Talk:Reading paths

I like the idea of the reading path or cluster. In addition to canons or course syllabi, we could make lists of books that are good to read together in order to understand something central to feministsf. But this is kind of a different idea than a reading list based on a theme. Each path would be like a guided tour... "read this, then this, then this, then think about this other book."

Or, for some books, "in order to understand this book, you probably should have read the following..." For example, to "get" Vonda McIntye's "Little Faces" or Lois McMaster Bujold's later books in the Vorkosigan series, I think you need a background in space opera and romance novels. This will help us to define a genre: the genre isn't a canonical list of the best examples of some idea - it's a sort of cloud or field in which we draw lines of connection. -- Liz Henry

Another example: Kate Wilhelm's _The Clewiston Test_ is directly referenced in Joanna Russ's _The Two of Them_. -- Ide Cyan 23:25, 26 April 2006 (PDT)

Glory Season is wrong, I think; I haven't read it in ten years. There are better examples of referencing Russ. So this example is screwed but I wanted to write some (even wrong) text. I'll let it marinate for a few hours. LQ 12:29, 27 April 2006 (PDT)

I don't remember any references to The Clewiston Test in The Two of Them. Do you mean "For the Sake of Grace", the short story by Suzette Haden Elgin? Anyway, I think this is a great topic. What about Zamyatin's We, Le Guin's The Dispossessed ("an ambiguous utopia") and Delany's Trouble on Triton ("an ambiguous heteropia")? What a strange trip! But the influence is there in the lineage. Does this sound like the kind of thing we want? --Therem 16:33, 27 April 2006 (PDT)