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catherineldfOr at least the first round, since I'm doing this from memory. Rachel Gold got her list completed after it broadcast, so it's a tad more thorough.
A partial list of things we talked about on the show:
We interviewed World Fantasy Award-winning author Rachel Pollack, who is also a world-renowned tarot expert. She writes what she calls "shamanic noir" and what others have called "suburban fantasy" where magic works, people control their surroundings via rituals and the protagonists are transfolk, lesbians, bisexuals and queers. You should immediately go out and read her work because it is awesome.
Website
Books we referenced of hers: Unquenchable Fire, Temporary Agency, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Tarot
We talked about the TV shows Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess, Battlestar Galactica and Lost Girl.
Rachel talked about Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch and Jacqueline Carey's Santa Olivia and Saints Astray and Tate Hallaway's Precinct 13 in the context of urban fantasy.
I talked about Emma Bull's War for the Oaks.
Other authors we mentioned, apart from ourselves: Patricia Briggs, Kim Harrison, Kay Kenyon, D. Jordan Redhawk
Gaming: Rachel's list, plus a more detail bibliography.
Comics: I plugged Ursula Vernon's DIgger, Colleen Doran's A Distant Soil, Gail Simone's Birds of Prey and Women in Refrigerators, CLAMP - Legend of Chun Hyang is a personal favorite.
(Con't from yesterday). My recommended reads included P.C. Hodgell's God Stalker series, also known as the Kencyrath. The covers have been horribly "Baenized" so you need to close your eyes and buy it. The contents are totally worth it - the first three being among my all time favorite fantasies. And at no point does the protagonist, who can present as male, ever bare huge mammaries at the world and threaten to pop out of her shirts, just so you know.
Under the heading of cyberpunk, I plugged Melissa Scott's marvelous lesbian cyberpunk novel
Trouble and Her Friends and Lauren Beukes' Zoo City as well as the works of Pat Cadigan.
Rachel recommended Marge Piercy's He, She and It, as well as Joan Slonczewski's Brain Plague as excellent women in sf titles to check out. She also plugged Eleanor Arnason's Ring of Swords, about an alien society drastically divided along (dual) gender lines.
In the sfnal women through space and time section, I mentioned Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Roquia Sakhawat Hussein, Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin and Leigh Brackett. Moving along: Joanna Russ, James Tiptree, Jr., Ursula Le Guin, Kit Reed, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Andre Norton all got name checked. Rachel plugged the works of Sylvia Engdahl and Suzette Haden Elgin, particularly Native Tongue, which is an excellent series about alien linguists, women and language. We then touched on the works of Elizabeth Lynn, J.F. Rivkin, Ellen Galford and Sally Gearhart, among others, before veering off into slash and the influence of Xena fanfic on contemporary lesbian publishing. I also plugged Jewelle Gomez and The Gilda Stories and Rachel plugged Nicola Griffith.
Rounding things out, Rachel recommended Ellen Kushner's The Privilege of the Sword and Eon and Eona by Alison Goodman as excellent fantasies. The latter are part of a YA series about a young woman of great magical power disguised as a boy who is mentored by a transwoman.
I also recommended Broad Universe, an organization which promotes women writers of sf/f/h and the reading thereof and does many great things toward that end (I'm on the board and somewhat, but not entirely biased). I also plugged Diversicon 21, at which I am a guest.
And there was more but I'll have to listen to the show to remember all of it.
A partial list of things we talked about on the show:
We interviewed World Fantasy Award-winning author Rachel Pollack, who is also a world-renowned tarot expert. She writes what she calls "shamanic noir" and what others have called "suburban fantasy" where magic works, people control their surroundings via rituals and the protagonists are transfolk, lesbians, bisexuals and queers. You should immediately go out and read her work because it is awesome.
Website
Books we referenced of hers: Unquenchable Fire, Temporary Agency, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Tarot
We talked about the TV shows Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess, Battlestar Galactica and Lost Girl.
Rachel talked about Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch and Jacqueline Carey's Santa Olivia and Saints Astray and Tate Hallaway's Precinct 13 in the context of urban fantasy.
I talked about Emma Bull's War for the Oaks.
Other authors we mentioned, apart from ourselves: Patricia Briggs, Kim Harrison, Kay Kenyon, D. Jordan Redhawk
Gaming: Rachel's list, plus a more detail bibliography.
Comics: I plugged Ursula Vernon's DIgger, Colleen Doran's A Distant Soil, Gail Simone's Birds of Prey and Women in Refrigerators, CLAMP - Legend of Chun Hyang is a personal favorite.
(Con't from yesterday). My recommended reads included P.C. Hodgell's God Stalker series, also known as the Kencyrath. The covers have been horribly "Baenized" so you need to close your eyes and buy it. The contents are totally worth it - the first three being among my all time favorite fantasies. And at no point does the protagonist, who can present as male, ever bare huge mammaries at the world and threaten to pop out of her shirts, just so you know.
Under the heading of cyberpunk, I plugged Melissa Scott's marvelous lesbian cyberpunk novel
Trouble and Her Friends and Lauren Beukes' Zoo City as well as the works of Pat Cadigan.
Rachel recommended Marge Piercy's He, She and It, as well as Joan Slonczewski's Brain Plague as excellent women in sf titles to check out. She also plugged Eleanor Arnason's Ring of Swords, about an alien society drastically divided along (dual) gender lines.
In the sfnal women through space and time section, I mentioned Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Roquia Sakhawat Hussein, Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin and Leigh Brackett. Moving along: Joanna Russ, James Tiptree, Jr., Ursula Le Guin, Kit Reed, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Andre Norton all got name checked. Rachel plugged the works of Sylvia Engdahl and Suzette Haden Elgin, particularly Native Tongue, which is an excellent series about alien linguists, women and language. We then touched on the works of Elizabeth Lynn, J.F. Rivkin, Ellen Galford and Sally Gearhart, among others, before veering off into slash and the influence of Xena fanfic on contemporary lesbian publishing. I also plugged Jewelle Gomez and The Gilda Stories and Rachel plugged Nicola Griffith.
Rounding things out, Rachel recommended Ellen Kushner's The Privilege of the Sword and Eon and Eona by Alison Goodman as excellent fantasies. The latter are part of a YA series about a young woman of great magical power disguised as a boy who is mentored by a transwoman.
I also recommended Broad Universe, an organization which promotes women writers of sf/f/h and the reading thereof and does many great things toward that end (I'm on the board and somewhat, but not entirely biased). I also plugged Diversicon 21, at which I am a guest.
And there was more but I'll have to listen to the show to remember all of it.