(ReacTor) Five Works of Old-School Romantasy

[James Nicoll]

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/

[Robert Woodward]

Post by James Nicoll
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_.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Post by James Nicoll
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?

[James Nicoll]

Post by Dimensional Traveler

Post by James Nicoll
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.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Post by James Nicoll

Post by Dimensional Traveler

Post by James Nicoll
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

[Lynn McGuire]

Post by James Nicoll
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

[Robert Carnegie]

Post by Lynn McGuire

Post by James Nicoll
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.

[Michael F. Stemper]

Post by Lynn McGuire

Post by James Nicoll
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.

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

Post by Lynn McGuire

Post by Lynn McGuire

Post by James Nicoll
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.

Post by Lynn McGuire
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!

[The Horny Goat]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:39:43 -0500, Lynn McGuire

Post by Lynn McGuire

Post by James Nicoll
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.

[Paul S Person]

Post by The Horny Goat
On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:39:43 -0500, Lynn McGuire

Post by Lynn McGuire

Post by James Nicoll
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.

Post by The Horny Goat
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.