Looking for some new reading material? the Tiptree Award has been given out and posted on it's website. The winner for 2011 is Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston (Aqueduct Press, 2011). You can also review the Honor list and the Long list
I've spent quite a bit of time in my life defending Science Fiction and Fantasy to people who say that it's all nonsense and has nothing to do with reality. I tell them that Science Fiction and Fantasy explores many of the same issues that other works of fiction do, just in a different kind of setting. We read about class, racial and gender oppression. We explore politics, war and what could happen after we use up the Earth's resources. We examine the human psyche, love, kinship and trust. And we take time to celebrate all this wonderful and thoughtful work. The Tiptree Award is an example of our appreciation.
What is the Tiptree Award?
"In February of 1991 at WisCon (the world’s only feminist-oriented
science fiction convention), award-winning SF author Pat Murphy
announced the creation of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, an annual
literary prize for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores
our understanding of gender...The aim of the award is not to look for work that falls into some narrow
definition of political correctness, but rather to seek out work that
is thought-provoking, imaginative, and perhaps even infuriating. The
Tiptree Award is intended to reward those women and men who are bold
enough to contemplate shifts and changes in gender roles, a fundamental
aspect of any society." - http://tiptree.org/welcome
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