new Bujold interview
...here:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
From time to time, I get interviews that can only use a portion of my reply. It belatedly occurred to me that I have a slot right here on Goodreads where I can stash them in a linkable public view, so I don't have to waste all that writing.
Given the questions (the interviewer was asking about my early fannish experiences) I thought that old photo Ron Miller took of me about 1968 would make a great illo, so I put it in the inviting slot for "cover".
Ta, L.
Later: link for my interviews on the Vorkosigan Wiki is here: https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Au...
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
From time to time, I get interviews that can only use a portion of my reply. It belatedly occurred to me that I have a slot right here on Goodreads where I can stash them in a linkable public view, so I don't have to waste all that writing.
Given the questions (the interviewer was asking about my early fannish experiences) I thought that old photo Ron Miller took of me about 1968 would make a great illo, so I put it in the inviting slot for "cover".
Ta, L.
Later: link for my interviews on the Vorkosigan Wiki is here: https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Au...
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Interesting interview, and a nice photo.I was rather out of things growing up because my parents lived in various African countries. When I got to university in England, in the early 1970s, I encountered an sf group, but I was disconcerted to realize that sf is a wide field, and I had next to nothing in common with some of those people—the books I'd read and the books they'd read didn't intersect. I hadn't had much access to television or cinema, so sf meant books to me.
Short version: AI: Talk to me about women and fanfic.
LMB: Well, I'll talk about fanfic.
Loved all of this, but especially the line "I'm data, not theory." That one's going in the quote satchel for future use as needed.
L wrote: "Short version: AI: Talk to me about women and fanfic.
LMB: Well, I'll talk about fanfic."
The women were embedded.
That said, in my manymany interviews over the years -- see the list on the Vorkosigan Wiki, which, hah, GR will not let me link in the comments so I'll slot it in above on my post -- I have discovered that questions shape answers, and if one is not alert, they may funnel one into saying things that aren't quite true. This can be particularly the case with journalists, who are after usable sound bites for their already formed template. I've had to train myself to be conscious of this effect, and not just let my answers become an echo or a distortion in an unconscious attempt to please.
(The Book Cafe link, included in the interview, was an earlier meditation of mine on this effect.)
This interviewer was a baby historian, so I presumed she wanted as much truth as she could get. I can speak with confidence of my own experiences; much less so with random guesses about other people's, women or not.
Ta, L.
I also loved the line "Labeling is not my problem. I’m data, not theory.", and will likewise be saving it for future use =)I'm a woman in a heavily male-dominated field (software engineer/field roboticist), and whenever the subject of gender comes up I want to complain that simply being a woman doesn't make me an expert on gender issues in the workplace -- instead, hound me for quotes on what I *am* an expert at, and I'll be happy to contribute to visibility.
What has irritated me over the years is that so many have considered science fiction something for young boys. I was always thinking, "Wait a minute. Girls/women can enjoy it too!" As a career librarian I also had to hear how, supposedly, "no one in my town reads science fiction." I would tell them they needed to provide some before those readers would come looking for more!
And, I loved the pic!