Worldcon Recs

[juliet]

Mirrored from Juliet Kemp.

Here is a list of the recs I picked up from various panels I attended at Worldcon. (These are likely not complete, but they’re the ones that I wrote down.)

In Defense of the Unlikeable Heroine:

• We Who Are About To – Joanna Russ

Non-Binary Representation In Fiction:

• Transcendent: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction – ed K M Szpara (anthology)
• The Black Tides of Heaven / The Red Threads of Fortune – JY Yang (forthcoming in Sept)
• Provenance – Ann Leckie (forthcoming, but read some on her website)
• Jacob’s Ladder – Elizabeth Bear
• River of Teeth – Sarah Gailey
• Pantomime – Laura Lam
• Killing Gravity – Corey J White
• Interactive fiction Craft phone games (Choice of Deathless/City’s Thirst) – Max Gladstone (you can play an nb character)
• “Masculinity is an Anxiety Disorder” (essay) – David J Schwartz
• Rose Lemberg
• Foz Meadows
• A Merc Rustad

Beyond the Dystopia

(This one should be complete as I moderated the panel and made a point of writing them down to tweet afterwards.)

• Two Faces of Tomorrow – James P Hogan
• Culture series – Iain M Banks
• Dragonlance
• Too Like the Lightning and Seven Surrenders – Ada Palmer
• The Postman – David Brin
• A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and A Closed And Common Orbit – Becky Chambers
• Hospital Station – James White
• Malhutan Chronicles – Tom D Wright (panelist)
• Orbital Cloud – Taiyo Fuji (panelist)
• The Goblin Emperor – Katherine Addison

Older Women in Genre Fiction:

• All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye – Christopher Brookmyre
• Blood Songs series – Anthony Ryan
• Remnant Population – Elizabeth Moon
• Barbara Hambly

Also, Catherine Lundoff keeps a bibliography of books with older women protagonists.

Colonialism and the Space Opera:

• Praxis – John Williams

Moving Beyond Orientalism in SFF:

• Black Wolves – Kate Elliot
• Vixen and The Waves – Hoa Pham
• Isabelle Yap
• Ken Liu
• Stephanie Lai
• Zen Cho

(Plus one from Nine Worlds in which the MC has Borderline Personality Disorder: Borderline – Mishell Baker)