Comments | cassiphone: Oh, that's how it works

cassiphone

Oh, that's how it works

Jul 27, 2009 17:22

Today, having hit my word count and conquered the mighty BAS (bleh tax, bleh) and done at least one more thing from my List O Doom, home with a sick child (eyes child suspiciously, for a given value of 'sick', anyway) I spent the afternoon decadently reading The Wiscon Chronicles, a series of books from Aqueduct Press containing much of the wit, ( Read more... )

writing, pregnancy, reading

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thebellman July 27 2009, 10:40:52 UTC

"...comparing Alice, Dorothy and Clara of the Nutcracker with Inanna and Persephone's journeys through the underworld..."

blast. Now I'm intrigued, and am making connections in my mind.

transcendancing July 27 2009, 17:43:57 UTC

I'd love to read a copy of that comparison you were reading?

cassiphone July 27 2009, 21:36:12 UTC

The article is in The Wiscon Chronicles 2, edited by L. Timmel Duchamp and available from Aqueduct Press - I ordered a boxful of books from them a couple of weeks ago and was really impressed by price & speed of recovery.

I'm working on a review for all 3 volumes of the Wiscon Chronicles but anyone with an interest in feminist SF discussions will get huge value out of each volume - the panel transcripts and other stuff are awesome, as are the various academic papers.