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conulyI managed a short list, nothing but women writers. I ROCK! (Noteworthy, all the books he's previously read that are sci-fi are men of the school of writers that thinks women exist only as cardboard cutouts.)
Is she going to notice the contrast between my list and his already-done list? Will I ever be thanked for my tireless efforts on the behalf of diverse readers everywhere? HAHAHA no.
On a related note, I've been hemming and hawing about getting Winter Tide, and I saw a commentary that moved me towards the "no" side: Native Americans are not mentioned in that book.
As the poster noted, this is a glaring omission for an ancient sorta-human race situated in New England. What they didn't note is that it's also a glaring omission when we're talking about people interned during WWII. In real life, Japanese internees interacted with Native Americans - they had baseball games and basketball games and the like. In some cases, the internees were put to work building infrastructure with the hopes that the government could then resettle small reservations into one big (out of the way, isolated) reservation. In other cases, the internment camps were on reservations. So it's sort of a twofer here.
(Also, if I'm reading these synopses right and the main character ends up in NYC, I feel this is an appropriate place to point out that in that time, Mohawk ironworkers were hard at work building all our skyscrapers. Not that I, personally, bump into ironworkers all the time and it'd be an oversight not to mention this in a story of my life (actually, I think I've known two), but I'm just saying.)
Is she going to notice the contrast between my list and his already-done list? Will I ever be thanked for my tireless efforts on the behalf of diverse readers everywhere? HAHAHA no.
On a related note, I've been hemming and hawing about getting Winter Tide, and I saw a commentary that moved me towards the "no" side: Native Americans are not mentioned in that book.
As the poster noted, this is a glaring omission for an ancient sorta-human race situated in New England. What they didn't note is that it's also a glaring omission when we're talking about people interned during WWII. In real life, Japanese internees interacted with Native Americans - they had baseball games and basketball games and the like. In some cases, the internees were put to work building infrastructure with the hopes that the government could then resettle small reservations into one big (out of the way, isolated) reservation. In other cases, the internment camps were on reservations. So it's sort of a twofer here.
(Also, if I'm reading these synopses right and the main character ends up in NYC, I feel this is an appropriate place to point out that in that time, Mohawk ironworkers were hard at work building all our skyscrapers. Not that I, personally, bump into ironworkers all the time and it'd be an oversight not to mention this in a story of my life (actually, I think I've known two), but I'm just saying.)
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Date: 2018-08-21 04:39 pm (UTC)And out of curiosity, did you include Becky Chambers Long Way To A Small And Angry Planet?
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Date: 2018-08-21 06:13 pm (UTC)Though I mentioned that my favorite is Record of a Spaceborn Few.
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Date: 2018-08-21 06:17 pm (UTC)I haven't gotten to that one yet, I look forward to it.