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2014 LGBT Speculative Fiction Challenge
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Dlw28
Posted 2014-08-30 5:23 AM (#8383 - in reply to #6532)
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Ok! That's all I've found also. I've also enjoyed his work-so maybe I can find another challenge to fit him into!
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Posted 2014-08-30 5:28 AM (#8384 - in reply to #8383)
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Dlw28 - 2014-08-30 6:23 AM

Ok! That's all I've found also. I've also enjoyed his work-so maybe I can find another challenge to fit him into!


Have you read the Tansom House books - Spiritwalk and Moonheart? Those are my favorites by him.
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Jain
Posted 2014-08-30 1:06 PM (#8387 - in reply to #6532)
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Re: Charles de Lint

Trader has a couple of lesbian secondary characters whose sexuality ends up being fairly plot-relevant.
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Dlw28
Posted 2014-10-13 5:33 PM (#8746 - in reply to #6532)
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One more book to go! Looks like three people are done. Any favorites? I enjoyed Solitaie and Amonite a great deal. Looking forward to Brown Girl in the Ring.
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Posted 2014-10-14 8:21 AM (#8751 - in reply to #8746)
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Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA		I finished the challenge Sunday (10/12). Woo-hoo!

- I loved Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson. It really moved me.
- Even though I gave it only three stars, I really liked Dhalgren by Samuel R Delaney.
- Poppy Z Brite's horror is astounding. Exquisite Corpse was mind-blowing and terrifying.
- And special props to Richard K Morgan who is a straight author. He wrote the "Land Fit for Heroes" fantasy trilogy with gay and Lesbian main characters. I loved the first book, was not as impressed with the second, but then was glued to the third. I'll have that review posted in a few days.
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Posted 2014-10-14 8:41 AM (#8753 - in reply to #6532)
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Dlw28
Posted 2014-10-14 11:40 AM (#8754 - in reply to #6532)
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I really enjoyed China Mountain Zhang when I read it a few years ago. Looking forward to Babel-17, which I'm reading for a different challenge.
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Posted 2014-10-14 7:57 PM (#8755 - in reply to #8754)
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I just finished Babel-17 a couple of weeks ago. I am utterly blown away by the fact that Delany wrote it when he was only 23.

You know how you often read 40-50 year old science fiction novels and they seem really dated, they have that whole sense of "Golden Age of SF" classic-but-clunky-and-outdated? Babel-17 doesn't. It is so well-written, I'd never have guessed that it was published nearly 50 years ago.

It is easy to understand all the accolades the book got and continues to get.

 

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Dlw28
Posted 2014-10-14 9:52 PM (#8757 - in reply to #6532)
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I know what you mean about dated classics. I've run across a few for the Masterworks challenge. I've tried to keep in mind the decade the book was written & the history/ science of the time, which can make parts of the plot fun-like traveling back in time ...but it can still be disappointing as a whole. Maybe Babel will find its way onto my night stand right after Brown Girl and Echopraxia.
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FeminineFantastique
Posted 2014-10-15 8:52 PM (#8765 - in reply to #6532)
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My favorite was probably Benjanun Sriduangkaew's Scale-Bright, though I think I loved the companion short stories set in the same universe a shade more than the novella.

So far. I'm only half done! Lots of life stuff has gotten in the way.

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Dlw28
Posted 2014-10-15 8:56 PM (#8766 - in reply to #8765)
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Scale-Bright! I forgot to mention that as a fave. I agree, the short stories were really well done.
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