Last night, I took 90 minutes to talk with Gary Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan on the Coode Street Podcast about my various projects, including indie publishing, the Retrieval Artist, and the women in science fiction material. Most of the time,…
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Kate Wilhelm
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m doing some confirmation research on one of my women in sf projects. I looked up online information about Kate Wilhelm and discovered that her contributions to the field have been marginalized. She’s not listed as…
A Thank You
As I’m working on the various essays I need to write for some of the women in sf projects I’m doing, I’m double-checking facts and websites and other things. I mentioned in the introduction to this site (as well as…
Found Quotes 3
This really isn’t a quote, but a marketing point. If Ian and Betty Ballantine, who started Ballantine Books in the 1950s, and who published Mildred Clingerman’s A Cupful of Space believed that women didn’t read science fiction, they never would…
Birds Can’t Count by Mildred Clingerman
A companion story to “Minister Without Portfolio,” (listed below). A disgruntled housewife, reading about birds, makes a strange discovery with the help of her cat. The story’s witty and the payoff is such fun. I can’t say much more than…
Minister Without Portfolio by Mildred Clingerman
This one’s a favorite of mine. Mrs. Chriswell has moved in with her son and daughter-in-law after her husband’s death. She pretends to bird watch to get out of the house. While on one of those pretend bird-watching missions, she…
Baen’s Support for Women of Futures Past
I thought I’d share a few photos of the kind of support I’ve received from everyone at Baen on this project. They’ve sent books, they’ve answered questions, they’ve offered expertise. Below is just one of the many care packages I’ve…
A Women in SF Storybundle
As I mentioned in the overall post for this site, I’m doing several women in science fiction projects. The first to appear is this Storybundle. It features a number of the women whose work I’ve discussed on this site, and…
Mid-July Thoughts
I’m getting deep into this project, and as I explore my options, I find myself growing frustrated. Frustrated at the stories lost and not reprinted anywhere that I can find. Frustrated at the amount of excellent material, most of which…
Update
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, not because I stopped working on the project, but because I had to finish some other projects that left no time for website work. I’m slowly compiling more information here, and making…