Feminist Science Fiction Fans discussion

Feel free to nominate here for upcoming group reads!

I would love to nominate the Native Tongue trilogy by Suzette Haden Elgin, I've read the first but would like to re-read/refresh and carry on to the next two if anyone else is interested.

Native Tongue
The Judas Rose
Earthsong

I've also just gotten copies of Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century and The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction and think they would be great to read as a group.

Those all sound interesting to me! Here are some books on my to-read list - I would enjoy reading any of them with others in the group:

The Left Hand of Darkness
Ammonite
The Gate to Women's Country
The Female Man
Oryx and Crake
Parable of the Sower
Daughter of Elysium
Mission Child

Those are all great books! Daughter of Elysium is on my list too

I'd like to recommend the following ~

1) vN by Madeline Ashby


2) Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon



3) Marque and Reprisal by Elizabeth Moon

So the idea is to nominate things you want to read rather than things you have read and figure might be of interest?
I'd be uneasy nominating stuff I haven't read. Which would leave stuff I want to re-read I guess.

You can nominate things you have already read and think would be good to talk about in a group setting, or works you have not yet read but are interested in. It is tricky nominating something you haven't read yet, I've done this a few times then had the book be less-than-great haha.

Will there be any process of seconding nominations or voting or anything? (That might allay some fears of nominating a book no one likes...)

I will likely set up a poll where we can all vote for which of the nominations we would like to read, unless anyone has suggestions for another system for selecting?

Ancillary Justice By Anne Leckie is also very interesting besides being a rousing space opera. We read this in The Sword and Laser book club and a lot of people took issue with the fact that Leckie uses the female pronoun as the default when referring to the citizens of a society that does not value gender. Some people embraced it and some were confused, and it was fun to watch folks make a big deal over something that shouldn't be.

Some books I've been wanting to read:
Ammonite
Brown Girl in the Ring
Tea from an Empty Cup
Graceling
Servant of the Underworld
Waking the Moon
Beggars in Spain
and Ancillary Justice looks interesting!

Ammonite and Brown Girl in the Ring are both great. Thanks for the noms!!

I had forgotten about this thread but the LeGuin I reco'd in the other thread ought to be nominated: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...
As I mentionned there, at least one story isn't included and some of the stories are more on topic than the others. But they're not catalogued separately here so here you go.

And maybe the votes on the last poll ought to be considered as nominations. Only some of the books people had voted for have been nominated so far.

Servant of the Underworld is in my opinion not feminist and is in any case definitely not SF.
She's sold quite a few stories and I haven't read them all but in another thread, I mentionned a novella of hers which also has a historical component but might possibly qualify as feminist SF (depending on your definition): http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
This isn't a nomination.

Can someone who has read Tea from an Empty Cup second that nomination? Or nominate another Cadigan instead?

Yes, it's always a bit hit or miss when you're nominating books you haven't actually read.

Graceling is a good book, but is also a bit more in the fantasy vein. It's so hard nominating things you haven't read! I feel the same way.

I haven't read Tea from an Empty Cup - or any Pat Cadigan, actually - but I have Mindplayers on my shelf right now...

I mentioned this in the introduction thread as well, but The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women might be interesting to look into.