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==Male and other-gendered librarians== | ==Male and other-gendered librarians== | ||
* Giles in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]" (TV series) | * Rupert Giles in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]" (TV series) | ||
* [[Gill Alderman]], ''The Archivist'' | * [[Gill Alderman]], ''The Archivist'' | ||
* [[Nancy Springer]], ''[[Fair Peril]]'' (librarian protagonist / gay black male librarian cohort) | * [[Nancy Springer]], ''[[Fair Peril]]'' (librarian protagonist / gay black male librarian cohort) | ||
* Flynn Carsen, a male librarian | * Flynn Carsen, a male librarian ''[[The Librarian: Quest for the Spear]]'' (fall 2004) and ''[[The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines]]'' (2006) (linked TV movies) | ||
* Mr. Raven in [[George MacDonald]]'s ''[[Lilith (1895 novel)|Lilith]]'' (1895) (the ghost of Mr. Raven, a librarian, haunts Mr. Vane's library) | * Mr. Raven in [[George MacDonald]]'s ''[[Lilith (1895 novel)|Lilith]]'' (1895) (the ghost of Mr. Raven, a librarian, haunts Mr. Vane's library) | ||
Revision as of 14:53, 19 June 2007
SF fans and writers = bibliophiles; bibliophiles love librarians; and therefore librarians show up disproportionately in SF. Which is interesting because librarianship in real life is gendered profession, disproportionately female (and gay).
Female librarians
- "Batwoman"
- Evelyn Carnahan in "The Mummy" feature film, 1999
- Cimerone in The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede spends a lot of time working in the library and at one point holds the title Head Cook and Librarian.
- Jane Fletcher. The World Celaeno Chose (Dimsdale: London, 1999) - a librarian plays an important role (although by the time of the plot she is an ex-librarian)
- Ellen Klages, "In the House of the Seven Librarians" (Firebirds Rising anthology)
- Joanna Russ' The Female Man (one of the protagonists is a librarian)
- Nancy Springer, . Fair Peril (librarian protagonist / gay black male librarian cohort)
- Cynthia Ward . "Brass in Pocket" in New Amazons edited by Margaret Weis, 2000. (not a very nice librarian; in fact a librarian that is one of the stereotypical shy women without social skills)
- M. K. Wren. A Gift Upon the Sea (tale centers around a post-holocaust archivist of books and the threats posed by fundamentalist christians)
Male and other-gendered librarians
- Rupert Giles in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (TV series)
- Gill Alderman, The Archivist
- Nancy Springer, Fair Peril (librarian protagonist / gay black male librarian cohort)
- Flynn Carsen, a male librarian The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (fall 2004) and The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006) (linked TV movies)
- Mr. Raven in George MacDonald's Lilith (1895) (the ghost of Mr. Raven, a librarian, haunts Mr. Vane's library)
Unsorted
- Jorge Luis Borges. The Library of Babel.
- Harlan Ellison. "Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center," in Gentleman Junkie (1961)
- Lirael in Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Books
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Telling (2000) (The whole thing is about libraries, really.)
- short story in Sea Road (not science fiction, but completists may want to read it just because it's by Le Guin)
- Theodore Sturgeon . "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" (the Master Archivist, on an interestingly-described library-sort-of-planet, is the recipient of this tale which is otherwise not about librarians. The MA -- as an upper-echelon male -- has an attractive female secretary.)
- Sean McMullen. Souls in the Great Machine
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Shadow of the Wind
- Keith Donohue. The Stolen Child
- Audrey Niffenegger. The Time Traveler's Wife
- Rosemary Edghill. The Sword of Maiden's Tears