Women in Science Fiction Symposium Issue - Khatru (1975)

2009-01-03T23:41:43Z

158.64.14.22: dronbaselde

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[[Image:Khatru.gif|right]]The "Women in Science Fiction" symposium, initiated by [[Jeffrey D. Smith]], was a seven-month conversation about the position of women, as fans, writers and characters, in the historically male-dominated world of science fiction. It was conducted by letter and published in a double-issue (3&4) of the fanzine [[Khatru]] in November [[1975]]. Apart from Smith, the participants were [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], [[Samuel R. Delany]], [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], [[Vonda N. McIntyre]], [[Raylyn Moore]], [[Joanna Russ]], [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] (then believed by the other participants to be male), [[Luise White]], [[Kate Wilhelm]], [[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]], and [[Virginia Kidd]].

For the 10th [[Corflu]] convention in 1993, the symposium was reprinted with additional commentary from some of the original panelists as well as material by new participants [[Mog Decarnin]], [[Karen Joy Fowler]], [[Jeanne Gomoll]], [[Jane Hawkins]], [[Gwyneth Jones]] and [[Pat Murphy]].

This reprint is available via the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]] website.

=== External Links ===
* [http://www.tiptree.org/catalog.html#Khatru Tiptree Award Catalog: Khatru Fanzine Reprint]

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The Giant Killer

2009-01-03T22:33:01Z

158.64.14.22: taacelnoolo

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| Title = The Giant Killer
| Series = [[Xena: Warrior Princess]]
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| Season = 2
| Episode = 3
| Airdate = 1996/10/14
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| Writer = Terence Winter; Robert Field (editor)
| Director = Gary Jones
| Guests = Todd Rippon (Goliath); Anthony Starr (David)
| Episode list = [[List of Xena episodes]]
| Prev = [[Remember Nothing]]
| Next = [[Girls Just Wanna Have Fun]]
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Xena's friend Goliath is working for the Philistines, and gets involved in a fracas with Biblical mythic future king [[David and Jonathan]] (son of King Saul of the Israelites). The title is a reference to "Jack the Giant Killer" but the story had little if anything to do with that story.

A darker episode, with a sad ending.

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2009-01-03T22:01:14Z

158.64.14.22: sitcopasout

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2009-01-03T21:57:55Z

158.64.14.22: sitvic4ttal

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All About the Benjamins (WisCon 30 Panel)

2009-01-03T20:46:02Z

158.64.14.22: lilicoac

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Panelists: [[Kate Schaefer]], [[Eleanor Arnason]], [[Elizabeth Bear]], [[Avedon Carol]], [[Rebecca Maines]]

==External Links==
* [http://truepenny.livejournal.com/439751.html Sarah Monette's notes]

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Sheri S. Tepper

2009-01-03T20:24:03Z

158.64.14.22: linocolitra

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Author of many novels (stand-alone and in series) that focus on feminist issues, sexism, and [[ecofeminism]]. She is well known for her SF works, including SF, fantasy, and horror, and often a blending of the three. Under her A.J. Orde and B.J. Oliphant pseudonyms she also writes mysteries.

==Names==
Tepper has published a number of works under various [[initialisms]]: A. J. Orde, E. E. Horlak, and B. J. Oliphant. She has also published work, very early in her career, as Sheri S. Eberhart (her name before marriage, perhaps?).

==Discussion==
Much of Tepper's work deals in some respect with feminist issues. ''[[The Gate to Women's Country]]'' most directly deals with these issues however. A post-holocaust society has been designed by, and is controlled by, women. The protagonist of this story is a young woman throughout most of the story who has interactions both with the male society outside the gate to "women's country" and a Biblically fundamentalist society outside the territory controlled by the women's cities. The women's society has adopted a re-telling of the Iliad (from the women's perspectives) as one of it's fundamental myths. Tepper has been fairly successful in recent years and this novel has generated quite a bit of controversy in science fiction circles for its biological determinism and the ethical decisions made by the women who control the society.

Feminist strains run through almost all of Tepper's work, however: strong women people her books, and in the societies she envisions, she regularly explores the role of women in patriarchal societies. A dystopian theocratic patriarchal society (a far-future evolution of fundamentalist Christianity and Islam) is a major focus of ''[[Raising the Stones]]''; and another dystopian patriarchal society also is depicted in ''[[Sideshow (novel)|Sideshow]]''. Sexism and the subjugation of women, particularly as a function of religion (Catholicism), also are an important factor in ''[[Grass (novel)|Grass]]''. In her earlier works ([[Blood Heritage]], [[The Bones]], [[The Revenants]], [[SouthShore]] and [[NorthShore]]), elements of her interest in sexism and religion appear but are not fully developed. In her [[True Game series]] and the [[Marianne series]] these themes start to play a more important role in the plots, and in her recent fiction these themes become really important to the plots.

==Works==
* ''[[The Revenants]]''. Berkley Publishing. 1984.
* ''[[After Long Silence]]''. 1987. (published as The Enigma Score in the U.K.)
* ''[[The Gate to Women's Country]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Beauty (Tepper novel)|Beauty]]''. Doubleday. 1991.
* ''[[A Plague of Angels]]''. 1993.
* ''[[Shadow's End]]''. 1994.
* ''[[Gibbon's Decline and Fall]]''. New York: Bantam / Spectra, 1996.
* ''[[Family Tree]]'' 1997.
* ''[[Six Moon Dance]]''. 1998.
* ''[[Singer from the Sea]]''. 1999.
* ''[[The Fresco]]''. 2000.
* ''[[The Visitor]]''. 2002.
* ''[[The Companions]]''. 2003.
* ''[[The Margarets]]'' (2007 forthcoming)
* ''[[Still Life]]'' (1987) (as E. E. Horlak)

'''Loosely connected, same universe''':
* ''[[Grass (novel)|Grass]]''. Doubleday. 1989.
* ''[[Raising the Stones]]''. Doubleday. 1990.
* ''[[Sideshow (novel)|Sideshow]]''. Doubleday. 1992.

