The Women Dustin Hoffman Didn't See

The Science Fiction Book Club Reviews Revisited: 1967

List and price comment courtesy of Andrew Wheeler

1967 -- when the standard club price went from $1.00 to an amazing $1.49!

1967 was a very important year up here in Canada:

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A classic from the golden age of soc-history.what-if

Ian Samuels' WI Civilization had flourished in temperate zones

In discussion with a friend the other day, an
interesting idea for a what-if came up: what if
civilization, instead of flourishing mostly in
tropical and subtropical regions as in OTL, had
thrived in temperate zones. ( Read more... )

State-sanctioned coersed sterilization alive and well in US

Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals, the Center for Investigative Reporting has found.

[...]

Former inmates and prisoner advocates maintain that prison medical staff coerced the women, targeting those deemed likely to return to prison in the future

QWP: a request for paired SF books

I could use a bit of advice. I belong to a SF book club for women in the KW area, and for our September book I was think of proposing two books; a classic from pre 1975-ish, and a more modern novel, say after 1995, with some elements in common. So far all I’ve come up with are Bester’s The Demolished Man, and Alex Hughes’ Clean (both feature telepathic cops). I want to give the ladies two or three pairings to choose from, so I’m looking for a source that will help me find other ‘matching’ books, perhaps 2 space operas and 2 time-travel books. The books can’t be too long – it wouldn’t be fair to ask them to read a pair of 600 page doorstops – so I was thinking no longer than about 350 pages.

If you can think of any books off the top of your head, that would be wonderful! If not, do you know of any websites that could help me in my search?

(specifically SF, not fantasy. I missed that)


What I suggested:


>Generation ships:
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> Orphans of the Sky, Robert Heinlein (short but also very sexist, even for the time)
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> The Creative Fire (Book One of Ruby's Song), Brenda Cooper: Evita IN SPACE!
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> When Divine Romance Goes Horribly Wrong
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> Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemison.
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> Dragon Sword and Wind Child/Tales of the Magatama, Book I
> Noriko Ogiwara (Trans. Cathy Hirano)
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> UN Telepaths: Threat or Menace
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> The Whole Man (AKA Telepathist), John Brunner
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> Emerald Eyes, Daniel Keys Moran
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> Collections of stories about robots:
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> I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
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> Tales of Ibis, by Hiroshi Yamamoto (Trans. Takami Nieda)
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> Oh John Scalzi No
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> Little Fuzzy, H. Beam Piper
> http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18137
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> Fuzzy Nation, John Scalzi
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> The Planet of (mostly) Women!
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> A Voice Out of Ramah, Lee Killough (good luck finding it)
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> (You could probably find Poul Anderson's Virgin Planet but it has not aged well)
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> Ammonite, Nicola Griffith
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> The Planet of (mostly) Men!
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> Spartan Planet, A Bertam Chandler (First Command from Baen contains it)
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> Ethan of Athos, Lois McMaster Bujold
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> Against the Undead
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> I, Legend, by Richard Matheson
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> Feed, by Mira Grant
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> I Have Terrible Taste in Boyfriends:
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> Dracula, by Bram Stoker
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> Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
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> Teleportation
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> The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester
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> Jumper, Steven Gould
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> My Protagonist is Useless or Worse
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> Northwest of Earth, C.L. Moore
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> Twilight, Stephenie Meyer

CBS Radio Workshop: You Could Look It Up ( James Thurber)

You Could Look It Up

The tale of a midget's brief baseball career. This predates Eddie Gaedel's actual baseball career. Unrelated to Pride of the Bimbos, also featuring a midget baseball player.

CBS Radio Workshop: The Silent Witness

The Silent Witness

Raymond Burr plays a lawyer whose only impediment to total victory is a single mute witness of seemingly easily besmirched character. Hilarity ensues.

Yeah, I finished my book early

So I rolled up an Icons character. ( Read more... )