{"id":2552,"date":"2010-10-13T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2010-10-13T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T20:00:14","slug":"women-writing-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/10\/13\/women-writing-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Women writing science fiction!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/everythingisnice.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/12\/women-and-british-science-fiction-redux\/\">What Martin said<\/a>. <em>But<\/em>. Here&#8217;s my own record on reading female science fiction writers during the last ten years (2001-2010):\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>Serpent\u2019s Reach<\/cite> &#8212;  C. J. Cherryh<\/li>\n<li><cite>Pride of Chanur<\/cite> &#8212;   C. J. Cherryh<\/li>\n<li><cite>To Say Nothing of the Dog<\/cite> &#8212;  Connie Willis<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Sparrow<\/cite> &#8212;  Mary Doria Russell<\/li>\n<li><cite>Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus<\/cite> &#8212;  Mary Shelley<\/li>\n<li><cite>Shards of Honor<\/cite> &#8212;  Lois McMaster Bujold<\/li>\n<li><cite>Tea from an Empty Cup<\/cite> &#8212;  Pat Cadigan<\/li>\n<li><cite>Sideshow<\/cite> &#8212;  Sheri S. Tepper<\/li>\n<li><cite>Picnic on Paradise<\/cite> &#8212;  Joanna Russ<\/li>\n<li><cite>Dervish is Digital<\/cite> &#8212;  Pat Cadigan<\/li>\n<li><cite>Sign of the Labrys<\/cite> &#8212;  Margaret St. Clair<\/li>\n<li><cite>In the Garden of Iden<\/cite> &#8212;  Kage Baker<\/li>\n<li><cite>Sky Coyote<\/cite> &#8212;  Kage Baker<\/li>\n<li><cite>Diplomatic Immunity<\/cite> &#8212;  Lois McMaster Bujold<\/li>\n<li><cite>Nine Layers of Sky<\/cite> &#8212;  Liz Williams<\/li>\n<li><cite>Heavy Time<\/cite> &#8212;  C. J. Cherryh<\/li>\n<li><cite>Hellburner<\/cite> &#8212;  C. J. Cherryh<\/li>\n<li><cite>Mendoza in Hollywood<\/cite> &#8212;  Kage Baker<\/li>\n<li><cite>Ammonite<\/cite> &#8212;  Nicola Griffith<\/li>\n<li><cite>1610: a Sundial in a Grave<\/cite> &#8212;  Mary Gentle<\/li>\n<li><cite>Farthing<\/cite> &#8212;  Jo Walton<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Secret of Sinharat<\/cite> &#8212;  Leigh Brackett<\/li>\n<li><cite>People of the Talisman<\/cite> &#8212;  Leigh Brackett<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Best of C. L. Moore<\/cite> &#8212;  C. L. Moore<\/li>\n<li><cite>Cetaganda<\/cite> &#8212;  Lois McMaster Bujold<\/li>\n<li><cite>Ha\u2019Penny<\/cite> &#8212; Jo Walton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nFor comparison, <a href=\"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/fiction-science-fiction\/\">the complete list of science fiction<\/a> read in that time. that&#8217;s twentysix books by female authors out of a total of roughly 300 books, or less than ten percent. In other words, it would be a bit cheeky to join in the discussion about <a href=\"http:\/\/vectoreditors.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/05\/women-and-the-clarke\/\">the real or percieved rarity of female science fiction writers and the lack of recognition they get<\/A> considering how bad my own record is. There are reasons for this gender imbalance in my reading of course: most of my favourite writers just happen to be male, I at any rate tend to cluster my reading, with some writers (like Charlie Stross or Poul Anderson) getting a lot of repeat custom, which doesn&#8217;t help either. It&#8217;s not therefore that I deliberately avoid female science fiction writers, more that my unstructured reading for pleasure means my reading is biased unconsciously towards male authors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf I want to do something about this, I have to consciously balance out that bias, by forcing myself to seek out women writers rather than just reading what I want. I don&#8217;t have to do that of course, but if I am worried about this gender imbalance in my favourite genre of fiction, I need to walk the walk as well as talk the talk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo&#8230; Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Martin said. But. Here&#8217;s my own record on reading female science fiction writers during the last ten years (2001-2010): Serpent\u2019s Reach &#8212; C. J. Cherryh Pride of Chanur &#8212; C. J. Cherryh To Say Nothing of the Dog &#8212; Connie Willis The Sparrow &#8212; Mary Doria Russell Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus &#8212; Mary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}