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Posted 2014-02-21 11:19 PM (#6551 - in reply to #6547)
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Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA		I'd love to join this too, but I'm concerned about over-reaching as well. I plan on reading Samuel R Delaney's "Dhalgren" for the Grand Master Challenge. And I've been wanting to read Octavia Butler, Nicola Griffith and Charles de Lint. I I'll probably rearrange my other challenges to get some overlap.

I have a question for the creator of the challenge. I just read Deep Wizardry a few weeks ago for my Book Club. It's a YA fantasy novel. I wasn't that thrilled with the book. However, while it wasn't LGBT themed, the senior wizards who mentor the main characters are a gay couple. What astonished me the most was that the book was published in '85, which I thought was pretty early and progressive for putting positive LGBT characters in a YA book. And this book is the second in a series, so I think Tom and Carl also appeared in the first book in '83. So I'd like to include this in my challenge. Would you have any objections to this?

Lastly, Parallel Worlds Magazine might also be a source for ideas. They focus on books with LGBT and gender-identity themes. One of their reviewers has a review of Frankenstein in the WWE January poll. I always really enjoy her reviews. Here's a link to the site: http://www.parallelworldsmagazine.com/

Thanks for creating this challenge!

Steve

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