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  1. Daughters of Earth

    Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award and the William Atheling Jr Award shortlisted for a British Science Fiction Award

    A collection of 11 key stories and set them alongside 11 new essays, written by top scholars and critics, that explore the stories’ contexts, meanings, and theoretical implications. The resulting dialogue is one of significance to critical scholarship in science fiction, and to understanding the role of feminism in its development. Organized chronologically, this anthology creates a new canon of feminist science fiction and examines the theory that addresses it.

  2. Quotidian Climate Catastrophe

    Note: I’m not on Twitter. If you wish to discuss any of these blog posts with me, leave a comment on my blog. I will respond. My sister is texting to find out how we make the niece scrambled eggs. I ask Scott how and text his response. Outside the sky is grey and the […]

  3. My WisCon 40 Guest of Honour Speech

    Today in honour of James Tiptree, Jr.’s birthday I’m publishing my guest of honour speech from this year’s WisCon. WisCon is the longest-running feminist science fiction convention in the world. It’s an amazing con. My fellow guests of honour, Nalo Hopkinson and Sofia Samatar, will also be publishing their speeches. Both speeches are amazing. Check […]

  4. Ten Years of Writing YA Novels For A Living

    It is now TEN WHOLE YEARS since I became a freelance writer. I know, right? How did that happen? Ten years! And one more time because truly my disbelief is high: I HAVE BEEN A FULL-TIME, FREELANCE WRITER FOR TEN WHOLE YEARS. I know it’s also April Fool’s day but I truly did begin this […]

  5. Guest Post: Lili Wilkinson on Sex

    Due to boring circumstances beyond my control, I will not be online much in February. Fortunately I’ve been able to line up a number of stellar guests to fill in for me. Most are writers, but I also thought it would be fun to get some publishing types to explain what it is they do, […]

  6. JWAM reader request no. 5: Characterization (updated)

  7. Contributors

    Brian Attebery is the author of Decoding Gender in Science Fiction and many other critical works. He co-edited, with Ursula K. Le Guin and Karen Joy Fowler, The Norton Book of Science Fiction. Some of Brian’s writing is online: “American Studies: A Not So Unscientific Method,” from American Quarterly 1996, “Metafictions: Stories of Reading” from […]

  8. A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline’s “The Heat Death of the Universe” by Mary E. Papke

    Pamela Zoline exploded onto the science fiction scene in 1967 with the publication of “The Heat Death of the Universe” in New Worlds, a well-known science fiction magazine then under the editorship of Michael Moorcock. An American living in London, Zoline was a twenty-six-year-old student interested in radical art and agit-prop who quickly became a […]

  9. Excerpts

    The following are the introduction and one sample chapters from Daughters of Earth. For extra enjoyment make sure you read the story the essay discusses first. Introduction by Justine Larbalestier A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline’s ‘The Heat Death of the Universe’ by Mary E. Papke (click here to the read the story on […]

  10. “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” by Octavia Butler (1987) and “Octavia Butler—Praise Song to a Prophetic Artist” by Andrea Hairston.

    I only occasionally write essays. Doing art in these plague years, in wartimes, in the face of soul-stunning media assaults is a mighty challenge. I usually save my writing energy for plays and novels. But I make an exception for Octavia Butler. She writes fiction that disturbs as it entertains. Reading her novels and short […]

  11. Reviews

    “Justine Larbalestier, along with a stellar cast of critics, has done a marvellous job in assembling this anthology. It’s not so much about drawing attention to the women men don’t see as showing just what women have seen, understood and written about, and how this has drawn others into an extraordinary discussion between author, reader, […]

  12. Stories & Essays

    Daughters of Earth is made up of eleven pairs of stories and essays. Rather than picking the stories myself (too hard!) I asked eleven scholars to choose which story they’d like to write about. Below are the pairings and the essayist’s reasons for picking their story. There are links to those stories available online as […]

  13. Bibliography

  14. Bio

    I write novels, am obsessed with too many sports, and tweet way too much. My latest novel is My Sister Rosa

    For more info about me there’s a whole bunch of interviews here plus my FAQ.

  15. The Former Me

    In my previous life I was an academic. Not a very successful or prolific one. I spent four and a half years researching and writing my PhD thesis, while on a scholarship and doing paid-by-the-hour teaching (what’s known in the US as being a TA) as well as IT support. After that I was awarded […]

  16. Interviews

    Boomerang Books interviews me about My Sister Rosa. (24 February 2016)

    Booktopia podcast interview with Kirsty Eagar. (January 2016)

    Interviewed by Sara Zarr for her Creative Life podcast. (31 October 2015)

  17. Fourth Anniversary

  18. My very first online ad & other matters

    For the next month, there’s an ad for Magic’s Child up on Locus online. Tis my very first one and I’m dead excited. Ordinarily, I can’t stand ads but somehow it’s different when it’s an ad for one of my books. That makes me want to pat it and sing it songs. Lovely, lovely ad. […]

  19. Woo hoo!

  20. Another award shortlisting

    This time it’s Daughters of Earth1 on the British Science Fiction Association‘s non-fiction shortlist. Let there be w00ting! Here’s the other nominees: The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology, ed. Paul Kincaid and Andrew M. Butler (Serendip Foundation) Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, ed. Justine Larbalestier (Wesleyan University Press) […]

