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Location: Dallas, Texas | I just realized I never made a thread for this challenge. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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Location: Austin, Tx | Recommending: Despatches From the Frontiers of the Female Mind
It's a short story collection from 1985, not in print anymore but looks pretty cheap used on Amazon US. As with any book of feminist fiction, quite a few of the stories deal with "political" issues such as reproductive rights and equality, but there are plenty that don't (if you're the type of person who doesn't like "issue" stories).
For this challenge, it was a cool way to sample lots of female authors (including Gwyneth Jones and Raccoona Sheldon/James Tiptree Jr) writing about women. |
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Location: UK | I've only read 4 books so far for this challenge,but they have all been great reads. Finally read Leigh Brackett's classic The Long Tomorrow,which,predictably,back in 1955 wasnt even nominated for any awards,but now is up there with the best. An even handed look at a post nuclear world terrified by any thought of a resurgence in the tech that destroyed the world,but where minds still thirst for knowledge. Brackett skilfully embeds her themes within the conflicts her characters face,bringing humanity to the dilemmas,and no didactic answers. Impressive,so glad I finally got round to reading it. |
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Location: SC, USA | Dusty, I discovered Leigh Brackett as a random read back in the first WoGF challenge and have been a fan since! I know that you like to read mysteries too, so if you can find it, you should read her hard-boiled mystery--No Good from a Corpse--better than Sam Spade and maybe better than Marlowe. |
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Location: UK | Oh- oh,Rhonda,stepping on shaky ground with your Chandler comment. I fell for Philip Marlowe when I was 15. I am 100% for Marlowe in the Chandler/Hammett debate! |
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Location: SC, USA | Dusty, I love Chandler too. Brackett's style is up with his and her plotting is better in No Good, in my opinion. I think Hammett's best writing is in The Thin Man. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Check out this great series of posts over on SF Signal about great women to read. A good source of recs for the WoGF. http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2015/07/guest-post-c-wise-women-read-start-july-2015-edition/ |
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Location: Austin, Tx | I took the plunge to Master level. I was debating, but looking at the books I've purchased on Kindle over the last year, I think I can read all of these even though it will be more of a challenge than my other challenges just out of sheer number.
It's great to have so many debut women authors that I can read (and still a smattering of long established authors). |
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Location: Austin, Tx | This one was me. Could have sworn I was logged in. >.<
I also had the thought, looking at my lineup, that I'm going to have to go out and look for new women authors to read as I'm starting to have read all of the big ones already. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Hey, everyone, we just added a new list to the site that should be an excellent resource for the WoGF. Check it out. 
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2015 Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge