Modern Masters of Science Fiction f/m

[james_davis_nicoll]

Modern Masters of Science Fiction is devoted to books that survey the work of individual authors who continue to inspire and advance science fiction.

Total  Female  Male  F/T
12       2      10   .17

You'd think since Russ and Le Guin were name-checked in the body of the description they'd have been considered worthy of a monograph but of course you'd be wrong.

Comments

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

No Heinlein or Asimov, either, though. Although I do think they're rather skewed. Egan, and not Cherryh? Benford, and not Zelazny? No namecheck for Norton?

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

How can either of those two worthies continue to advance science fiction, being as they've been dead more than twenty years?

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Brunner's dead too.

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

I'd venture to say that the number of dead people on the list of modern science fiction authors inspiring and advancing the genre is a bigger problem than the lack of women.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

None of the name checks are in the forthcoming list, which suggests that they're deliberately picking less studied writers, which I am in favor of.

[(Anonymous)]

Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury are in both lists.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

The description says "continue to", and I believe every name-checked author is currently dead.

[(Anonymous)]

But so are several of the authors on the list of subjects of forthcoming volumes. (I considered the possibility that the criterion was a value of modern that excluded Le Guin and Russ, but the list of forthcoming works shoots down that hypothesis is as well.)

[(Anonymous)]

My guess is that the list of forthcoming works is not a list of authors the commissioning editor thinks are worthy of a monograph, but rather a list of authors he has found a writer interested in producing a monograph about.