Book of the New Sun won the contest!

James Wynn · 02 Aug 2011, 15:56 · from 2011-August.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:56:36 -0500
Subject: (urth) Book of the New Sun won the contest!
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1) Since this is a democratically selected list, you would probably have 
to limit the voting to exclusively to women to hope that a woman author 
would make the top 10. We're talking about authors whose work would 
inspire someone in high school or early college--at an age when a writer 
helps set the concrete of a reader's tastes. Stil, I wouldn't have been 
surprised to see "Frankenstein" on this list. But the most successful 
female authors among females in my experience are Rowling, Meyer, and 
Lackey. None of which are going to make this list. I haven't read "The 
Time Traveler's Wife". Is it as deserving of being on this list as "The 
Name of the Wind"?

2) The big names are Feminist authors whose work simply feels dated now 
(imagine a Pro-Suffrage SF writer).  LeGuin, Atwood, Yarboro...These are 
all skilled writers but their Great Works are essentially museum pieces 
to certain themes that were current in the 1970s. An exception IMO is 
Joanna Russ, whose novels are still worthwhile for study by budding 
writers -- but I'm not sure I'd call them pleasurable.

3) The woman authors whose work still carries today, do their best work 
in short story format: Tiptree, Willis, and Nancy Kress (yeah! I said it!).

On 7/28/2011 10:33 AM, Lane Haygood wrote:
> I thought for sure "The Left Hand of Darkness" would make it.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:27 AM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes"<danldo at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Sigh. Not a single book by a woman made the list.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Antonin Scriabin
>> <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Great!  Glad TBONS is getting a new edition ... another one for the
>>> collection :-)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Daniel Petersen
>>> <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Just got this in my inbox today... expect a snazzy new edition from
>>>> Gollancz!
>>>>
>>>> http://www.gollancz50.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -DOJP
>>>>
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