[nesfa-reading-group] Davy by Pangborn NOT available in any Massachusetts library

[tracy at windweaver.com]

Thank you all for contributing to this discussion. Sorry, Wes, if I 
misunderstood, and thank you Rick for your post respecting concern for 
accessibility.

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.

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).

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.

(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!)

Tracy Marks

On 2024-11-28 16:42, Rick Kovalcik wrote:
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