for information regarding ms. Griffith
www.nicolagriffith.comAmmonite won the James L. Tiptree award in 1993. I will now give you some of the comments of the award's committee for that year regarding the book. These comments do not belong to me, they are either copy righted by the authors themselves or the Tiptree committee.
First some comments by Urusula LeGuin Quote:...this is the strongest pure science fiction on the list - doing only what SF can do...Is it gender bending?...When you eliminate one gender what's left? (answer the whole world)...alot of books like Moby Dick eliminate one gender and nobody thinks about it....Kate Clinton has the answer "When women go off together it is called separatism. When men go off together it is called Congress"
Now some comments by Jean Gomoll, a Madison WI area fan, and member of the committee that year. She calls the book a rite-of-passage novel, since Marghe, goes through tremendous changes in the book. She continues with the comment Quote:Its gender bending message was that sexuality is only a minor part of human relationships and the planetary human community is only by happenstance, only composed of women.
Remarkably this was first novel by Ms. Griffith. More of my own comments to follow. taraswizard
Allan Rosewarne N9SQT/WDX6HQV
Chicago area
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