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Talk:WisCon 30

2006-06-12T16:34:05Z

Vicki: are we trying for completeness?

Is this intended to be a complete list of program items? If not, what's the organizing principle/basis for selection? [[User:Vicki|Vicki]] 09:34, 12 June 2006 (PDT)

Suzette Haden Elgin

2006-05-01T13:36:49Z

Vicki:

Linguist and science fiction writer and artist. Creator of the [[Coyote Jones]] series, the [[Ozark Trilogy]], and the [[Native Tongue Trilogy]], and various short stories. She has written several popular works on communication, focusing on how to avoid or defuse verbal conflict and attacks, .

Creator of the [[constructed language]] [[Láadan]], a [[women's language]]; first discussed in the [[Native Tongue Trilogy]].

==Intertextual References==

* "[[The Two of Them]]" by [[Joanna Russ]], which took the characters and settings from Elgin's short story "[[For the Sake of Grace]]".

==External Links==

* [http://ozarque.livejournal.com/ Ozarque (Suzette Haden Elgin's LiveJournal)]
* [http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin Suzette Haden Elgin's Website]

Ursula K. Le Guin

2006-05-01T13:34:33Z

Vicki: added Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral

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

== 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)
*''[[The Lathe of Heaven]]'' ([[1971]], Scribner)
*''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]'' ([[1969]], Ace) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Malafrena]]'' ([[1979]], Putnam)
*''[[The Other Wind]]'' ([[2001]], Harcourt) [[Earthsea]], book 5
*''[[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)
*''[[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]]
*''[[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 (PBS)]]
*[[The Lathe of Heaven (Sci-Fi)]]
*[[Earthsea (2004; Sci-Fi)]]
*[[Tales of Earthsea (Studio Ghibli)]]
*[[The Left Hand of Darkness (1994-95; Lifeline Theater, Chicago, IL)]]

[[category:1929 births|Le Guin, Ursula K.]] [[category:writers|Le Guin, Ursula K.]] [[category:translators|Le Guin, Ursula K.]]

James Tiptree, Jr. Award

2006-05-01T13:30:42Z

Vicki: +auctions for fund-raising

The '''James Tiptree, Jr. Award''' is an annual literary prize for works of [[science fiction]] or [[fantasy]] that expand or explore our understanding of [[gender|gender]]. It was initiated in February of 1991 by authors [[Pat Murphy]] and [[Karen Joy Fowler]], subsequent to a discussion at [[WisCon]] (the world's only [[feminism|feminist]]-oriented [[science fiction convention]]).

The award is named for [[James Tiptree, Jr.|Alice B. Sheldon]], who wrote under the pseudonym [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] By choosing a masculine ''nom de plume,'' having her stories accepted under that name and winning awards with them, Sheldon helped demonstrate that the division between male and female SF writing was illusory. Years after "Tiptree" first published SF, Sheldon wrote some work under the female pen name "Raccoona Sheldon"; later, the SF world discovered that "Tiptree" had been female all along. According to the Tiptree Award council, this discovery led to widespread discussion over which aspects of writing, if any, have an intrinsic gender. To remind audiences of the complicated role gender plays in both reading and writing, the award was named in Sheldon's honor.

Fundraising efforts for the Tiptree have included publications, auctions, and feminist bake sales.

== Winners ==
*2005: ''Air'' by [[Geoff Ryman]]
*2004: ''[[Camouflage (book)|Camouflage]]'' by [[Joe Haldeman]] and ''Not Before Sundown'' by [[Johanna Sinisalo]]
*2003: ''Set This House In Order: A Romance Of Souls'' by [[Matt Ruff]]
*2002: ''Light'' by [[M. John Harrison]] and "Stories for Men" by [[John Kessel]]
*2001: ''The Kappa Child'' by [[Hiromi Goto]]
*2000: ''Wild Life'' by [[Molly Gloss]]
*1999: ''The Conqueror's Child'' by [[Suzy McKee Charnas]]
*1998: "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" by [[Raphael Carter]]
*1997: ''Black Wine'' by [[Candas Jane Dorsey]] and "Travels With The Snow Queen" by [[Kelly Link]]
*1996: "Mountain Ways" by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], and ''[[The Sparrow]]'' by [[Mary Doria Russell]]
*1995: ''Waking The Moon'' by [[Elizabeth Hand]] and ''The Memoirs Of Elizabeth Frankenstein'' by [[Theodore Roszak]]
*1994: "The Matter of Seggri" by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] and ''Larque on the Wing'' by [[Nancy Springer]]
*1993: ''[[Ammonite (novel)|Ammonite]]'' by [[Nicola Griffith]]
*1992: ''[[China Mountain Zhang]]'' by [[Maureen F. McHugh]]
*1991: ''[[A Woman of the Iron People]]'' by [[Eleanor Arnason]], and ''White Queen'' by [[Gwyneth Jones]]

== See also ==
* [[Gender role]]
* [[Gender and sexuality studies]]
* [[Sex in science fiction]]
* [[Women in science fiction]]
* [[Women science fiction authors]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.tiptree.org/ James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council]
* [http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue22/tiptree.html "On James Tiptree, Alice Sheldon and bake sales", by Karen Joy Fowler]

Talk:WisCon

2006-05-01T13:29:56Z

Vicki:

I believe that there's now at least one other feminist sf convention, more media-focused (where Wiscon has focused more on print sf). Wiscon now self-describes as the world's <em>leading</em> feminist sf con. I'm going to try to track down more info, and then update this.--[[User:Vicki|Vicki]] 06:29, 1 May 2006 (PDT)