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Láadan Working Group

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== Possibilities ==

A space for us to talk about possible plans for propagating Láadan online, and starting up some new discussions.

The website could include:

* The glossary (in the database, wherever hosted)
* Online lesson plans / workbooks (but do we need to be careful to not cut out market for print?)
* Order forms for print copies
* Examples of translated texts
* Theoretical information about Láadan, Sapir-Whorf, etc.
* Fun & cool ways for people to actually talk in Láadan, such as a chatroom, or perhaps a blog with Láadan/other lang. columns in parallel?
* Study guides for setting up local Láadan study & discussion groups
* Add more ideas to the brainstorm here!

== People ==

People who contribute to Láadan, and who are interested in contributing, learning, documenting, extending, practicing, or other projects.

* Suzette Haden Elgin
* Liz Henry
* Jackie Powers
* Laura Quilter
* Amberwind Barnhart
* Catriona

== Admin / Legal ==

A coordinating group to be named later (or sooner rather than later) consisting of:

* Suzette Haden Elgin
* Liz Henry
* Jackie Powers
* Laura Quilter

== Links ==

===Official Documentation===
* Online [http://jackiepowers.com/Laadan/L-EDictionary.html Láadan to English dictionary], transcribed and organized by Jackie Powers. ''in progress''
* [http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/NativeTongue/ladaanlang.html Suzette Haden Elgin's Láadan pages] Some documentation, bibliography, history.
*[http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/Laadan.html Láadan, the Constructed Language in ''Native Tongue''] by [[Suzette Haden Elgin]] (1994)
* [http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/LaadanLessons/index.html Láadan Made Easier] Online tutorial.

===Online Discussion Groups===
* LiveJournal: [http://community.livejournal.com/laadan/profile Láadan LJ community]
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laadan/ Láadan Yahoo! group]
* http://forums.feministsf.net/ Láadan discussion boards at the FSF forums (http://Forums.feministsf.net/)

===Other Resources===
* [[Láadan]] entry in the FSFwiki

[[category:FSFNet Working Groups]]

Láadan Working Group

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== Possibilities ==

A space for us to talk about possible plans for propagating Láadan online, and starting up some new discussions.

The website could include:

* The glossary (in the database, wherever hosted)
* Online lesson plans / workbooks (but do we need to be careful to not cut out market for print?)
* Order forms for print copies
* Examples of translated texts
* Theoretical information about Láadan, Sapir-Whorf, etc.
* Fun & cool ways for people to actually talk in Láadan, such as a chatroom, or perhaps a blog with Láadan/other lang. columns in parallel?
* Study guides for setting up local Láadan study & discussion groups
* Add more ideas to the brainstorm here!

== People ==

People who contribute to Láadan, and who are interested in contributing, learning, documenting, extending, practicing, or other projects.

* Suzette Haden Elgin
* Liz Henry
* Jackie Powers
* Laura Quilter
* Amberwind Barnhart
* Catriona

== Admin / Legal ==

A coordinating group to be named later (or sooner rather than later) consisting of:

* Suzette Haden Elgin
* Liz Henry
* Jackie Powers
* Laura Quilter

== Links ==

* Online [http://jackiepowers.com/Laadan/L-EDictionary.html Láadan to English dictionary], transcribed and organized by Jackie Powers. ''in progress''

* LiveJournal: [http://community.livejournal.com/laadan/profile Láadan LJ community]

* [http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/NativeTongue/ladaanlang.html Suzette Haden Elgin's Láadan pages] Some documentation, bibliography, history.
*[http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/Laadan.html Láadan, the Constructed Language in ''Native Tongue''] by [[Suzette Haden Elgin]] (1994)

* [http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/LaadanLessons/index.html Láadan Made Easier] Online tutorial.
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laadan/ Láadan Yahoo! group]

