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  • (ReacTor) Five Works of Old-School Romantasy

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 19 16:14:38 2024
    Five Works of Old-School Romantasy

    Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
    before 2023.

    https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/
    --
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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Tue Mar 19 09:53:17 2024
    In article <utcdle$340$1@reader1.panix.com>,
    jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

    Five Works of Old-School Romantasy

    Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
    before 2023.

    https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/

    The C. L. Moore title that came to mind when I saw the subject of your
    post was _Judgment Night_.

    --
    "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ‹-----------------------------------------------------
    Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to dtravel@sonic.net on Tue Mar 19 18:06:34 2024
    In article <utcjas$v0us$2@dont-email.me>,
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 3/19/2024 9:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Works of Old-School Romantasy

    Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
    before 2023.

    https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/

    O_o We take extra-strength cranky pills this morning?

    I blame leftover trauma from the "no woman wrote fantasy before
    JK ROwling" wars.
    --
    My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
    My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/
    My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/
    My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Tue Mar 19 10:51:26 2024
    On 3/19/2024 9:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Works of Old-School Romantasy

    Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
    before 2023.

    https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/

    O_o We take extra-strength cranky pills this morning?

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Tue Mar 19 11:43:40 2024
    On 3/19/2024 11:06 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    In article <utcjas$v0us$2@dont-email.me>,
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 3/19/2024 9:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Works of Old-School Romantasy

    Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
    before 2023.

    https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/

    O_o We take extra-strength cranky pills this morning?

    I blame leftover trauma from the "no woman wrote fantasy before
    JK ROwling" wars.

    I am suddenly curious how many cave paintings were done by women.... ;P

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to Michael F. Stemper on Fri Mar 22 13:42:29 2024
    In article <utjv0c$2u3rg$1@dont-email.me>,
    Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 21/03/2024 18.40, Robert Carnegie wrote:
    On 19/03/2024 22:39, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 3/19/2024 11:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Works of Old-School Romantasy

    Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
    before 2023.

    https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/

    I think that I read the Andre Norton way back when.

    I read a lot of Katherine Kurtz, Marrian Zimmer Bradley, Andre
    Norton, and several other lady SF/F authors back in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Lynn

    Andre Norton was fenale?!  :-)

    Actually I knew that.

    When I was a kid, I assumed that "Andre" was a female name, because
    of her.


    Ditto!
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to lynnmcguire5@gmail.com on Sun Mar 24 01:13:05 2024
    On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:39:43 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 3/19/2024 11:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Works of Old-School Romantasy

    Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
    before 2023.

    https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/

    I think that I read the Andre Norton way back when.

    I read a lot of Katherine Kurtz, Marrian Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton,
    and several other lady SF/F authors back in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Lynn

    Having read the first of the Miles stories (Mountain of Mourning? It
    was in Analog - or was it Asimov's? I was getting both at the time - I
    gave them up when I went back to university and was moving every 4
    months so expected that if I kept up my subscriptions some of them
    wouldn't catch up to my moves)

    I know for sure that I didn't thing either it or Enders' Game (also
    first published in one of those two) were nearly as good as they
    turned out to be at the award level later on - and I read both of
    these in the magazines before their first book publication.

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 24 08:30:28 2024
    On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 01:13:05 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
    wrote:

    On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:39:43 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 3/19/2024 11:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Works of Old-School Romantasy

    Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
    before 2023.

    https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/

    I think that I read the Andre Norton way back when.

    I read a lot of Katherine Kurtz, Marrian Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton,
    and several other lady SF/F authors back in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Lynn

    Having read the first of the Miles stories (Mountain of Mourning? It
    was in Analog - or was it Asimov's? I was getting both at the time - I
    gave them up when I went back to university and was moving every 4
    months so expected that if I kept up my subscriptions some of them
    wouldn't catch up to my moves)

    One of the advantages of being in the US Army (well, in the 70's-early
    80's at least) was that magazines /did/ forward.

    This came in very handy in "helping" the magazine distinguish between
    "we sent it but it wasn't forwarded" and "we didn't bother to send it
    at all because we figured it wouldn't be forwarded anyway".

    I started a habit of always saving the last two lables on each
    magazine. I still do, although I haven't moved since 1983.

    Old habits die hard.

    I know for sure that I didn't thing either it or Enders' Game (also
    first published in one of those two) were nearly as good as they
    turned out to be at the award level later on - and I read both of
    these in the magazines before their first book publication.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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