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September 4th, 2012, No Comments
Double Vision Tricia Sullivan 377 pages published in 2005 Karen “Cookie” Orbach’s life seems fairly mundane when looked at from the ouside: she hasa job with the Foreign Markets Research Division at Dataplex Corp, does karate as a hobby and a weightloss exercise, has no boyfriend or partner but does has a cat, eats too [...]
August 13th, 2012, No Comments
Hellflower Eluki bes Shahar 252 pages published in 1991 Eluki bes Shahar is a science fiction and fantasy writer better known as Rosemary Edghill, the form of her name she now prefers. She’s been active since the late eighties, starting her career writing straight romance novels, then moving on to science fiction and fantasy, most [...]
July 15th, 2012, No Comments
Barrayar Lois McMaster Bujold 386 pages published in 1991 Barrayar was actually the first ever Bujold story I ever read and I hated it. That’s because it was the last part of its serialisation in Analog that I read and I had no idea of what was going. Coming back to it now, after having [...]
July 8th, 2012, No Comments
Slow River Nicola Griffith 343 pages published in 1991 Everybody knows about the Bechdel test now, don’t they? Introduced in Dykes to Watch out For, it’s a test to see if a given story meets a minimum feminist standard: a) does it have at least two women, who b) talk to each other about c) [...]
July 1st, 2012, No Comments
We Who Are About To… Joanna Russ 170 pages published in 1975 We Who Are About To… is arguably Joanna Russ’ most famous and controversial novel after The Female Man. That novel became famous because of its outspoken feminism, still rare in science fiction at the time; if we’re honest, still somewhat rare today. We [...]
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