Kit Reed

More on her later but - I don't remember her being mentioned when I had various conversations with people asking for female sf writers active in the 1970s. And I don't recall anyone ever writing about her. Nor, for that matter, am I sure what prompted me to check whether this was a Christopher or a ... Christina? (Actually a Lillian.)

Today (yesterday) I read The Killer Mice, having ordered various volumes as part of a spending spree whilst sat in the Carbuncle cafe a week ago. I was very impressed - and first impressions puts her closer to the Angela Carter/Emma Tennant end of the feminist spectrum than Joanna Russ/Marge Piercy/Sally Miller Gearheart. Her story on feminist separatism ("Songs of War") is troubling, and I think I'd read it differently if I thought it were written by a man.

I shall reture to bed with Magic Time, which might be pairable with High Rise and Shivers.

Oh...

If you've in one breath a) asked me a favour and b) told me not to put myself out, please don't complain, even sweetly, if I appear to have not put myself out. Being put out is not always visible - and a kick in the teeth often offends.

(Obviously, this isn't about you.)