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Three Observations and a Dialogue: Round and About SF (Conversation Pieces #24)
Three Observations and a Dialogue Round and About SF - Conversation Pieces #24 Author:Sylvia Kelso After WisCon 20, Sylvia Kelso engaged Lois McMaster Bujold in a rich, snappy correspondence about Bujold's Vorkosigan novels. ''You ... remark that '[my] post-modern despair is not [your] emergency' over the failure of feminism to transform SF,'' she wrote to Bujold. ''My postmodern despair OUGHT to be your emergency, buen' amiga, because one of... more » the reasons you are being ignored is that ... you don't fit the male canon either in the community or the critical industry; so unless you catch their eyes with a sand-blaster like The Left Hand of Darkness, the male academics are also gonna find you invisible...'' That correspondence became ''Letterspace: In the Chinks Between Published Fiction and Published Criticism,'' which is published here. Also included are ''Third Person Peculiar: Reading between Academic and SF-Community Positions in (Feminist) Sf,'' a critical essay discussing the intricacies of an Australian feminist scholar writing about science fiction; ''Tales of Earth: Terraforming in Recent Women s Sf,'' which considers colonialism in science fiction by women; and ''Loud Achievements: Lois McMaster Bujold s Science Fiction through 1997,'' which closely examines Bujold's Vorkosigan novels.« less