Women Writers

Important female F&SF writers of the 1970s.  I have read most of these.  Heck, I may have read all of them and just don't remember some.  I have literally read whole libraries several times, and read all the books in favorite sections of several more.

*sigh*  And now I miss when speculative fiction was more than guns, tits & ass, almost all series.

On the bright side, and it is very bright, now we have crowdfunding.  :D

Prairie News

Today we got this announcement from Grand Prairie Friends:


*Welcome Warbler Bottoms North *
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*January 23, 2018*

Grand Prairie Friends (GPF), a conservation land trust, purchased an
additional 140 acres adjacent to Warbler Ridge Conservation Area south of
Charleston to further expand, protect and restore wildlife habitat and
citizen access to green space within the Embarras River Corridor. This
newest GPF addition is bordered on the north by Charleston’s Woodyard
Conservation Area and joins GPF’s already existing properties to the
east and south, with the beautiful Embarras River rounding out the western
boundary. This acquisition now conserves an almost continuous woodland
corridor along the Embarras River from the Woodyard Conservation Area
south to the Fox Ridge State Park and brings Warbler Ridge to 880 acres.

Grand Prairie Friends plans to steward and protect this land in
perpetuity, and it will undergo habitat restoration for species living in
and among the Embarras River corridor.

Moment of Silence: Ursula Le Guin

Author Ursula Le Guin has passed away. Among other things, she gave us the ansible and some interesting stories about sex and gender.

In the Great Con in the Sky, where the grande dames of old sit beside the fire and spin stories, C.L. Moore and Marion Zimmer Bradley scooch over to make room.