Episode 17: Be Bloody, Bold, and Resolute
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Welcome to the October Episode of the Hugo Award-winning SF Squeecast! Episode 17 is called “Be Bloody, Bold, and Resolute.” This episode features the SF Squeecast regulars Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, and Very Special Guest Ellen Kushner! In this episode we squeed about:
- Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick (shared by Lynne M. Thomas)
- Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre (shared by Elizabeth Bear)
- Ludo (shared by Seanan McGuire)
- Dan Dare (shared by Paul Cornell)
- The Flora Fyrdraaca Novels by Ysabeau S. Wilce (shared by Ellen Kushner)
Ellen also answered our silly questions.
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Additional credits: Special thanks to our webmaster, Dmitri Zagidulin, our technical producer David McHone-Chase, Jeff Bohnhoff at Mystic Fig Studios for the instrumentals of music by Seanan McGuire, Katy Shuttleworth, who made our ROCKING logo, and Michael Damian Thomas for general administrative support.
October 17th, 2012 at 12:26 pm
John Scalzi’s The God Engines is the gender mysterious novel of which you speak.
October 17th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
Fun episode.
As I mentioned on Twitter, “The Tell Tale Heart” by Poe also has a non-gender specified protagonist.
October 17th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Thanks!
October 17th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Thank you!
October 17th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
The non-gender specified mystery series mentioned by Ellen Kushner was the Hilary Tamar series by the late Sarah Caudwell. Four books are in the series: Thus Was Adonis Murdered, The Shortest Way to Hades, The Sirens Sang of Murder, and The Sibyl in Her Grave.
October 18th, 2012 at 9:25 am
Great! Thank you!
October 18th, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Actually, the Scalzi stunt writing genderless character is Sam, Archie the hacker’s romantic partner in The Android’s Dream. No pronouns anywhere in the book, and no indication whether they were a same-sex couple or mixed. I assumed same (probably ‘cuz I have LGBT siblings). Rereading it after John let out the secret, I like it much less with the possibility that Sam is female.
Someone who does this even better is Melissa Scott. In The Kindly Ones, the central/viewpoint character, Trey, is never pronouned, never gendered, even though Trey has sexual relationships with members of both genders.
Trey’s profession?
Mediator.
October 19th, 2012 at 11:23 am
We are known as ‘the smart internet people’.