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([personal profile] faustus Apr. 30th, 2010 02:02 am)
Today was very much a reading day - although I'd hoped to get one more read as these are all rereads, and tend to come in at the 160 rather than 200 page count.

XLIX: Richard Cowper, Kuldesak (1972)
L: Richard Cowper, Time Out of Mind (1973)
LI: Richard Cowper, The Road to Corlay (1978)


Kuldesak is the real disappointment - postholocaust humans living like rabbits in underground tunnels. Time Out of Mind is a retread of Domino, with the protagonist having a vision of someone he has yet to meet and an instruction to kill someone. Finally - yes I skipped chronology - the first volume of the White Bird of Kinship trilogy, where the pipes of the martyr Thomas in a post-diluvial Britain are passed to a new leader. I had forgotten the present/near future thread of the narrative, and confess I can't see what purpose it serves beyond Cowper likes these double time schemes.

The post brought The Feminine Eye, which covers the right people, at least:

  • Arbur, Rosemarie "Leigh Brackett: No Long Goodbye' Is Good Enough", pp. 1-13
  • Mathews, Patricia "C. L. Moore's Classic Science Fiction", pp. 14-24.
  • Schlobin, R. C. "Andre Norton: Humanity Amid the Hardware", pp. 25-31.
  • Brizzi, M. T. "C. J. Cherryh and Tomorrow's New Sex Roles", pp. 32-47.
  • Frisch, Adam J. "Toward New Sexual Identities: James Tiptree, Jr.", pp. 48-59.
  • Barr, Marleen "Holding Fast to Feminism and Moving Beyond: Suzy McKee Charnas's The Vampire Tapestry", pp. 60-72.
  • Schwartz, S. M. "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ethic of Freedom", pp. 73-88.
  • Chapman, E. L. "Sex, Satire, and Feminism in the Science Fiction of Suzette Haden Elgin", pp. 89-102.
  • Yoke, C. B. "From Alienation of Personal Triumph: The Science Fiction of Joan D. Vinge", pp. 103-130.


Looking through, however, I see there are a couple of names I've overlooked, and more books need to be ordered. Sigh.
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