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FMK #15: LGBT& Content
Last week's F winner was Journey to the Center of the Earth! K was Malevil, which means another giant tome I no longer have to shelve, yay.
I am still behind on reviewing stuff because I had Six Wakes and All Systems Red and A Close and Common Orbit all in at the library, plus All The Sedoretu, and sometimes you just have to priortize?
But in honor of the Tiptree anthology I picked up for the sedoretu story in it (and Pride), this week's theme is LGBT& content! (Most of these are Tiptree or Gaylactic Spectrum finalists, in fact.)
How FMK works, short version: I am trying to clear out my unreads. So there is a poll, in which you get to pick F, M, or K. F means I should spend a night of wild passion with the book ASAP, and then decide whether to keep it or not. M means I should continue to commit to a long-term relationship of sharing my bedroom with it. K means it should go away immediately. Anyone can vote, you don't have to actually know anything about the books.
I pick a winner on Friday night (although won't actually close the poll, people can still vote,) and report results/ post the new poll on the following Tuesday, and write a response to the F winner sometime in the next week.
Link to long version of explanation (on first poll)
I am still behind on reviewing stuff because I had Six Wakes and All Systems Red and A Close and Common Orbit all in at the library, plus All The Sedoretu, and sometimes you just have to priortize?
But in honor of the Tiptree anthology I picked up for the sedoretu story in it (and Pride), this week's theme is LGBT& content! (Most of these are Tiptree or Gaylactic Spectrum finalists, in fact.)
How FMK works, short version: I am trying to clear out my unreads. So there is a poll, in which you get to pick F, M, or K. F means I should spend a night of wild passion with the book ASAP, and then decide whether to keep it or not. M means I should continue to commit to a long-term relationship of sharing my bedroom with it. K means it should go away immediately. Anyone can vote, you don't have to actually know anything about the books.
I pick a winner on Friday night (although won't actually close the poll, people can still vote,) and report results/ post the new poll on the following Tuesday, and write a response to the F winner sometime in the next week.
Link to long version of explanation (on first poll)
Poll #18514 FMK #15: LGBT Content
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 45
Carnival by Elizabeth Bear (2006)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2000)
A Distant Soil Vol. 2 by Colleen Doran (1998)
Tiptree Anthology 1: Sex, The Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies ed. Karen Joy Fowler (2004)
Jumping Off the Planet by David Gerrold (2001)
Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackeey (1989)
Melusine by Sarah Monette (2005)
Namesake by Steve Orlando and Jakub Rebelka (2017)
Dreamships by Melissa Scott (1992)
Sign of the Labrys by Margaret St. Clair (1968)
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I'm hoping Magic's Pawn will win because I would enjoy the review. Though Sign of the Labrys may also be amazing. It's the one with the infamous "WOMEN WRITE SCIENCE FICTION?! MUST BE WITH MENSTRUAL BLOOD" blurb, right?
Melusine is split between a narrator I absolutely loved and a narrator I couldn't stand. The one I loved is straight. So this may not be the best pick for this theme.
Kavalier and Clay is very good but would produce a less entertaining review than some others. Marry it.
Melissa Scott's books universally sound great and I universally bounce off them.
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...I am not sure if that's the blurb on my copy but it definitely came off as This Is An Example Of That Strange Breed The Feminist SF Novel About Feminists For Women, iirc.
A lot of these are kind of iffy for the theme, though! (The obviously good and obviously queer ones don't end up on my to-read pile long-term....)