Interesting Links for 09-09-2013

[andrewducker]

• Why women still have to use pen names in science fiction (and comics)
  (tags: scifi comics women )
• E-cigarettes more effective than nicotine patches
  (tags: cigarettes nicotine health )
• Top tip: If you wave at the bears then they will wave back.
  (tags: bears )
• Understanding Sex Work in an Open Society
  (tags: viasupergee sexwork society )
• Dubstep:

Comments

[philmophlegm]

I wonder if there are any male romantic or historical fiction or whodunnit authors who use female or neutral pen names?

[bart_calendar]

Does Nancy Drew count?

[andrewducker]

I'm fairly sure that "Bart Calendar" is a pseudonym for a feminist collective.

[bart_calendar]

If only!

[bart_calendar]

Of course. Attwood has managed to write incredibly well received science fiction while still being overtly female.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/books/review/maddaddam-by-margaret-atwood.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[xenophanean]

She famously denies being a science fiction writer, which has the perverse effect of making the science fiction community furiously declare that she *is* one.

To be fair, one of the lead proponents of this, is her big fan, Ursula Le Guin (also an excellent sci-fi writer).

[bart_calendar]

She certainly is a sci-fi writer despite her protesting that fact.

[xenophanean]

Indeed so, however the dogged insistence, from a community where other female writers have such trouble being recognized is an amusing irony. Which is possibly why she still does it.