{"id":2720,"date":"2011-01-23T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T22:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/01\/23\/other-peoples-new-years-resolutions\/"},"modified":"2011-01-30T17:55:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T22:55:39","slug":"other-peoples-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/01\/23\/other-peoples-new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Other people’s new year’s resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nLike me, another science fiction reader\/blogger called Martin (Lewis in his case) found out he read shockingly little science fiction by women and decided to do something about it<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

\nOver Christmas I decided to do something about this: I would read and review one SF novel by a women every month in 2011. I appreciate this sounds pathetically modest but in the context of my current reading I\u2019m afraid it isn\u2019t. There were several SF novels by women already languishing on my shelves, bought but unread and in this state for some time. I rescued these and then topped them up from Amazon. This in itself was an eye-opener; almost all the books I searched for \u2013 even those which had only recently been published \u2013 were out of print.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nHe’s not the only one to set himself this challenge: so did Ian Sales<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

\nTorque Control\u2019s Women in SF Week has inspired me to read twelve science fiction novels by women writers during 2011 as my reading challenge. I\u2019ve tentatively identified the dozen novels I\u2019m going to read. I didn\u2019t want to pick only those published since 2001, although many are from the last decade. Nor would I limit myself to books published in the UK. But I did want my list to be comprise only authors I\u2019ve not read before (bar one or two slight cheats).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nAnd, neatly satisfying the law of threes, over at Torque Control<\/cite>, Vector<\/cite>‘s new editor Shana Worthen will be holding a monthly bookgroup<\/a> reading through the winners of last year’s poll of best sf novels by women published from 2001-2010.\n<\/p>\n

\nFor myself I had already decided last year I needed to read more female science fiction, spending the last months of year reading and rereading some writers I had neglected for too, like Lois McMaster Bujold, C. J. Cherryh and Mary Gentle. But perhaps I should try and set myself the same sort of goal as Ian and Martin as well, even if what I read is so depend on my mood and interests on any given day. So let’s pick a list of twelve books I can and should read this year, either science fiction or fantasy, all written by women:\n<\/p>\n