* [[Láadan]] entry in the FSFwiki

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Gioconda Belli

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==Bibliography==

* ''[[The Inhabited Woman]]'' (first novel; translated into English from Spanish)
* ''[[The Country Under My Skin]]'' (memoir; available in English)
* ''[[Eve's Rib]]'' (poetry collection; available in English)

[[category:Writers|Belli, Giaconda]]
[[category:Spanish-Language Writers|Belli, Giaconda]]

Gioconda Belli

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Glenda Adams

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=Bibliography=

* ''[[Games of the Strong]]''

[[Category:Writers|Adams, Glenda]]
[[Category:Australian Writers|Adams, Glenda]]

Glenda Adams

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=Bibliography=

* ''[[Games of the Strong]]''

[[category:Writers|Adams, Glenda]]

Joan Slonczewski

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==Bibliography==

* [[A Door Into Ocean]]

==categories & tags==
[[category:1956 Births|Slonczewski, Joan]]
[[category:Writers|Slonczewski, Joan]]

Josephine Saxton

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[[category:1935 Births|Saxton, Josephine]] [[category:Writers|Saxton, Josephine]]

Lisa Goldstein

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==Pseudonyms==

* Isabel Glass

==External Links==

* http://www.brazenhussies.net/goldstein/

[[category:Writers|Goldstein, Lisa]]

Rosemary Kirstein

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'''Rosemary Kirstein''' is an American author who lives in the Boston area. She is a member of the writing group [[The Genrettes]].

== Bibliography ==

'''The Steerswoman Series'''
*''[[The Steerswoman]]'' ([[1989]])
*''[[The Outskirter's Secret]]'' ([[1992]])
*''[[The Steerswoman's Road]]'' ([[2003]] omnibus of ''The Steerswoman'' & ''The Outskirter's Secret'')
*''[[The Lost Steersman]]'' ([[2003]])
*''[[The Language of Power]]'' ([[2004]])
*''[[The City in the Crags]]'' (forthcoming)

== External Links ==

[http://www.sfrevu.com/ISSUES/2003/0308/Rosemary%20Kirstein%20Interview/Review.htm SFRevu Interview of Rosemary Kirstein by Laurie J. Marks]

[[category:Writers|Kirstein, Rosemary]]

Category:Canadians

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People whose citizenship is Canadian.

[[Category:People by Nationality]]

Robert J. Sawyer

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Canadian science fiction writer. Married to Carolyn Klink.

==Novels==
*Golden Fleece
*Mindscan
===Neanderthal Parallax===
*Hominids
*Humans
*Hybrids
===The Quintaglio Ascension===
*Far-Seer
*Fossil Hunter
*Foreigner

==External Links==
http://www.sfwriter.com/

[[category:Writers|Sawyer, Robert J.]][[category:Canadians|Sawyer, Robert J.]]
[[Category:Canadian Writers|Sawyer, Robert J.]]

Ursula K. Le Guin

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'''Ursula Kroeber Le Guin''' (born [[October 21]] [[1929]] in Berkeley, California) is an [[American]] author of [[science fiction]], [[fantasy]], realistic fiction and poetry.

She won four [[Hugo Award]] and three [[Nebula Award]].

== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===

*''[[Always Coming Home]]'' ([[1985]], Harper & Row)
*''[[The Beginning Place]]'' ([[1980]], Harper & Row; UK title: Threshold)
*''[[City of Illusions]]'' ([[1967]], Ace) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[The Dispossessed|The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia]]'' ([[1974]], Harper & Row) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[The Eye of the Heron]]'' ([[1982]], Victor Gollancz)
*''[[The Farthest Shore]]'' ([[1972]], Atheneum) [[Earthsea]], book 3
*''[[Gifts]]'' ([[2004]], Harcourt) [[Western Shore]], book 1
*''[[The Lathe of Heaven]]'' ([[1971]], Scribner)
*''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]'' ([[1969]], Ace) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Malafrena]]'' ([[1979]], Putnam)
*''[[The Other Wind]]'' ([[2001]], Harcourt) [[Earthsea]], book 6
*''[[Planet of Exile]]'' ([[1966]], Ace Double) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Rocannon's World]]'' ([[1966]], Ace Double) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Tehanu|Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea]]'' ([[1990]], Atheneum) [[Earthsea]], book 4
*''[[The Telling]]'' ([[2000]], Harcourt) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[The Tombs of Atuan]]'' ([[1971]], Atheneum) [[Earthsea]], book 2
*''[[Very Far Away from Anywhere Else]]'' ([[1976]], Atheneum; UK title: A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else)
*''[[Voices]]'' (forthcoming, [[2006]], Harcourt) [[Western Shore]], book 2
*''[[A Wizard of Earthsea]]'' ([[1968]], Parnassus Press) [[Earthsea]], book 1
*''[[The Word for World Is Forest]]'' ([[1976]], Berkley) [[Ekumen]]

