This coming Tuesday, February 7 will be a "Thieves' Night" ("what can we
steal from [William Gibson / Catherine Moore / insert name here...")
discussion of two powerful stories: "The Winter
Market"<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter_Market> by
William Gibson, and "No Woman
Born"<http://variety-sf.blogspot.com/2008/06/c-l-moore-no-woman-born-novella-science.html>
by
Catherine Moore. Craig deLancey & Eric Scoles will facilitate.The stories explore different aspects of the traditional SF questions about the nature and extent of humanity. In Gibson's story, a woman ravaged by congenital disease and drug abuse yearns for a chance to transcend her flesh. Moore's protagonist is a brilliant stage actress whose body is destroyed by fire and replaced with a marvellous metallic cyborg body, to which she somehow brings the illusion of human affect. Both stories are approached from the perspectives of men who admire them, and both have inspired a wide range of scholarly, critical response. "The Winter Market" is a typically well-crafted early Gibson work, but like most of his work also functioning as a powerful narrative experiment. "No Woman Born" betrays some of the typical excesses of its time, but is arguably as thematically challenging as Gibson's work. Where to find them: "The Winter Market" is anthologized in *Burning Chrome<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060539828/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=feral05-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0060539828> *, which collects most of Gibson's short work and readily available at most decent bookstores and libraries and in many used book stores. (I recommend checking Rick's Recycled <http://rocwiki.org/Rick's_Recycled_Books> on Monroe.) You may also be able to find copy online.<http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/burning_chrome.shtml#market> "No Woman Born" is widely anthologized, but probably most readily available in print as part of *The Best of C. L. Moore<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345247523/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=feral05-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0345247523> *. Again, you may also find it online<http://hell.pl/agnus/anglistyka/2211/C.%20L.%20Moore%20-%20No%20Woman%20Born.pdf> . -- -- eric scoles | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