  21. Last Day of 2006

    It’s been another good year for me professionally and I will now skite about it: My second and third books, Magic Lessons and Daughters of Earth, were both published to some very nice reviews and reader responses. The whole Magic or Madness trilogy sold to Editora Record in Brazil, Magic or Madness and Magic Lessons […]

  22. The uses of bad fiction

  23. Misc.

  24. Scott Write Fast

    I get asked a lot about how Scott manages to write as fast as he does. I guess people are too frightened to ask him. Or something. I wonder about how fast Scott writes, too. But then I look at how many books Meg Cabot has out every year (by my count around five) and […]

  25. WisCon is over; now I namedrop

    The combination of jetlag and a cold meant that I did not get as much out of this year’s WisCon as I normally do. But everybody else seemed to be having an amazing time. There were a great many people there that I didn’t even get a chance to say hello to like Suzy McKee […]

  26. Very quick

  27. Feeling Halfway Human

  28. Apologies & Updates

    Sorry for the silence. My excuses are many and covered in mucus and jetlag. Which led to my inadvertantly consigning a number of thoughtful posts to spam purgatory. My apologies. Please comment again. I hope to be non-mucus laden and competent any day now and am much less likely to nuke future comments. While I […]

  29. Wanna ask me any quessies?

    I’m in the middle of updating my website to accommodate the imminent arrival of my next two books, Magic Lessons, the sequel to Magic or Madness, and Daughters of Earth, an anthology of feminist science fiction stories and essays. The lovely Deborah Biancotti is making it all look pretty. Claire Light’s brilliant FAQ has reminded […]

  30. All over the place & a question

    I have a question for sf/fantasy/horror etc readers. Who are the new feminist voices you’re most excited about? I’m hearing great things about Sarah Monette. And I know all about Lauren McLaughlin and Meghan McCarron. But who am I missing out on? Who now is writing books and stories that look at questions of identity, […]

  31. Best Quote Ever

  32. A Lack of Musings

    A friend just asked if I’m ever going to write another musing again. She wonders if this blog has destroyed them for all time. Tis true that I didn’t write a single one in September or October, but then I hardly wrote an email in that time either. But just as I will write emails […]

  33. Writers are the Best Whingers

    Just read and giggled all over this post by Diana Peterfreund in which she wittily whinges about all the work she has to do (and skewers Star Wars). It struck a chord cause I was just about to whinge about the pageproofs of Daughters of Earth which just landed in my life with a very […]

  34. Letters from the Past (Part 2) plus a Rant

    Åka the proprietor of the blog, Läst och tänkt i annien dropped into translate: Läst och tänkt i annien means read and thought in annien, where annien is my “idioverse”, the universe as perceived through my eyes. It is mostly about fandom, books, physics and strange or peculiar things. I was reflecting over the fact […]

  35. Basketball Good

    Once Daughters was banished from my life, yesterday was all basketball all the time. First up: off to Madison Square Garden to watch the Liberty make easy work of destroying the San Antonio Silver Stars. We invited two friends of ours who’ve never seen the Liberty play. I believe we have a couple of converts. […]

  36. All Finished

    The Daughters of Earth manuscript was finished, packed in a box, and posted back to the tender ministrations of its publisher yesterday (only a couple of days late). Magic Lessons is also back with its publisher (on time) and about to be typeset. It should be an ARC in a few weeks. Yay! Thanks to […]

  37. This and That

    Interwebby thingies I read and enjoyed today: Tingle alley has some flittering thoughts about how fascinated she is by other writers’ acknowledgments here and here. Me too! Some more Australian gloating about the coming Ashes series. A cool review of David Levithan’s Boy Meets Boy. Lesson learned today: sometimes google is definitely not all that, […]

  38. Panic!

    There’s an 800 page manuscript sitting on my desk. It’s so very big. The biggest ms. I’ve ever had anything to do with. The enormity of it is paralysing me. Daughters of Earth, my anthology of feminist sf stories and essays, has to be checked and made as perfect as possible in a terrifyingly short […]

  39. Back in Madison

    So here I am back in Madison, Wisconsin for the annual feminist sf convention, WisCon. I just figured out that this is my seventh WisCon, while that’s nothing compared to the folks who’ve come here since the very first one way back in the olden days, it’s pretty damned amazing. There’s no other gathering like […]

  40. A Brief Respite from Deadlines

    It’s 7:30AM on Thursday morning and I’ve been awake for an hour, lying on the couch, watching a repeat of yesterday’s cricket in New Zealand (NZ versus Sri Lanka) and reading C. L. R. James’s Beyond a Boundary. I watch Jayawardene batting beautifully, lots of lovely attacking shocks, including some quite exquisite cover drives while […]

  41. Playing Wife

    a week at Clarion South

  42. Pressing the Send Button

    the sequel to Magic or Madness is finished

  43. December is the Anaemic Month

    It’s pouring right now. Buckets and buckets of lovely rain which I hope is filling Warragamba dam all the way up. (Sadly, it’s also raining in Brisbane which means no cricket. Sob.) I’m taking a tiny break from writing the second volume of Magic or Madness (tentative title: Magic! Magic! Magic! Oi! Oi! Oi!—my compatriots […]