Two reading memes about SF by women

[nwhyte]

Usual rules: bold if you've read, strike through if you hated, italics if it's on the shelf waiting to be read.

Both these lists are from Ian Sales. The first is his list of "Mistressworks":

Comments

[mizkit]

I've read ten of the first list, none of the second, and not heard of at least 70% of either list.

[bopeepsheep]

Twelve from the first list, two from the second.

[communicator]

I've read 17 of the women's press books. I thought I'd read more or less everything they published back in the 1980s. I certainly bought every one I saw in the shops back in those days.

23 from the long list, not many recent ones

[nwhyte]

I'm glad that you recommend Ellen Galford; but what do you think of her book???

*rim-shot*

[coth]

I've read 73 out of 91, 32 out of 37. Classic or no classic, I have bounced off Swastika Night several times, but apart from that I have no particularly strong feelings about any I haven't read, and that along with some of the others are on my shelves waiting.

The Women's Press people took tables at British conventions for a few years around the end of the Eighties - I remember them on Jersey and in Blackpool particularly. They commented to me more than once that at SF conventions men were buying and clearly reading their books - it was not at all their usual experience.