tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354250.post5491408955946294469..comments2024-01-31T01:40:57.553-06:00Comments on Adventures in Reading: The Results Are In: The Final Top 10Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16094675116398769415noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354250.post-14591991324331880342010-12-11T12:21:37.029-06:002010-12-11T12:21:37.029-06:00Thanks Joe, I went ahead and did just that. I agr...Thanks Joe, I went ahead and did just that. I agree with what Jo Walton had to say in the comments. Good genre fiction is good genre fiction and deserves to be recognized and celebrated, but I do think it takes some of the edge off the validity of the votes that made up this list when the idea set forth was to recognize science fiction and a fantasy title ends up on the list.Carl V. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948764216438379394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354250.post-24701689981362657322010-12-11T09:59:52.558-06:002010-12-11T09:59:52.558-06:00Click on the Lavinia link. I agree with Jo Walton...Click on the Lavinia link. I agree with Jo Walton. This was a specific exercise about women and science fiction. It's understood by most that women write a lot of fantasy. <br /><br />And if we wanted to include fantasy novels, we'd all have very different lists.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16094675116398769415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354250.post-43507175033563468372010-12-11T09:53:16.093-06:002010-12-11T09:53:16.093-06:00Okay, just curious. Not that I had some big inves...Okay, just curious. Not that I had some big investment in another book, it just bugged me ever so slightly to see a Top 10 'science fiction' list that wasn't able to stick to actually having 10 science fiction titles in it. That sort of thing could be used by someone touchy about the whole thing as an indictment about the presence of female writers in the genre. Not by me, but I've seen these (often, but not always, petty) arguments rise up in the genre community lately and they sometimes fly far afield from being a reasonable discussion.Carl V. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948764216438379394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354250.post-18986189902040069312010-12-11T09:38:34.194-06:002010-12-11T09:38:34.194-06:00No. There was discussion about that in the commen...No. There was discussion about that in the comments to the listing. <br /><br />I think that Niall decided that he wasn't going to judge where other people drew their lines for the genre.<br /><br />He did mention that folks would write in, say they were sad they couldn't vote for Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (to use one example) because it was fantasy, and then go ahead and vote for Lavinia.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16094675116398769415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354250.post-48072961345930931212010-12-10T22:48:07.419-06:002010-12-10T22:48:07.419-06:00Is Lavinia science fiction?Is Lavinia science fiction?Carl V. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948764216438379394noreply@blogger.com