, whose members possess the ability to become male or female. Left Hand won both Hugo and Nebula awards. ***** -------------------------------------------------- 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@UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:08:49 -0600 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Mary-Ellen Maynard Subject: BDG - July's Reading Selection Comments: To: FEMINISTSF-LIT@listserv.uic.edu Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Discussion Groupers; Next month we¹re discussing; ³Always Coming Home² by Ursula Le Guin (with focus on framestory "Stone Telling", i.e. pp. 7-42, 173-202, 340-387). Readers - start your interlibrary loan, friendly local bookseller or other engines running. Discussion will be officially started by the nominator about the first Monday of July. Enjoy! Mellen For the BDG Volunteers Upcoming Books- 6 August: Brain Plague by Joan Slonczewski 3-4 September: The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman 1 October: The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter *************************************************************************** The BDG provides a forum for focusing discussion on a particular book during a one month period. The books discussed are nominated and chosen in advance by a vote of all members of the FSFFU-L list serve who choose to vote. Start thinking about your nominations now. To quote our list-mistress, "This does not prohibit discussion of the BDG books at other times; nor does it prohibit discussion of non-BDG books." If you have any other questions about the Book Discussion Group (BDG), it's selections, previous discussions or the Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopias Literature List Serve (FSFFU-L), you can start with the BDG website at; http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Comet/1304, or the FSFFU-L website at; http://www.exo.net/~lauraq/femsf/listserv/fsflit/ -------------------------------------------------- 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@UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:44:49 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Jesse the K Subject: "Nerve"'s Sex in SF issue In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Nerve, an online erotic magazine, has a special "Sex in SF" issue. www.nerve.com/specialIssues/speculativeSex/ Be warned: 1. Nerve is a highly-framed, Java-overgrown, browser-sniffing site, hostile to text browsers. 2. rest of this post includes excerpts, which discuss SM. The issue includes an interview with Samuel L Delaney: -----------[ begin forward ]----------- [Scott Westerfield, interviewer]: Do you think the alternate worlds of science fiction create a space for alternate sexualities? SD: I think that's a question that, even in its formation, pretty much answers itself ^Ë that is to say, the question acknowledges that one's sexuality is, indeed, part of one's reality. The late John Preston wrote an essay in which he goes to an SM function, and there encounters many of the same people he's seen previously at sf conventions. There's a certain kind of person who wants to be in a rich semiotic environment that talks about what you desire, rather than an impoverished semiotic environment. In the "real world," all you get is a yellow handkerchief to show what you want. SW: Hell, straight people don't even get that. I was recently at Norwescon in Seattle, and there was a huge showing of latex, leather, fairy wings and slave gear among the broadswords and Klingon costumes. SD: SF cons are places that are just saturated with signs about what you are ^Ë or what you could be. There's all this stuff that makes it easier to express desire, and attendant narratives that anchor you socially. SW: Can you think of another way to say "rich semiotic environment"? The Nerve editors are nervous about this sounding jargon-y. -----------[ forward ends ]----------- an essay by Cecilia Tan, publisher of Circlet Press: -----------[ begin forward ]----------- Which brings us to the obvious question: Why are so many sf geeks pervs, and vice-versa? Why the overlap between these two communities? Maybe it's something as simple as the dramatic quality of both worlds (so many personas, so little time). Maybe it's the way both science fiction and SM can press the limits of their genres, pushing literature into speculative poetry, pleasure into pain ^Ë making everything just a little bit more heightened. Or maybe it's just the fact that so many sex radicals and sf fans perceive themselves as outsiders, and thus find a bond ^Ë erotically and intellectually ^Ë with others who feel shoved outside the circle of the "normal." -----------[ forward ends ]----------- An excerpt from a novel in progress by Christopher Barzak ... opening paragraph: -----------[ begin forward ]----------- I'm leaning against a wall in the Miro District when the Doctor comes by to say he wants me as a girl. I tell him there are plenty of girls, just look around, and I point to a few girls who sit in the center of the square on the edge of the stone fountain. The women gather there, safety in numbers. The Doctor says, "No, not a girl. I don't want a girl. I want you as a girl." He holds a needle up that's filled with a green liquid. Looks like a fungus cocktail, but I know better. With the Doctor it's never so simple. -----------[ forward ends ]----------- And a short story, "Singularity" by Kathy Koje, about someone who wishes to have sex with a black hole. -- Jesse the K -- Madison, WI USA -- mailto:jesse_the_k@yahoo.com -[ Kindly forgive asynchrony; I read via digest ]- -------------------------------------------------- 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@UIC.EDU if there are problems.