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[drasecretcampus]

The 50 SF Books You Must Read @ Forbidden Planet

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[dalmeny]

can you guess what the other three books by women are?

Alas, I could, although I did wonder if they would include more than one book by a single author.

[owlfish]

That makes me feel better about the outrage on Twitter the other week by people not at the Eastercon session I was at who were outraged that Le Guin was *not discussed* in a particular panel on women in sf. If they were coming from this list, they would have every reason to object.

[drasecretcampus]

I missed this - can you precis?

[owlfish]

Sorry - I was unnecessarily terse

[owlfish]

In short, if you don't say anything about Le Guin, you clearly have nothing worth saying about women in sf more generally.

[fjm]

whimper.

As You Know, Bob

[drasecretcampus]

Kindred, Frankenstein, Kairos, The Handmaid's Tale, Clones, Brown Girl in the Ring, Fools, The Passion of New Eve, Swastika Night, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Dreamsnake, Downbelow Station, The Snow Queen, We Who Are About To..., The Heritage of Hastur, Motherlines, Native Tongue, The White Dragon, Maul, Natural History, Slow River - off the top of my head - are 21 sf novels you must read. I'd probably want to include one of the Patternist novels too - perhaps the omnibus which omits Survivor to get four on the list for the price of one.

ETA a Tiptree collection, of course. There's no multivolume collected stories is there? How complete is Her Smoke Rose Up Forever?

Re: As You Know, Bob

[fjm]

It's not bad. But one day NESFA ought to tackle her.