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Mervi2012
Posted 2016-11-22 6:36 AM (#14622 - in reply to #12239)
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China Mieville's "the City and the City" was indeed quite different. It doesn't have fantasy (or scifi) elements as such, but it does have a divided city. Beszel is a divided city but not in a physical way. Inside and beside it is another city, Ul Qoma, which is different legally, culturally, and especially in the minds of the citizens of both city states. Daily, they see the buildings and people of the other city but must ignore and unsee them. If they dont, they are guilty of a breach which the most heinous crime either city has. Breaches are governed by the mysterious organization called the Breach. They are the bogie men making sure that the citizens of two cities keep apart from each other. This book is really a hard-broiled detective story but in fantastical cities.

I just finished "Women of Futures Past: Classic Stories" edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. It has 12 science fiction short stories from various female writers and an excellent introduction from Rusch were she writes about how and why people seem to forget that women have been writing SF since the beginning. Short stories from women are not collected into anthologies and so are forgotten and ignored, even when the books women write are (sometimes) still in print. Stories by Bujold, McCaffrey, Zenna Hendriksen, Pat Cadigan, Cherryh, LeGuin, James Tiptree Jr., Andren Norton, Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, Connie Willis, and Nancy Kress. Some of them are excellent.

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