=== Short Story Collections ===
*''[[The Birthday of the World]]'' ([[2002]], HarperCollins) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences]]'' ([[1987]], Capra Press)
*''[[Changing Planes]]'' ([[2003]], Harcourt)
*''[[The Compass Rose]]'' ([[1982]], Harper & Row)
*''[[A Fisherman of the Inland Sea]]'' ([[1994]], HarperPrism) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Four Ways to Forgiveness]]'' ([[1995]], HarperPrism) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Orsinian Tales]]'' ([[1976]], Harper & Row)
*''[[Searoad|Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand]]'' ([[1991]], HarperCollins)
*''[[Tales from Earthsea]]'' ([[2001]], Harcourt) [[Earthsea]], book 5
*''[[The Wind's Twelve Quarters]]'' ([[1975]], Harper & Row) [[Earthsea]] and [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Unlocking the Air and Other Stories]]'' ([[1996]], HarperCollins)

=== Children's Books ===
*''[[Catwings]]'' ([[1988]], Orchard)
*''[[Catwings Return]]'' ([[1989]], Orchard)
*''[[The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune]]'' ([[1982]], Cheap Street)
*''[[Fire and Stone]]'' ([[1989]], Atheneum)
*''[[Fish Soup]]'' ([[1992]], Atheneum)
*''[[Jane on her Own]]'' ([[1999]], Orchard)
*''[[Leese Webster]]'' ([[1979]], Atheneum)
*''[[A Ride on the Red Mare's Back]]'' ([[1992]], Orchard)
*''[[Solomon Leviathan's Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World]]'' ([[1984]], Cheap Street)
*''[[Tom Mouse]]'' ([[2002]], Roaring Brook)
*''[[A Visit from Dr. Katz]]'' ([[1988]], Atheneum)
*''[[Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings]]'' ([[1994]], Orchard)

=== Poetry Collections ===
*''[[Going Out with Peacocks]]'' ([[1994]], HarperCollins)
*''[[Hard Words and Other Poems]]'' ([[1981]], Harper & Row)
*''[[No Boats]]'' ([[1991]], Ygor and Buntho Make Books)
*''[[Sixty Odd]]'' ([[1999]], Shambhala)
*''[[Tillai and Tylissos]]'' (with Theodora Kroeber, [[1980]], Red Bull)
*''[[Wild Angels]]'' ([[1974]], Capra)
*''[[Wild Oats and Fireweed]]'' ([[1988]], Harper & Row)

=== Non-Fiction ===
*''[[Dancing at the Edge of the World|Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places]]'' ([[1989]], Grove Press)
*''[[The Language of the Night|The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction]]'' ([[1979]], G.P. Putnam; 1989, Women's Press; 2nd edition published in [[1992]] by HarperCollins)
*''[[Steering the Craft|Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew]]'' ([[1998]], Eight Mountain)
*''[[The Wave in the Mind|The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination]]'' ([[2004]], Shambhala)

=== Translations ===
*''[[Kalpa Imperial]]'' (Angélica Gorodischer, [[2003]], Small Beer Press)
*Lao Tzu: ''[[Tao Te Ching|Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way]]'' ([[1997]], Shambhala)
*Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (Gabriela Mistral), University of New Mexico Press, 2003)

