Top geek novels

[John Pfersich]

What about Andre Norton? I know there were some other early female SF
authors also used male sounding names, or used their huband's name as a
pseudonym. But not off the top of my head.

And what about Frankenstein? In the Gothic SF genre.

At 03:57 PM 11/22/2005 -0700, McNamara, Laura A wrote:

>I've read 5 or 6 of them....
>
>At the risk of sounding like one of those whiny feminists that Rush
>Limbaugh routinely bashes, I note that these are all male authors, so
>that might explain why this particular female geek isn't as familiar
>with these books. But there are some great geek novels written by women!
>I'm a huge Ursula LeGuin fan, for example. I'm surprised she's not on
>that list. The Dispossessed is one of the best books I've ever read. So
>is The Left Hand of Darkness.  Unforgettable.
>
>Laura
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:Friam-bounces at redfish.com] On
>Behalf Of Russell Standish
>Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:46 PM
>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Top geek novels
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>For me, 7 out of the 20. The interesting thing is that 5 of these were
>in the top 8, and another 2 of the top 8 are novels I definitely want to
>read when I get a round tuit (only got square ones here :). So you get
>good agreement with me!
>
>Cheers
>
>
>
>On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:22:16PM -0700, J T Johnson wrote:
> > Who amongst us has not read at least one of these? Who's read them
>all?
> >
> > >From Ex Libris: an E-Zine for Librarians and Other Information
>Junkies.
> > http://marylaine.com/exlibris/
> > Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2005.
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> >
> > "Top 20 Geek Novels
> > http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2005/11/09/top_20_geek
> > _novels_the_results.html
> >
> > Here's an idea for a display, a program, and a contest at your library
>
> > (because not everybody's going to agree with this list). Whoever's
> > read the most of these titles gets to run the program."
> >
> > -tj
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[Roger Critchlow-2]

On 11/22/05, John Pfersich <jp1660 at att.net> wrote:
> What about Andre Norton? I know there were some other early female SF
> authors also used male sounding names, or used their huband's name as a
> pseudonym. But not off the top of my head.

James Tiptree, Jr. (off the top of my head) inspired by a jar of
marmalade (from the biography at
http://mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11072/Tiptree/).

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