I love Russ. Her most famous book is probably The Female Man, but my favorite of hers has to be Picnic on Paradise, and her short story collections rock too. I think it makes perfect sense for her to love the show: Buffy is about the strength and pain of being a woman, and Russ's best works have been about women who're strong, physically and emotionally, and still very much humanly vulnerable. She writes the best feminist science fiction, and Buffy would so be her speed.

dottikin | May 29, 03:08 CET

What is this con??? I looked at the names, the subjects of the panels and I so want to be there!

Lioness | May 29, 03:29 CET

I like And Chaos Died. I'll be very interested in the audio recording. I've never heard either her or Samuel R. Delaney's voice, that I can recall.

dreamlogic | May 29, 04:51 CET

I heard Chip Delaney read once - he was excellent. Good reading voice. Of course he was reading from his own work.

Lioness | May 29, 05:59 CET

I know I've read at least one print interview he did with another writer. He was good. Any word on when and where the recording will be available, whump?

dreamlogic | May 29, 06:42 CET

Speaking of recent cons, I know a number of posters were going to the Slayage Conference in Georgia. Hope those who went had a good time.

Simon | May 29, 12:13 CET

Slayage Conference in Georgia. Hope those who went had a good time.

I'd be interested to see other write-ups too. For what it's worth I did a brief one here.

yourlibrarian | May 29, 23:27 CET

This is very high praise, there is virtually no other SF & F writer as good, insightful, and talented as Joanna Russ. Only James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon) comes anywhere close.

Also, weird to see Octavia Butler on the schedule for this con, since she passed away recently (very sad, much too young).

chickenbird | May 30, 17:15 CET