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cowboy vampires vs. zombie pirates.


discuss.

Manthology fail- Because real scifi is written with the peen

OH FOR FUCKS GODDAMN FUCKING ASSBITING SAKE.

www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/08/toc-the-mammoth-book-of-mindblowing-sf-edited-by-mike-ashley/index.html


REALLY? I NEED BIGGER CAPSLOCK.

And maybe mr difilippo is defending it so hard because if it weren't all white boys he might not have made the cut, if he were up against, say connie willis or octavia butler.

and, no one is saying 'omg, mike ashley hates the wimminzes!'  people are saying, 'maybe, as a white guy, what he finds to be the most mindblowing stories is subconsciously biased towards other white boys, and unless he doesn't care about appealing to a wider audience than hisself and other whiteboys, maybe he should think outside his own skin for a goddamn minute'    If I were putting together an anthology of the most mind blowing skiffy, and realized that every story I picked was written my someone in my demographic, I'd like to think that i would recognizing that i was cherry picking based on my personal tastes, which are influenced by my personal biases,  and unless the anthology was designed for me and mine alone, that i would need to broaden my selections based on more objective standards than my own biased tastes.
but apparently it's an insult to suggest that someone may be influenced by their own tastes and that those tastes are shaped by their biases and society.


I'm just gonna go back to swearing quietly in the corner, because I ain't gonna get through to any of the motherfuckers that don't get it.

especially not with this tone.

unscientific research.

3/19, 2/11, 1/9, 2/14, 1/5, 2/15. 1/21, 0/19

can you guess?

Gurls can't write the skiffy.

Suzette Haden Elgin
Elizabeth Bear
Lois McMaster Bujold
Octavia Butler
Gwynneth Jones
Pat Cadigan
Suzy McKee Charnas
Nalo Hopkinson
Nancy Kress
Ursula K. Le Guin
Vonda McIntyre
Maureen McHugh
Linda Nagata
Andre Norton
Joanna Russ
Melissa Scott
Alice Sheldon - as James Tiptree, Jr. and Raccoona Sheldon
Mary Shelley
Connie Willis
Kate Wilhelm
Sherri Tepper
Karen Joy Fowler
Tanith Lee
Pat Murphy
C.L. Moore
Ann mcCaffery
Kit Reed
some copied from the fsfwiki, some brainstormed.

added by flist
Jo Clayton

Vonda McIntyre
Pamela Sargent and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
C.J. Cherryh

eleuki bes shahar

Catherine Asaro (physicist AND lover of romance plotlines!)
Vandana Singh
Nisi Shawl
Susan Palwick (And if Gestella isn't mind-blowing I dunno what is)
Elizabeth Moon
R.M. Meluch
Patricia McKillip (who has written SF, and odd and mind-twisting stuff it is)
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Joan Vinge

Maybe not all have them have written anything 'mind blowing' but a lot of them sure as fuck have.