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<p>Thank you all for contributing to this discussion. Sorry, Wes, if I misunderstood, and thank you Rick for your post respecting concern for accessibility.</p>
<p>Maybe who ever nominates a book should make sure that there are at least a few copies available in THEIR local libraries or library systems.</p>
<p>When it was my turn to nominate books a month or so ago, I made a list of all my favorite sci fi and fantasy books and looked them up in the Minuteman Library Network. Out of about 21 books on my list, only FOUR were in our normally great library network (and if I remember correctly, some of those were out of print now).</p>
<p>Granted, my favorite fantasy books were all by women writers and included specific books by Moyra Caldecott, Sidney Van Scyoc (Darkchild!), Evangeline Walton, Louise Marley (music lovers: read her Singers of Nevya books!), Pamela Sargent and to some extent Sara Roethle (in addition to Ursula Le Guin and Patricia McKillip). And it occurs to me that most of those books were written in the very-male dominated days of science fiction when publishers and award organizations catered to stories and books written by men. So those books - some of which are exceptional - were not reprinted.</p>
<p>(Also, our dear library system - and I'm NOT being sarcastic here because we do have phenomonal library networks in the greater Boston area at least - in this very left-brain academic milieu does NOT favor fantasy books!)</p>
<p><br />Tracy Marks</p>
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<p id="reply-intro">On 2024-11-28 16:42, Rick Kovalcik wrote:<br />_______________________________________________<br />reading-group mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><br /><a href="https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a></p>
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