There's this bit I love in The Jane Austen Book Club where Grigg is talking about growing up in a house full of girls and delving into this world of sci-fi and fantasy as a bonding thing with his father. And then later discovering that he was still surrounded by women, like Le Guin and Norton.
Weirdly, my favourite Atwood is Alias Grace, which, when I studied it for honours, I had a kind of encyclopaedic knowledge of and used to confuse my classmates with my ability to recount minor plot details.
(Also, three Gaiman books on the one list? Kind of overkill. I mean, he's good but he's not that amazing.)
More books I haven't read! *adds to list* I'm a shocker about Atwood, I've started The Blind Assassin a few times but read hardly anything by her other than The Handmaid's Tale.
It's actually four. I personally would have put down Sandman and then stopped. It's just that he's SO well-known that people could vote for their individual favourites and still have enough to get them in - I do sort of think that one-book-per-player would have been a good choice.
Alias Grace is excellent. Feminist historical mystery about a woman in prison, for murdering her employer and his mistress. It has a lot of quilting in it - which really annoyed my lecturer because all the critical resources on the novel were about the significance and symbolism of the quilts.
Connie Willis, Naomi Novik, Suzette Haden Elgin (awesome trilogy about aliens and linguistics), Diana Wynne Jones, Kristin Cashore, etc, etc, etc. And that's just the women. IOW, yes. I haven't done the meme because the list is such that I can't bring myself to care (even if it does have some of my formative influences on it). I'm not a big SF/F reader anyway, but yeah. It's like Simon Scharma's Power of Art documentary series: it was a good series that was made significantly less powerful (and more annoying) by its exclusive focus on dead white male artists.
Hey, maybe someone should make a list of 100 SF/F books by women and people of colour, and let that meme its way around the internet.
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There's this bit I love in The Jane Austen Book Club where Grigg is talking about growing up in a house full of girls and delving into this world of sci-fi and fantasy as a bonding thing with his father. And then later discovering that he was still surrounded by women, like Le Guin and Norton.
Weirdly, my favourite Atwood is Alias Grace, which, when I studied it for honours, I had a kind of encyclopaedic knowledge of and used to confuse my classmates with my ability to recount minor plot details.
(Also, three Gaiman books on the one list? Kind of overkill. I mean, he's good but he's not that amazing.)
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It's actually four. I personally would have put down Sandman and then stopped. It's just that he's SO well-known that people could vote for their individual favourites and still have enough to get them in - I do sort of think that one-book-per-player would have been a good choice.
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Hey, maybe someone should make a list of 100 SF/F books by women and people of colour, and let that meme its way around the internet.
/Britta
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