=== Collaborations ===
*''[[Blue Moon over Thurman Street]]'' (with Roger Dorband, photographer, [[1993]], New Sage)
*[[Music and Poetry of the Kesh]] (with Todd Barton, composer, [[1985]], Valley Productions)
*''[[Rigel Nine]]: An Opera'' (with David Bedford, composer, [[1985]], Charisma)
*''[[The Twins, The Dream]]'' / Las Gemelas, El Sueño (with Diana Bellessi, poet & translator, [[1997]], Arte Público)
*[[Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts]] (with Elinor Armer, composer, [[1996]], Koch)

=== Edited Anthologies ===
*''[[Edges]]'' ([[1980]], Pocket)
*''[[Interfaces]]'' ([[1980]], Ace)
*''[[Nebula Award Stories XI]]'' ([[1977]], Harper & Row)
*''[[The Norton Book of Science Fiction]]'' (with [[Brian Attebery]] & [[Karen Joy Fowler]], [[1993]], Norton)

=== Uncollected Stories and Essays ===
*"Along the River" ([[1993]], Omni Best Science Fiction Three)
*"Earthsea Revisioned" ([[1993]], Green Bay booklet)
*"The Lost Children" ([[1996]], Thirteenth Moon)
*"The Ursula Major Construct: or, A Far Greater Horror Loomed" ([[1973]], Clarion III)
*"The Wild Girls" ([[2002]], Asimov's)

==Adaptations of Works==
*[[The Lathe of Heaven (1980; PBS)]]
*[[The Lathe of Heaven (2002; A&E)]]
*[[Earthsea (2004; Sci-Fi)]]
*[[Tales of Earthsea (Studio Ghibli)]]
*[[The Left Hand of Darkness (1994-95; Lifeline Theater, Chicago, IL)]]

== Intertextual References ==

Le Guin's [[ansible]] technology (from the [[Ekumen]] universe) has been referenced in [[Orson Scott Card]]'s [[Ender's Game]].

== External Links ==

*(en) [http://www.ursulakleguin.com Her Site]
*(it) [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin Her page in Italian Wikipedia.org]

== Categories ==

[[category:1929 Births|Le Guin, Ursula K.]]
[[category:Female Writers|Le Guin, Ursula K.]]
[[category:Hugo Award winning authors|Le Guin, Ursula K.]]
[[category:Nebula Award winning authors|Le Guin, Ursula K.]]
[[category:Translators|Le Guin, Ursula K.]]
[[category:Tiptree Award Winning Authors|Le Guin, Ursula K.]]
[[Category:Poets|Le Guin, Ursula K.]]
[[Category:Writers|Le Guin, Ursula K.]]

Category:Poets

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Category:Journalists

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R. M. Meluch

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==Bibliography==

*[[Sovereign]]
*[[The Queen's Squadron]]
*[[Chicago Red]]

==External Links==
* http://www.rmmeluch.com/

[[category:Writers|Meluch, R. M.]]

Justine Larbalestier

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==Bibliography==

===Novels===

* ''[[Magic or Madness]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Magic Lessons]]''

===Edited Anthologies===

* ''[[Daughters of Earth (anthology)|Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century]]''
* ''[[The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction]]''

==External Links==

* http://www.justinelarbalestier.com/Musings/index.htm
* http://justinelarbalestier.com/

[[category:Writers|Larbalestier, Justine]] [[category:Scholars|Larbalestier, Justine]]

JoSelle Vanderhooft

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Utah-based author, poet, scholar and journalist.

