Five Works of Old-School Romantasy

Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
before 2023.

https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/
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In article <utcdle$340$1@reader1.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> Five Works of Old-School Romantasy
>
> Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
> before 2023.
>
> https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/

The C. L. Moore title that came to mind when I saw the subject of your
post was _Judgment Night_.

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On 3/19/2024 9:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> Five Works of Old-School Romantasy
>
> Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
> before 2023.
>
> https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/

O_o We take extra-strength cranky pills this morning?

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In article <utcjas$v0us$2@dont-email.me>,
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>On 3/19/2024 9:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Five Works of Old-School Romantasy
>>
>> Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
>> before 2023.
>>
>> https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/
>
>O_o We take extra-strength cranky pills this morning?

I blame leftover trauma from the "no woman wrote fantasy before
JK ROwling" wars.
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On 3/19/2024 11:06 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <utcjas$v0us$2@dont-email.me>,
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>> On 3/19/2024 9:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> Five Works of Old-School Romantasy
>>>
>>> Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
>>> before 2023.
>>>
>>> https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/
>>
>> O_o We take extra-strength cranky pills this morning?
>
> I blame leftover trauma from the "no woman wrote fantasy before
> JK ROwling" wars.

I am suddenly curious how many cave paintings were done by women.... ;P

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On 3/19/2024 11:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> Five Works of Old-School Romantasy
>
> Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
> before 2023.
>
> https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/

I think that I read the Andre Norton way back when.

I read a lot of Katherine Kurtz, Marrian Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton,
and several other lady SF/F authors back in the 1970s and 1980s.

Lynn

On 19/03/2024 22:39, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 3/19/2024 11:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Five Works of Old-School Romantasy
>>
>> Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
>> before 2023.
>>
>> https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/
>
> I think that I read the Andre Norton way back when.
>
> I read a lot of Katherine Kurtz, Marrian Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton,
> and several other lady SF/F authors back in the 1970s and 1980s.
>
> Lynn

Andre Norton was fenale?! :-)

Actually I knew that.

I think I sort of enjoyed _Sorceress of
the Witch World_ as adventure. I wasn't
judging it as romance. It wasn't awful
!in that respect... I think.

On 21/03/2024 18.40, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On 19/03/2024 22:39, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 3/19/2024 11:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> Five Works of Old-School Romantasy
>>>
>>> Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
>>> before 2023.
>>>
>>> https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/
>>
>> I think that I read the Andre Norton way back when.
>>
>> I read a lot of Katherine Kurtz, Marrian Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton, and several other lady SF/F authors back in the 1970s and 1980s.
>>
>> Lynn
>
> Andre Norton was fenale?!  :-)
>
> Actually I knew that.

When I was a kid, I assumed that "Andre" was a female name, because
of her.

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In article <utjv0c$2u3rg$1@dont-email.me>,
Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 21/03/2024 18.40, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>> On 19/03/2024 22:39, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 3/19/2024 11:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>> Five Works of Old-School Romantasy
>>>>
>>>> Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
>>>> before 2023.
>>>>
>>>> https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/
>>>
>>> I think that I read the Andre Norton way back when.
>>>
>>> I read a lot of Katherine Kurtz, Marrian Zimmer Bradley, Andre
>Norton, and several other lady SF/F authors back in the 1970s and 1980s.
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>
>> Andre Norton was fenale?!  :-)
>>
>> Actually I knew that.
>
>When I was a kid, I assumed that "Andre" was a female name, because
>of her.
>

Ditto!
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:39:43 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 3/19/2024 11:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Five Works of Old-School Romantasy
>>
>> Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
>> before 2023.
>>
>> https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/
>
>I think that I read the Andre Norton way back when.
>
>I read a lot of Katherine Kurtz, Marrian Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton,
>and several other lady SF/F authors back in the 1970s and 1980s.
>
>Lynn

Having read the first of the Miles stories (Mountain of Mourning? It
was in Analog - or was it Asimov's? I was getting both at the time - I
gave them up when I went back to university and was moving every 4
months so expected that if I kept up my subscriptions some of them
wouldn't catch up to my moves)

I know for sure that I didn't thing either it or Enders' Game (also
first published in one of those two) were nearly as good as they
turned out to be at the award level later on - and I read both of
these in the magazines before their first book publication.

On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 01:13:05 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

>On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:39:43 -0500, Lynn McGuire
><lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 3/19/2024 11:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> Five Works of Old-School Romantasy
>>>
>>> Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long
>>> before 2023.
>>>
>>> https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/
>>
>>I think that I read the Andre Norton way back when.
>>
>>I read a lot of Katherine Kurtz, Marrian Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton,
>>and several other lady SF/F authors back in the 1970s and 1980s.
>>
>>Lynn
>
>Having read the first of the Miles stories (Mountain of Mourning? It
>was in Analog - or was it Asimov's? I was getting both at the time - I
>gave them up when I went back to university and was moving every 4
>months so expected that if I kept up my subscriptions some of them
>wouldn't catch up to my moves)

One of the advantages of being in the US Army (well, in the 70's-early
80's at least) was that magazines /did/ forward.

This came in very handy in "helping" the magazine distinguish between
"we sent it but it wasn't forwarded" and "we didn't bother to send it
at all because we figured it wouldn't be forwarded anyway".

I started a habit of always saving the last two lables on each
magazine. I still do, although I haven't moved since 1983.

Old habits die hard.

>I know for sure that I didn't thing either it or Enders' Game (also
>first published in one of those two) were nearly as good as they
>turned out to be at the award level later on - and I read both of
>these in the magazines before their first book publication.
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