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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Top GLB Fiction
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- References: <1grnmbINNcr2@mizar.usc.edu> <1992Dec19.023340.17274@spdcc.com> <18214@autodesk.COM>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:11:39 GMT
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- In article <18214@autodesk.COM> randyc@autodesk.com (Randy Clark) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Dec19.023340.17274@spdcc.com> joe@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis)
- >writes:
- >>There are certainly gay science fiction writers, but I don't think they
- >>write very well.
- >
- > ????? In general probably true, but I think Delaney
- > among the best SF/fantasy writers working today.
-
- There's also Joanna Russ, if we're talking women. However, I'm not
- sure whether she identifies her work as SF.
-
- There are other people, James Tiptree, Jr. and others like her, who
- have been at the forefront of a highly intriguing gender-bending
- movement within SF. Trivia: a short story in Isaac Asimov's was the
- first work I ever saw to use the word "heterosexuality."
-
- > (I'll attempt to forestall the otherwise inevitable
- > chorus of people saying he's bisexual by pointing
- > out he often describes himself as "gay.")
-
- Sigh ... yes. Besides, his personal history suggests that any
- opposite-sex attractions of his have been fleeting and less than
- heartfelt. I do wish I'd had the courage to call him for an interview
- while I was working on my bisexuality paper last semester.
-
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