[[Category:Writers|Vanderhooft, JoSelle]]
[[Category:Scholars|Vanderhooft, JoSelle]]
[[Category:Journalists|Vanderhooft, JoSelle]]
[[Category:Poets|Vanderhooft, JoSelle]]

Jeanette Winterson

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==Bibliography==

* ''[[Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit]]'' (realistic; biographical novel)
* ''[[The Passion]]''
* ''[[Written on the Body]]''
* ''[[Art and Lies]]''
* ''[[Sexing the Cherry]]''

[[category:Writers|Winterson, Jeanette]]

Janine Cross

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'''Janine Cross''', Canadian writer. She became the subject of a great deal of mockery online following the distribution of an excerpt from her fantasy novel, ''[[Touched by Venom]]'' ([[2005]]), at the [[World Fantasy Convention]] in November of [[2005]].

The controversy related significantly to the novel's feminist themes and treatment of sexuality, but much of the controversy was couched in commentary on Cross' prose. Much of the mockery centered on the phrase "venom cock" to descibe an erection. Some focused on Cross' dialectical renderings.

As with any fandom controversy, there were probably almost as many explanations or motivations for the mockery as there were people involved. From a feminist perspective, significant concerns arise about criticism directed at the book ''because'' of its treatment of sexual and sexist violence, and the extent to which sexist critiques masked themselves as attacks on the language. For instance, was it easier for fandom to "gang up" on Janine Cross and ''Touched by Venom'' because ''TBV'' was written by a woman and attempted to treat extreme sexism and misogyny? Or, was sexism implicated in the particularly personal nature of the criticism directed first at Janine Cross and ''TBV'', and then at one of the positive reviews of the book, by [[Liz Henry]]? Opinions may vary, but understanding the particularly vehement and personal nature of the criticism in this case can help fans and critics alike be responsible and thoughtful in criticism.

== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===
* ''The Footstop Café'', ([[2005]]) (as Paulette Crosse)
* The Dragon Temple Saga
# ''[[Touched by Venom]]'', ([[2005]])
# ''Shadowed by Wings'', ([[2006]])

== External Links ==
* [http://www.sfcanada.ca/autumn2005/cross.htm An Author's Cinderella Story: Interview with Janine Cross]
* [http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/The_Venom_Cock The Venom Cock - Fandom Wank wiki]

[[category:Writers|Cross, Janine]]

Janine Cross

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'''Janine Cross''', Canadian writer. She became the subject of a great deal of mockery online following the distribution of an excerpt from her fantasy novel, ''[[Touched by Venom]]'' ([[2005]]), at the [[World Fantasy Convention]] in November of [[2005]].

The controversy related significantly to the novel's feminist themes and treatment of sexuality, but much of the controversy was couched in commentary on Cross' prose. Much of the mockery centered on the phrase "venom cock" to descibe an erection. Some focused on Cross' dialectical renderings.

As with any fandom controversy, there were probably almost as many explanations or motivations for the mockery as there were people involved. From a feminist perspective, significant concerns arise about criticism directed at the book ''because'' of its treatment of sexual and sexist violence, and the extent to which sexist critiques masked themselves as attacks on the language. For instance, was it easier for fandom to "gang up" on Janine Cross and ''Touched by Venom'' because ''TBV'' was written by a woman and attempted to treat extreme sexism and misogyny? Or, was sexism implicated in the particularly personal nature of the criticism directed first at Janine Cross and ''TBV'', and then at one of the positive reviews of the book, by [[Liz Henry]]? Opinions may vary, but understanding the particularly vvehement and personal nature of the criticism in this case can help fans and critics alike be responsible and thoughtful in criticism.

== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===
* ''The Footstop Café'', ([[2005]]) (as Paulette Crosse)
* The Dragon Temple Saga
# ''[[Touched by Venom]]'', ([[2005]])
# ''Shadowed by Wings'', ([[2006]])

== External Links ==
* [http://www.sfcanada.ca/autumn2005/cross.htm An Author's Cinderella Story: Interview with Janine Cross]
* [http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/The_Venom_Cock The Venom Cock - Fandom Wank wiki]

[[category:Writers|Cross, Janine]]

Jayge Carr

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'''Jayge Carr''', sometimes spelled "Jaygee", pseudonym of Margery Krueger (born in [[1940]]), American science fiction writer and former nuclear physicist.

== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===
* ''Leviathan's Deep'' ([[1979]])
* Rabelais series
# ''Navigator's Sindrome'' ([[1983]])
# ''The Treasure in the Heart of the Maze'' ([[1985]])
# ''Rabelaisian Reprise'' ([[1988]])

=== Short Fiction ===

(Over 30 stories, to be added here.)

[[category:Writers|Carr, Jayge]] [[category:Scientists|Carr, Jayge]]

Stella Atrium

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==Bibliography==

* [[Goulep]] (1997/98)

[[category:Writers|Atrium, Stella]]

Kate Orman

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'''Kate Orman''' (born [[1968]]) is an Australian science fiction writer. She has been active as a professionally published author and as a [[fan]] writer, and is an ardent [[feminist]].

She was the first woman to publish an original ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novel in the licensed Virgin ''New Adventures'' series: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'', in 1993, and wrote several other ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novels thereafter.

She is currently working on original writing projects.

== Bibliography ==

=== Doctor Who : New Adventures ===
* ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'' ([[1993]])
* ''Set Piece'' ([[1995]])
* ''SLEEPY'' ([[1996]])
* ''So Vile a Sin'' ([[1996]]) (with Ben Aaronovitch)
* ''Return of the Living Dad'' ([[1996]])
* ''The Room with No Doors'' ([[1997]])
* ''Walking to Babylon'' ([[1998]]) ([[Bernice Summerfield]] spin-off adventure)

=== Doctor Who : Eighth Doctor ===
* ''Vampire Science'' ([[1997]]) (with Jonathan Blum)
* ''Seeing I'' ([[1998]]) (with Jonathan Blum)
* ''Unnatural History'' ([[1999]]) (with Jonathan Blum)
* ''The Year of Intelligent Tigers'' ([[2001]])
* ''Blue Box'' ([[2003]])

== External Links ==
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butterflyroom/ Official newsletter]
* [http://kateorman.livejournal.com/ Kate Orman LiveJournal]

[[category:Writers|Orman, Kate]]

Francine Pelletier

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'''Francine Pelletier''' (born [[1959]]) is a francophone writer from Québec, whose work often features strong female protagonists. Winner of several literary prizes for science fiction.

She has published over 20 novels for young readers, mostly in the science fiction and mystery genres, and dozens of short stories, as well as a few science-fiction novels for adults. Some of her work has been translated into English.

== External Links ==
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francine_Pelletier Francine Pelletier - Wikipédia, L'encyclopédie libre] [French]
* [http://www.alire.com/Auteurs/PelletierFr.html Author profile at Éditions Alire]

[[category:Writers|Pelletier, Francine]]

Diana Rivers

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[[category:1931 Births|Rivers, Diana]] [[category:Writers|Rivers, Diana]]

Daphne Gottlieb

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==Bibliography==

* Final Girl

[[category:Writers|Gottlieb, Daphne]]

David Brin

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Author of ''[[Glory Season]]'', which he had reportedly hoped would win the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]].

==Setting==

Planet [[Stratos]]

==Intertextual References==

''Glory Season'''s towns and people have feminist sf homage names, such as "Herlandia" and "Ursulaburg", and "Vondaites", "Tiamatians", and "Perkites".

[[category:Writers|Brin, David]]

Nina Kiriki Hoffman

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==Bibliography==

* [[A Stir of Bones]]

[[category:Writers|Hoffman, Nina Kiriki]]

Neal Stephenson

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partial bibliography

*[[Snow Crash]]
*[[The Diamond Age]] (1995)
*[[Quicksilver]] (2003)
*[[The Confusion]] (2004)
*[[The System of the World]] (2004)

[[category:Writers|Stephenson, Neal]]

The Rule

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'''The Rule''', also called "Dykes to Watch Out For test" ("DTWOF test" for short), or, inaccurately, the "Mo Movie Measure", is a standard which requires that a movie satisfy "three basic requirements":

# It has to have at least two women in it
# Who '''talk''' to each other about
# Something besides a '''man'''.

This principle was established by Liz Wallace, a friend of the cartoonist [[Alison Bechdel]]. Bechdel used it in a ''[[Dykes to Watch Out For]]'' comic strip in [[1985]], and it has since entered into popular use.

