The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 (The WisCon Chronicles #1)

L. Timmel Duchamp, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, Andrea Hairston, Ted Chiang, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lisa Tuttle, Joan Haran, Nancy Jane Moore, Sylvia Kelso, Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany, Nisi Shawl, Trina Robbins, Suzy McKee Charnas, Liz Henry, Rosaleen Love, Carol Emshwiller, Mark Rich, Micole Sudberg, Rachel Swirsky, Laura Quilter, Yoon Ha Lee, Linda Wight, Daintha Day Sprouse, Julie Philips, K. Tempest Bradford, Spike Parsons


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4.00 · 1 ratings · 196 pages · Published: 01 Aug 2007

The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 by L. Timmel Duchamp, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, Andrea Hairston, Ted Chiang, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lisa Tuttle, Joan Haran, Nancy Jane Moore, Sylvia Kelso, Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany, Nisi Shawl, Trina Robbins, Suzy McKee Charnas, Liz Henry, Rosaleen Love, Carol Emshwiller, Mark Rich, Micole Sudberg, Rachel Swirsky, Laura Quilter, Yoon Ha Lee, Linda Wight, Daintha Day Sprouse, Julie Philips, K. Tempest Bradford, Spike Parsons
L. Timmel Duchamp has assembled a collage of diverse materials to document the thirtieth anniversary of WisCon, which was a grand reunion of most of the convention's previous Guests of Honor. These include the transcript of Samuel R. Delany's interview of Joanna Russ, several essays reflecting on the diverse aspects of the convention, as well as papers presented in the academic track, panel notes and transcripts, an original short story by Rosaleen Love, and Eileen Gunn's snappy series of Q&A with numerous WisCon attendees, among them Ursula K. Le Guin, Julie Phillips, Ted Chiang, Carol Emshwiller, and Suzy McKee Charnas.

* Introduction by L. Timmel Duchamp
* “The WisCon Questions: A Coven of People Who Attended WisCon 30 Answer Random Personal Questions Posed by * Eileen Gunn” (interspersed throughout)
* Q&A--Julie Philips
* “Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke? Paradise Island as a Woman’s Community” by Trina Robbins
* Q&A—Suzy Charnas
* “Welcome Back to the Beginning” by Rachel Swirsky
* “Feminist Think Tanks”—panel transcript notes by Liz Henry
* “A Think Tank Thing for Feminists” by Rosaleen Love
* Q&A: Carol Emshwiller
* Q&A Mark Rich
* Q&A Ellen Klages
* “Lord of the Monsters” by Andrea Hairston
* Q&A Ted Chiang
* Q&A Ursula K. Le Guin
* Q&A Liz Henry
* “The Feminist Romance Panel: Notes” by Micole Sudberg
* “Is Reading Feminist SF a Theory-Building Activity?”—panel transcript notes by Laura Quilter
* Q&A Lisa Tuttle
* “Piercy’s Gendered Cyborgs: Hope, Threats, and Blurred Boundaries” by Linda Wight
* Q&A Diantha Day Sprouse
* “Uncomfortable Politics in Feminist Writing”—panel transcript notes by Laura Quilter
* “The Cultural Appropriation Panel: Notes” by Yoon Ha Lee
* “Researching WisCon Stories: Revisionist History or Re-visioning the Past with the Future in Mind” by Joan Haran
* Q&A K. Tempest Bradford
* Q&A Spike Parsons
* “Who Wants a Revolution? Will a Reform Do?”—panel transcript notes by Liz Henry
* “We Aren’t Civilized Yet: Reflections from the WisCon 30 Panel on Women Warriors” by Nancy Jane Moore
* “‘A Man Is Like A Nut’: Gender and Magic in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Later Earthsea Novels” by Sylvia Kelso
* The Legendary Joanna Russ Interviewed by Samuel R. Delany
* Q&A Jeanne Gomoll
* “A 40 Year-old Con-virgin Goes to WisCon” by Stephen Gold
* “Sympathy and Power: L. Timmel Duchamp Asks Samuel R. Delany a Question”
* “Dry Eyes” by Nisi Shawl
* “No Man’s Land,” an original story by Rosaleen Love

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