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ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 9, number 10 - October Oct 1985: Green Days in Brunei; The Things That ...

1 review
Shawna (editor) (Bruce Sterling; Frederik Pohl; Avon Swofford; Gardner Dozios; Michael Swanwick; John M. Ford; Karen Joy Fowler) McCarthy

Davis Publications, 1985

Great reading!
This digest size sci-fi pulp magazine has stories by sf great Frederik Pohl, Gardner Dozois & Michael Swanwick & others, including the amusing "Scrabble With God," by John M. Ford.

The Sweetheart Season

11 reviews
Karen Joy Fowler

Ulverscroft Large Print, 1996

A 1947 larger than life
Fowler's delightful second novel is the story of the magical, postwar summer of 1947 when the hometown soldiers never returned to the small town of Magrit and the young women formed a baseball team to find husbands - and prove the efficacy of breakfast cereal. Or is it? The story is narrated by the now-middle-aged daughter of Irini Doyle, the Sweetwheat Sweetheart's home-run hitter and strong ...

The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies (The James Tiptree Award ...

4 reviews

Tachyon Publications, 2004

groundbreaking, provocative, and hot
The Tiptree Award is given to speculative fiction (fantasy and science fiction) that pushes the boundaries of gender. The award was named for a writer (James Tiptree, Jr.) extolled for masculine writing, who was later revealed to be a woman (Alice Sheldon). The Tiptree bake sales were created to be an ironic source of funding for the award. Hence the tag line of this subversive anthology: "Sex, ...

Sister Noon

18 reviews
Karen Joy Fowler

Thorndike Press, 2001

History and Mystery Unite in This Fascinating Novel
The major strength of this novel is its eerily evocative prose. Fowler is one of those writers who makes novel-writing seem effortless. In addition, her writing style and stories are unique because of the seamless way she blends fact with fiction. This particular novel takes place in San Francisco in the late-1800s. It centers on a spinster named Lizzie who finds herself intrigued by one of the ...

Reading Women

3 reviews
Stefan Bollmann

Merrell, 2006

A celebration of women's love of books as depicted in paintings and drawings
Featuring 200 beautiful color images of artwork from the Middle Ages to the present, Reading Women is a celebration of women's love of books as depicted in paintings and drawings. Each eye-catching illustration has a facing page offering a brief history of the art, and a smattering of critical interpretation by editor, educator, and author Stefan Bollman. A forward by award-winning author Karen ...

Terminal Visions

4 reviews
Richard Paul Russo

Golden Gryphon Press, 2000

Nominated for the Arthur C. Clark Award
Terminal Visions is an outstanding anthology showcasing fourteen short story writings of Richard Russo. The compelling selections include science fiction themes (eleven set on Earth). The themes run from alien encounters to the human condition to triumph over seemingly overwhelming conditions. Terminal Visions very nicely documents why Russo, who has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and been ...

MOTA 3: Courage

4 reviews

TripleTree Publishing, 2003

Crisp and interesting stories, something for everyone
The great thing about an anthology like this one, produced by a small publisher, is that you're seeing a more diverse cross-section of writers than you usually do in similar anthologies by any of the major publishers. I was somewhat surprised to learn that the stories were produced by relatively young or unpublished writers. While all of the stories are good, three stood out for me: "Loneliness ...

Artificial Things

1 review
Karen Joy Fowler

Spectra, 1986

Imaginative, fresh, rich, one of the best new authors
I know of very few authors whose prose is so imaginative. Every single story was a surpise full of original ideas, richly developed characters, moving situations... From alien experiments in a suburban street to a woman trying to come to terms with her memory of a man who killed and died in Vietnam, Fowlers' stories kept me reading and thinking. Highly recommended, regardless of your favourite ...

The Complete Novels (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

25 reviews
Jane Austen

Penguin Classics, 2006

Definitely recommended.
I was looking for an edition of Austen's collected works that fit well in my hands, and this fits the bill. The pages are crisp, clean and the typeset is quite handsome (rather easy on the eyes). It isn't too heavy or bulky and the pages don't unknowingly flail out of place--causing you to lose your spot. For the layperson, the introduction is an added benefit, but if you're smart you'll just ...

Black Glass: Stories (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

6 reviews
Karen Joy Fowler

Ballantine Books, 1999

Fifteen Dark Gems
As wonderful as Fowler's novels are, her short stories pack an even bigger punch. The blurb on the inside front cover wants you to notice that there are stories here about Gulliver's Travels, Carry Nation and the Lone Ranger and Tonto, but don't let the publisher's name-dropping turn you off; Fowler doesn't need to invoke names of legend or other fictions to tell her stories. She's got wit and ...

The Jane Austen Book Club

282 reviews
Karen Joy Fowler

Plume, 2005

Let the Jane Austen Fest Begin
I've been on vacation and this means time to indulge in all my favorite activities, including reading a lot of books and watching a lot of films. I began feeding my Austen hankering with this book, The Jane Austen Book Club and it set the tone for an in depth look at this amazing talent, that manages to still play in the twenty first century. The characters in this story, who gather together ...

Isaac Asimov's 1988--Jul

1 review
Connie Willis, Dave Wolverton. Contributors include Karen Joy Fowler

Davis Publications, 1988

Not Free SF Reader
The pick of this issue is of course Willis' most excellent dog disease outbreak story, with interesting stuff from Wolverton, Landis and Barnes. So, quite well done with a 3.50 average. Fun ad at the start for the 1 buck version of Car Wars. (high speed bootlegger reverse while on fire a bad idea, btw). Short bit on games, and book reviews include Swordspoint, with an editorial by Asimov on ...

The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2: Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies (The James Tiptree Award ...

1 review

Tachyon Publications, 2005

issues of gender roles
It's not your typical science fiction anthology. Rather, you might treat it as sitting on the fringes between SF and maybe sociology. The book is inspired by Tiptree's memorable fiction of the 70s and 80s. It looks at issues of gender roles and the expectations of these by a society. Several of the contributors are very prominent, like Ursula le Guin, and Joe Haldemann. The editors' choice of ...

The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender (The James Tiptree Award ...

1 review
Karen Joy Fowler

Tachyon Publications, 2007

An excellent study in science-fiction.
I bought this book for a sci-fi class I was taking and was very impressed. The stories selected are each unique in their own way and make a statement not only about science fiction, but about gender and women's issues.

Wit's End

17 reviews
Fowler, Karen Joy

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2008

Family, fiction, Internet
Fiction, family, loss, recovery and the Internet intersect in this novel in a fascinating mix. The Santa Cruz setting is wonderful and the political asides are great. I highly recommend it.

Sarah Canary

25 reviews
Karen Joy Fowler

Zebra, 1993

WONDERFULLY WRITTEN STORY
Its a story about a Chinese man named Chin Ah Kin who works in a Labor camp in the 1870s and a mysterious woman wanders into the Chinese labor camp and they befriend each other. She mysteriously disappears befriending people on the way. This is a wonderfully written story about cultural differences and this woman is mistaken for someone else. She doesnt talk but she sings like a canary so shes ...

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