On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:10:25 -0500
"Caitlyn Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> >
> > Because those who were being published, like James Triptree Jr. and C.L.
> > Moore, were not widely known to be female.
>
> ...and C.J. Cherryh, Andre Norton, and so on...
>
> OTOH, how could he argue that Ursula K. Leguin, Zenna Henderson, Vonda
> McIntyre, or Kate Wilhelm can't write good science fiction? How many Hugos
> and Nebulas do they have between them? Zenna Henderson's "Pilgrimmage" is
> still one of my all time favorites.
Caity, Garret died in the 1980s (and at a guess, he changed over his
lifetime, since the last series he started was cowritten with his wife.
When he died in the middle, she finished it). The remark about women
being unable to write SF would be around 1950ish. None of the last four
women you listed started writing and getting published until the 1960s
(Mom is sitting here making noises that she never saw anything by LeGuin
until the 70s... we're both feeling too lazy to go looking on the
shelves for publication dates) at the earliest. C.J. Cherryh, Andre
Norton and MZB all had names that (while their own) happened to seem
masculine. John Wayne's real name was Marion.
Emily (who will continue this after work)
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