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( XXIX: Clifford D. Simak, The Visitors (1980) )

( XXX: John Baxter, The Fall of Hermes (1978) )

I've saved this up to discuss all of these at once - a month back I read Kit Reed for the first time, and was blown away by her short stories. So I went away and ordered three of her novels published during the 1970s.

( XXXI: Kit Reed, The Killer Mice (1976) )

( XXXII: Kit Reed, Tiger Rag (1973) )

( XXXIII: Kit Reed, The Ballad of T. Rantula (1979) )

( XXXIV: Kit Reed, Magic Time (1980) )

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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.