And you're going to do a panel on this stuff, right? (Nag nag nag) I would love to hear what you have to say further.
I have such a love-hate thing with SF/F. I actually swore off SF for many years after coming to see that genre as a boy's-only club. I kept reading fantasy because women at least had a place at the table there, even if sometimes it isn't exactly always a revolutionary or progressive place, lol. And sometimes they even let the gay people in (older) fantasy stories! Briefly, but they had a walk-on part at least.
Sometimes I think SF/F is getting better in terms of gender/sex/preference issues. I feel encouraged that I am running across authors who have characters all over the map and yet don't make that a heavy theme of their books . . .gender and preference diversity just IS part of the character pantheon, like hair color. Several of you that did that Penguicon 5.0 panel make me feel encouraged and I have several of those folk's books on my keeper shelf. :-)
Then I will read some awful SF book (because Mr. Neanderthal is speaking at a local con) and I just want to turn my back forever on a genre that heartily supports June Cleaver in crotchless panties as the only suitable role for women in SF. And glbt people? Don't ask, don't tell.
So I love it . . .I hate it. I pick up three or four SF/F books because I love them, then I run over to literary fiction the next month to escape what I hate in SF/F. *sigh*
I keep hoping that there is a real "movement" brewing among younger SF/F authors, something like the New Wave SF writers in the late sixties early seventies but also completely different.
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So...you are going to WIscon, right?
Date: 2007-04-25 05:48 pm (UTC)I have such a love-hate thing with SF/F. I actually swore off SF for many years after coming to see that genre as a boy's-only club. I kept reading fantasy because women at least had a place at the table there, even if sometimes it isn't exactly always a revolutionary or progressive place, lol. And sometimes they even let the gay people in (older) fantasy stories! Briefly, but they had a walk-on part at least.
Sometimes I think SF/F is getting better in terms of gender/sex/preference issues. I feel encouraged that I am running across authors who have characters all over the map and yet don't make that a heavy theme of their books . . .gender and preference diversity just IS part of the character pantheon, like hair color. Several of you that did that Penguicon 5.0 panel make me feel encouraged and I have several of those folk's books on my keeper shelf. :-)
Then I will read some awful SF book (because Mr. Neanderthal is speaking at a local con) and I just want to turn my back forever on a genre that heartily supports June Cleaver in crotchless panties as the only suitable role for women in SF. And glbt people? Don't ask, don't tell.
So I love it . . .I hate it. I pick up three or four SF/F books because I love them, then I run over to literary fiction the next month to escape what I hate in SF/F. *sigh*
I keep hoping that there is a real "movement" brewing among younger SF/F authors, something like the New Wave SF writers in the late sixties early seventies but also completely different.