Helix SF has all-woman issue and nobody notices

[james_davis_nicoll]

To quote William Sanders:

There's been a lot of talk in the SF community - some of it rather intemperate, as always happens in such cases - about "gender bias" in the genre or in certain magazines, about the largely estrogen-challenged Hugo list, etc. You'd think that there would be a favorable reaction when a magazine comes out with an all-women's issue. Realistically, I don't expect it's going to happen, to any great extent - that's how it goes, people yell and scream about something and then when somebody does something about it they don't have a word to say - but somebody ought to say SOMETHING.

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I have something to say about this:

Part of the lack of public reaction to this might be related to the fact that Analog, that stodgiest of stodgy SF magazines, had their all-woman issue in June 1977.



[Added later]

Actually, because of the realities of publishing (and more to the point, the desire not to piss off readers by interrupting serials) there were a couple of betesticled ringers in there:

The Screwfly Solution • shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon ]
The Ax • shortfiction by Jayge Carr
Salamander • shortstory by Leigh Kennedy
Lord of All It Surveys • shortstory by Alison Tellure
Eyes of Amber • (1977) • novelette by Joan D. Vinge
After the Festival (Part 3 of 4) • serial by George R. R. Martin
"And Then There Were Nine..." • essay by Trudy E. Bell
Biolog: Trudy E. Bell • essay by Jay Kay Klein
Tunnel Visionaries • essay by Teri Rapoport

Comments

Re: As you know

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

That's funny, I saw by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon ] and completely misread it because I know who Tiptree really was.