Bunch of Book Recs
I don't know why I haven't been posting more. I've been busy working on the book, but I think I'm also losing my will to persist, somewhat. I can keep writing, because I've always done that, but it's getting a bit hard to do other things.
A couple of years ago we had the conversation where some men decided that no one had ever written any fantasy set in non-European inspired settings, except these four or five dudes they could name. Ignoring the hundreds of women who wrote it during the 80s and 90s, and the whole realm of Japanese fantasy like Moribito, etc. (which is how we came up with this list). Now we have the no one has written "non-patriarchal" fantasy except for these three or four dudes someone can name. Ignoring all the women who wrote this in the 80s, 90s, etc. (We talked about this on Kate Elliott's twitter so it's a little hard to follow.)
I guess I'm really tired of feeling like nothing I've done in genre counts, because I'm not a bearded white dude.
Related: I Challenge You to Stop Reading White, Straight, Cis Male Authors for One Year by K.T. Bradford about trying to diversify your reading and find new authors.
I have a lot of authors on my book rec tag that would fit, but here's a small sample:
David Anthony Durham, Prudence Shen, Violette Malan, Nnedi Okorafor, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Nicky Drayden, Karen Lord, Judith Tarr, Craig Laurance Gidney, Sharon Shinn, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Wesley Chu, Ramez Naam, Catherine Lundoff, Joyce Chng, Kate Elliott, Barbara Hambly, Jaye Wells, Charles R. Saunders, Steven Barnes, Stephanie Diaz, Laura Lam, Alyx Dellamonica for a start.
Also in that list, N.K. Jemisin. I got to read The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, which is coming out later this year and you should envy me, because it's really good. I gave it a blurb and said:
"This is an intense, exciting novel, where survival is always on the line, set in a fascinating, original and dangerous world with an intriguing mystery at the heart of it. I can't wait to see what happens in the next book!"
A couple of years ago we had the conversation where some men decided that no one had ever written any fantasy set in non-European inspired settings, except these four or five dudes they could name. Ignoring the hundreds of women who wrote it during the 80s and 90s, and the whole realm of Japanese fantasy like Moribito, etc. (which is how we came up with this list). Now we have the no one has written "non-patriarchal" fantasy except for these three or four dudes someone can name. Ignoring all the women who wrote this in the 80s, 90s, etc. (We talked about this on Kate Elliott's twitter so it's a little hard to follow.)
I guess I'm really tired of feeling like nothing I've done in genre counts, because I'm not a bearded white dude.
Related: I Challenge You to Stop Reading White, Straight, Cis Male Authors for One Year by K.T. Bradford about trying to diversify your reading and find new authors.
I have a lot of authors on my book rec tag that would fit, but here's a small sample:
David Anthony Durham, Prudence Shen, Violette Malan, Nnedi Okorafor, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Nicky Drayden, Karen Lord, Judith Tarr, Craig Laurance Gidney, Sharon Shinn, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Wesley Chu, Ramez Naam, Catherine Lundoff, Joyce Chng, Kate Elliott, Barbara Hambly, Jaye Wells, Charles R. Saunders, Steven Barnes, Stephanie Diaz, Laura Lam, Alyx Dellamonica for a start.
Also in that list, N.K. Jemisin. I got to read The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, which is coming out later this year and you should envy me, because it's really good. I gave it a blurb and said:
"This is an intense, exciting novel, where survival is always on the line, set in a fascinating, original and dangerous world with an intriguing mystery at the heart of it. I can't wait to see what happens in the next book!"
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