'''The Awakeners'''
* ''[[NorthShore]]'' (1987)
* ''[[SouthShore]]'' (1987)
* omnibus edition, ''The Awakeners'' (1987)

'''Marianne Trilogy'''
* ''[[Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore]]''. Ace Books. 1985.
* ''[[Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods]]''. Ace Books. 1988.
* ''[[Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse]]''. Ace Books. 1989.

'''The Books of the True Game''':
: ''Mavin Manyshaped'':
:* ''[[The Song of Mavin Manyshaped]]''. Ace Books. 1985.
:* ''[[The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped]]''. Ace Books. 1985.
:* ''[[The Search for Mavin Manyshaped]]''. Ace Books. 1985.
:* Omnibus edition: ''The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped'' (1985)

: ''Peter'':
:* ''[[King's Blood Four]]''. Ace Books. 1983. (Tepper's first published novel)
:* ''[[Necromancer's Nine]]''. Ace Books. 1983.
:* ''[[Wizard's Eleven]]''. Ace Books. 1984.
:* Omnibus edition ''The True Game'' (1985)

: ''Jinian'':
:* ''[[Jinian Star-Eye]]''. Tor Books. 1986.
:* ''[[Dervish Daughter]]'' Tor Books. 1986.
:* ''[[Jinian Footseer]]''. Tor Books. 1985.

: '''Mahlia/Badger''':
* ''[[Blood Heritage]]''. Tor Books. 1986.
* ''[[The Bones]]''. Tor Books. 1987.

===Short fiction===
* "The Gardener" (novella). Night Visions 6. Released as The Bone Yard (1988) in mass market. (vampire story). Collaboration with F. Paul Wilson and Ray Garton.
* "The Gazebo" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1990
* "Someone Like You" in Martin Greenberg's The Further Adventures of the Joker (1990)
* "Raccoon Music" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1991
* "The Gourmet" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October/November 1991

===Non-SFnal works===
'''Shirley McClintock series''' as B. J. Oliphant
* Dead in the Scrub. 3/1990: Fawcett, 0-449-14653-7. (first in series)
* The Unexpected Corpse. 12/1990: Fawcett, 0-449-14674-X.
* Deservedly Dead. 6/1992: Fawcett, 0-449-14717-7.
* Death and the Delinquent. 2/1993: Fawcett, 0-449-14718-5.
* Death Served Up Cold. 1994: Fawcett, 0-449-14896-3.
* A Ceremonial Death. 1996: Fawcett, 0-449-14897-1.
* Here's to the Newly Deads. 1997: Fawcett, 0-449-14992-7.

'''Jason Lynx series''' as A. J. Orde
* A Little Neighborhood Murder: A Jason Lynx Novel. 1989: Doubleday, 0385260377. (1992: Ballantine, ISBN 0-449-22026-5)
* Death and the Dogwalker: A Jason Lynx Novel. 1990: Doubleday, 03852667153. (1993: Fawcett, ISBN 0-449-22027-3)
* Dead on Sunday. 1991. (1994: Ballantine/Fawcett, 0-449-22282-9)
* Death for Old Time's Sake: A Jason Lynx Novel. 1992: Doubleday, 0385419414. (1994: Ballantine, 0-449-22193-8)
* Looking for the Aardvark. 1993: Doubleday, 0-385-41942-2. (also published in paperback as Dead on Sunday, 1994 ???)
* A Long Time Dead. 1995: Fawcett. 1994: Collins Crime, London, 000232539X.
* A Death of Innocents: A Jason Lynx Novel. 1996, 1997. 1997: Fawcett, 449225194.

===Poetry===
* "Lullaby, 1990" (poetry) in Galaxy December 1963 as Sheri S. Eberhart
* "Ballad of the Interstellar Merchants" (in Galaxy December 1964) as Sheri S. Eberhart

===Essays / Articles===
* "Extraterrestrial Trilogue" (Galaxy, December 1960, and August 1961) as Sheri S. Eberhart

===Published interviews===
* Locus. September, 1989, p. 15.
* Locus. August 1991, pp. 4, 69.
* Locus. July 1994, v. 33, no. 1, issue #402. pp. 4, 80-81.

==Awards & honors==
* Hugo nomination, 1990 for Grass
* New York Times Notable Book citation for Grass
* 1991, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, for Beauty
* Edgar nomination, Mystery Writers of America, for Dead in the Scrub
* 1996, shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, for Gibbon's Decline and Fall
* WisCon 22, Guest of Honor

==Criticism and reviews==
* Fitting, Peter. "Reconsiderations of the Separatist Paradigm in Recent Feminist Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies Volume 19 no. 1 (56) (March 1992), pages 32-48. Discusses Pamela Sargent's The Shore of Women, Joan Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean, and Sheri Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country.
* Levy, Michael. "Green SF and Eco Feminism." Originally published in IAFA Newsletter, Spring 1989 issues. Reprinted in Robert Collins and Robert Latham, editors, Science Fiction and Fantasy book Review Annual, 1989 Edition (Westport, CN: Meckler, 1990). "Review article of recent work by Octavia Butler, Nancy Kress, Pamela Sargent, and Sheri S. Tepper" -- ML.

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