I'll say one thing though: Jones had characters whose concept of gender was completely and pronoun-wrenchingly different from that of their human interlocutors more than twenty years before Ancillary Justice, as of course did Ursula Le Guin more than twenty-five years before that. Those of us who voted for it last year weren't giving Ann Leckie cookies for a new idea, we were applauding a number of familiar tropes combined and given new and startling twists.
North Wind, by Gwyneth Jones
I'll say one thing though: Jones had characters whose concept of gender was completely and pronoun-wrenchingly different from that of their human interlocutors more than twenty years before Ancillary Justice, as of course did Ursula Le Guin more than twenty-five years before that. Those of us who voted for it last year weren't giving Ann Leckie cookies for a new idea, we were applauding a number of familiar tropes combined and given new and startling twists.
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Nebula ballot, Goodreads / LibraryThing stats
NB: With Russia's unprovoked murderous assault on Ukraine, I am actively looking at alternative hosts for this journal, preferably those which…
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BSFA shortlists: Goodreads/LibraryThing stats, and links
Hooray! The BSFA shortlists are out, and as usual I've looked at how many people have the novels on Goodreads and LibraryThing. (Only two of the…
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BSFA long lists, Best Novel and Best YA: Goodreads / LibraryThing stats
My other notes on this year's BSFA long lists: Short fiction Non-fiction Art As usual, now that the BSFA long list is out, I've gone…
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