The Rule originally only served as a movie-going principle, but its application has been extended to gauge movies, and assorted publications in general, from a feminist perspective. Whether or not a movie, book, or television show meets the Rule, or passes the DTWOF test, is helpful in determining women's importance in relation to each other within the work in question. Failure to meet the Rule is a strong indication that female characters are under-characterized or under-developed in the work. Rather than being seen as whole individuals, such under-developed female characters may only be stand-ins for [[Clichés, Archetypes, Stereotypes of Female Characters in SF|generic female roles]]: wife, girlfriend, daughter, helpful subordinate, etc. These female characters may be relevant or interesting to the story only insofar as their characters are involved with or commenting on the men in their lives. Their essential characters or attributes are under-developed, leading to an artistically crippled work.

== Source ==
* [http://alisonbechdel.blogspot.com/2005/08/rule.html The original comic strip by Alison Bechdel], up at the ''[[Dykes to Watch Out For]]'' blog

[[category:1985 Publications|Rule, The]][[category:Analysis of Works|Rule, The]]

The Rule

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'''The Rule''', also called "Dykes to Watch Out For test" ("DTWOF test" for short), or, inaccurately, the "Mo Movie Measure", is a standard which requires that a movie satisfy "three basic requirements":

# It has to have at least two women in it
# Who '''talk''' to each other about
# Something besides a '''man'''.

This principle was established by Liz Wallace, a friend of the cartoonist [[Alison Bechdel]]. Bechdel used it in a ''[[Dykes to Watch Out For]]'' comic strip in [[1985]], and it has since entered into popular use.

The Rule originally only served as a movie-going principle, but its application has been extended to gauge movies, and assorted publications in general, from a feminist perspective. Whether or not a movie, book, or television show meets the Rule, or passes the DTWOF test, is helpful in determining women's importance in relation to each other within the work in question. Failure to meet the Rule is a strong indication that female characters are under-characterized or under-developed in the work. Rather than being seen as whole individuals, such under-developed female characters may only be stand-ins for generic female roles: wife, girlfriend, daughter, helpful subordinate, etc. These female characters may be relevant or interesting to the story only insofar as their characters are involved with or commenting on the men in their lives. Their essential characters or attributes are under-developed, leading to an artistically crippled work.

== Source ==
* [http://alisonbechdel.blogspot.com/2005/08/rule.html The original comic strip by Alison Bechdel], up at the ''[[Dykes to Watch Out For]]'' blog

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The Rule

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'''The Rule''', also called "Dykes to Watch Out For test" ("DTWOF test" for short), or, inaccurately, the "Mo Movie Measure", is a standard which requires that a movie satisfy "three basic requirements":

# It has to have at least two women in it
# Who '''talk''' to each other about
# Something besides a '''man'''.

This principle was established by Liz Wallace, a friend of the cartoonist [[Alison Bechdel]]. Bechdel used it in a ''[[Dykes to Watch Out For]]'' comic strip in [[1985]], and it has since entered into popular use.

The Rule originally only served as a movie-going principle, but its application has been extended to gauge movies, and assorted publications in general, from a feminist perspective. Whether or not a movie, book, or television show meets the Rule, or passes the DTWOF test, is helpful in determining women's importance in relation to each other within the work in question. Failure to meet the Rule is a strong indication that female characters are under-characterized or under-developed in the work.

== Source ==
* [http://alisonbechdel.blogspot.com/2005/08/rule.html The original comic strip by Alison Bechdel], up at the ''[[Dykes to Watch Out For]]'' blog

[[category:1985 Publications|Rule, The]][[category:Analysis of Works|Rule, The]]