However, I have some additional notes regarding WisCon as follows: One panel, BTW I did not attend this panel, The canon that dare not speak its name - a discussion of a feminist SF&F literary canon. Some of the panel's discussion concerned the appropriateness of establishing a feminist canon, canon presumes hierarchy and exclusion, in the minds of many feminist ideals are non-hierachcal and inclusionary. Regardless, the panel still came up with a list of feminist SF&F titles that are recommended and important:
Ilicit passage by Alice Nun,
Her smoke rose up forever by James Tiptree Jr.,
Houston, Houston do you read by James Tiptree Jr.,
The female man by Joanna Russ,
The left hand of darkness by Ursula LeGuin,
Mortherline series by Suzy McKee Charnas,
On the shore of women by Pamel Sargent,
The gate to women's country by Sheri Tepper,
The invisible man by Ralph Ellison,
Stories for men by John Kessell,
Dust tracks on the road - an autobiography by Zora Neale Hurson,
Childhood's End by Arthur Clarke,
The Iron Dragon's daughter by Michaael Swanwick,
Life during wartime by Lucius Shepard,
Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch,
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers,
A women of the Iron people by Eleanor Arnason,
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith,
Slow river by Nicola Griffith,
Mission child by Maureen McHugh,
A door into ocean by Joan Slonczewski,
Tehanu by Ursula LeGuin,
Paradigm of earth by Candas Jane Dorsey,
Black wine by Candas Jane Dorsey,
Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler,
What I didn't see by Karen Joy Fowler,
Little faces by Joan Vinge,
Carmen dog by Carol Emshwiller,
The mount by Carol Emshwiller,
Maul by Tricia Sullivan,
The Girl Detective by Kelly Wake,
Travels with the snow queen by Kelly Link,
Ring of Swords by Eleanor Arnason,
Everything written by Octavia Butler,
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre,
Solitaire by Kelly Eskridge.
Other titles were suggested by the audience of this panel session, including: Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen by Garth Nix, Sunshine by Robin McKinley, Tithe by Holly Black, Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton, Trash, Sex, Magic by Jennifer Stevenson, Alanya to Alanya by Timmel DuChamp.
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