that climate change trilogy

[mizkit]

If you've been reading my blog for more than five minutes you've heard me talk about wanting to write a near-future SF trilogy around the subject of climate change. It's a passion of mine, having grown up in Alaska, where the effects of climate change have been brutally visible during my lifetime

Comments

[mevennen]

I think it's a fantastic idea, but agree with your reservations about naming, given the current position of most female SF writers in this part of the world (UK, Ireland). At present it's a bit like Highlander - there can be only one with a publishing contract. Was Jaine and now is Tricia! (not sure whether Gwyneth has a contract for SF currently). I don't know what one does about it.

I'd read it, though!

[la_marquise_de_]

It would definitely be brilliant.
Men get more reviews in big circulation venues, more of the promotional space and money, more opportunities to display their wares, and more public attention. We don't have a level playing field.
But we are here and we are good and we will write, so there.

[st_rev]

Ironic then that the hands-down best SF comic ever is Carla Speed McNeil's Finder.

[flit]

Oh my gosh YES. So good.

[kirbyk]

I have mixed feelings on the whole thing.

One the one hand, the system will never change unless we fight it! Rarr, women power, rarr! The more actually good SF books written by women, the fewer idiots who will promote the conventional wisdom that women don't write good SF books.

On the other hand, it's your career and that money pays for actual cheerios and coats. And one doesn't jeopardize that lightly on an abstract principle.

But given that it's not /my/ money, I tend to favor the former.

[chrysoula]

I have no idea how to fight the idea that some people have that the only difference between Anne and Todd McCaffrey is their gender, so of course any differences in their writing style must be attributed to their gender. And yet it's ideas like that which ultimately must be fought. Otherwise any woman who breaks out of that mold is simply an exception.

[tuftears]

I would generally urge you to stick with your favored name. There's nothing wrong with being an author who can cover a wide range of genres! No one criticizes Lois McMaster Bujold for writing both fantasy and science fiction under her name...

And being a recognized name may help sell books. If you wrote under a pseudonym, you'd have to build up name awareness for the pseudonym too.