tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259460772864393968.post9047055425731342771..comments2024-03-26T21:58:50.501-04:00Comments on MPorcius Fiction Log: 1982 stories from Russ, Effinger, Ellison, and Platt & McCarthyMPorciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15515742639389937221noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259460772864393968.post-76619100761326904152016-03-28T23:03:17.713-04:002016-03-28T23:03:17.713-04:00Read more Russ. If you liked that, try her Alyx s...Read more Russ. If you liked that, try her Alyx stories -- they are at first glance sort of traditionalist narratives (at least some of them) but the protagonist is a woman (who also has gone through hell in her earlier life). <br /><br />Knight wrote this fun little intro to Russ' "The Barbarian" (1968) in Orbit 3: <br /><br />"If Joanna Russ had consulted me before beginning to write her Alyx stories (see "I Gave Her Sack and Sherry" and "The Adventuress," in Orbit 2), I would have told her nobody could get away with a series of heroic fantasies of prehistory in which the central character, the barbaric adventurer, is a woman. [...] It is a little idiotic, isn't it, that woman in adventure stories should have been restricted to the roles of simpering princesses and insatiable vampires? ...and that even women writers, crushed by convention, should have been too timid to tell us what women are really like? The attractive thing about Alyx is that she really is not a cardboard fantasy figure, but a real person. And incidentally, this is the overlooked clue to the age-old "mystery" about women: they are people."<br /><br />And yeah, Malzberg and Platt... loved mudslinging. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com