Obiwan-flish, please help

[ximeria]

I've got a friend who's working on her dis, and she's hunting for articles and such and considering the combined brain capacity of my flist, I figured one or three of you there might be able to come up with some links or suggestions for books even, if anything's been published.

her question goes as follows:


Can you think of any names of academic fans or mainstrem academics or possibly slash fans, who have formulated theories about homoerotic profic (professionally published novels) in the science fiction and fantaasy genres (speculative fiction). Any names/links/articles come to mind?

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[merrily]

I can point you near where such might be, though no particular authors come to mind immediately. The anthologies of stuff nominated for the James Tiptree Jr award (for exploration and expansion in gender & sexuality in SF/F) (vols one, two, three) might have some good leads.

I also forwarded your entry to toft, because I remember her teaching a course last year that included an SF/F book with Views On Homosexuality (don't remember the title or author). The book's opinions were unfortunate, but it might have prompted essays that would be helpful to your friend.

[toft]

The book was 'Ilium' by Dan Simmons, and I plan one day to publish something about it, but I dunno if there's any academic work on it.

[ximeria]

Well, it's worth checking it out. It's one of Simmons' books that I haven't read myself, but the more material to work with, the better.

[ximeria]

Herby noted and shipped onto her to check out. Having said that, I'm quite interested in all this stuff as well XD

[merrily]

I can highly recommend the Tiptree Award anthologies. I own all of them and each has an exceptional selection of writing, which is good both on its own and as a springboard for further reading.

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

niennah is doing post-grad work in a similar vein - it might be worth putting them in touch with each other.

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

I'm going to suggest that to her ^_^ - thanks.

[cc-weasel.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for here, but figured I'd chime in just in case. I know Sarah Monette (http://truepenny.livejournal.com/) has published a whole series of really good fantasy stories.

I'm unaware of academic articles in general so I'll probably just add links to her. Hope that was useful somehow. If nothing else the Labyrinth stories were a good read.

http://www.sarahmonette.com/

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Damn, I'm so behind on my replies, it's not even funny. I've relayed your links to my friend and she's currently knee deep in her project, so thank you so much for the input and help ^_^

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

Jacqueline Lichtenberg (http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/)

Tell your friend to look up Jacqueline's essays on "Intimate Adventure" in the Monthly Aspectarian online publication, or any links on the page referenced above.

Jacqueline waxed eloquent on the subject in one or more essays about Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Catch Trap, a slashy novel published in (I think) the 1950s. I don't think it is fantasy--it's about a trapeze artist--but is well worth reading, and MZB put lots of other homoerotic themes into other works of hers. Jacqueline has many theories about slash and homoerotic profic, etc.

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

*beams*
Thank you for the links and suggestions. I had forgotten that MZB had some pretty homoerotic themes in her books. I don't think I've read books by her since I was in my mid teens XD

Time to re-read too, me thinks.

Cheers, links forwarded and my friend cheered and says thank you too.