For my final entry in Female Science Fiction authors I’ve chosen Valentina Zhuravleva for two reasons: the first is because she’s Russian and; the second is for this review written two years ago. James Lecky, author of the blog, goes into raptures about Zhuravleva’s short story The Astronaut and affirms it as ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
The second in this series of author photos from the Book Expo 2015. Cycle of Life by Carol Cooke Carol Cooke is an amazing lady, I bemoan the fact I had no time to actually sit and listen to her story. Despite having MS she has overcome adversity and won ...
Jane Yolen: born in 1939 has done so, so much this post should be in shorthand in order to encompass even a fraction of her output, instead I’ll only give a few highlights that I’ve found. She’s written over 300 books in fantasy, science fiction and children’s literature, Yolen has ...
Continuing with this series I found I had such choice for X. I could either do Xia Jia or Xia Jia, you’ll never guess who I chose… Xia is such an energetic person I could almost treat her as several people. It’s actually the pseudonym of Wang Yao and I’m remembering here that ...
Connie Willis, much nominated for many awards and winner of many awards. If you go to her Wikipedia page you’ll see the list of awards she’s been both nominated for and won, it’s extensive so she must be doing something right. It does make me wonder about a book review ...
including faxes that have totally faded over the years Rebus author Ian Rankin wants to do a wonderful thing and donate his archive of papers to National Library of Scotland. Donating an archive to a library where it will be able to be viewed and used is a wonderful thing and ...
I had 30 minutes to find an author of the appropriate letter and found someone in two! Amy Thomson is was born in America in 1958 and entered the writing field in 1994 with her first book Virtual Girl which went on to win the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer ...
Zooming through the many authors starting with the letter S I spotted Pamela Sargent, not quite sure why I remember her name but I’m sure it has something to do with reading some of her works except I can’t quite pin anything down. She’s written enough short stories for Martin ...
R is much easier than Q, I happened on an Australian author! Spare Parts by Sally Rogers-Davidson I’ve spent so much time on the internet looking at items from overseas that things feel a bit strange and unreal when I find someone from Melbourne, Australia. Sally Rogers-Davidson was born right here in Melbourne ...
O is not a common letter when we’re looking at female science fiction authors and I had very few people to choose from, by the time I eliminated those I really wasn’t interested in I still had four and then I found Kate Orman and knew I’d found the one! ...
Andre Norton is one of those iconic writers and if you haven’t read any of her books then I must recommend you rectify that pretty quickly. I know I’ve had some of my shelf but maybe they were transient due to borrowing from somewhere else. I always wondered about her name and ...
I really couldn’t do anyone other than Anne McCaffrey for today’s letter, it just wouldn’t be right. McCaffrey has been on my favourite author list for a very long time, far longer than I care to remember. I don’t like all of her books, I especially don’t like the Ship ...
There is only one possible author for today’s article and that is Ursula K. Le Guin. Her books are from my childhood and so many other people’s childhoods. We’re talking the Earthsea Quartet and you can see the first book, The Wizard of Earthsea, in this photo. And then we’re talking ...
Today I’ve ummm and ahhhed about which author to cover, I’ve opened far too many Wikipedia pages and gradually whittled them away to half a dozen only to then go through each author again until I finally only had two people. Do I go with Jean E Karl who edited ...
J has been the hardest letter to decide to date. I ended up with two totally worthy candidates and the only difference was their age, I went with the older writer as I figured she’d have more of a handle on the issues they were both espousing. N. K. Jemisin, born ...