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Niall ([personal profile] coalescent) wrote2007-08-29 10:18 am

Who's missing?

[Poll #1046886]

Actual answer here. Vote before you click.

EDIT: See also [livejournal.com profile] jlassen's two entries, and Andrew Wheeler here.

FURTHER EDIT: Commentary from [livejournal.com profile] rosefox here and [livejournal.com profile] cristalia here.

[identity profile] rozk.livejournal.com 2007-08-29 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
Have people learned NOTHING!!!

I am not asking for anti-sexist gender parity, nice as that would be. CYA anti-sexist gender parity would do just fine.

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2007-08-29 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
What gets me is it looks to me as though there was some effort made to solicit stories from women writers -- I mean, Maureen McHugh and Eileen Gunn are not (alas) hugely prolific, so I'm guessing they were asked for stories. But it's a bit pointless doing that if you're then going to slap a boy's own cover on the thing.

[identity profile] bluetyson.livejournal.com 2007-08-29 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Not hugely prolific, and not as good, either.


Eileen Gunn
Ellen Klages
Ysabeau Wilce
Maureen F. McHugh

Wouldn't be a lot of people looking twice at that list, in big letters, if you want to go the other extreme.

Jones, sure, maybe. I really like her books, does she have US appeal?




[identity profile] mroctober.livejournal.com 2007-08-30 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I very much enjoy Klages work. With new stories from her and Ford, I had planned on buying this puppy.