Science fiction, and women, and lists, and plots.
Originally published at tansyrr.com. You can comment here or there.
It’s Women in Science Fiction week over at Torque Control - Niall Harrison has been blogging about his personal top 10 female-authored SF books of the last decade and will shortly be compiling the results of a poll to answer the same question. My list, you might recall, was posted back here. Okay, that was the cheaty list of 15 before I whittled it down, but there is no overlap at all between his list and mine! Worst of all, I haven’t even READ any of the books on Niall’s list, not even Life, or Living-Next-Door-To-The-God-Of Love or Maul, which had been on my To Read list since it was first published.
I was determined to read at least three of the 2010 SF-books-by-female-authors-published-in-Britain list by now, and have only managed one, Feed, which I will be reviewing later this week.
In fact my plan is to blog something about women & science fiction every day all week, in solidarity with Torque Control, and also to revive my flagging bloggity spirit of recent months. I have several posts planned, some reviews, some stuff-I’ve-been-thinking, mostly thanks to doing lots of driving today while listening to Jonathan, Gary, John Clute & Cheryl Morgan talk about crunchy science fictional critic type things. So stay tuned!
If you’re blogging in any way about women & SF this week, deliberately or just because it’s a most excellent thing to blog about, drop me a link in the comments! I’d love to read what you’re writing, and I’ll try for a links round up on the weekend.