Brin stuff
I keep running into various interesting things by and about David Brin online lately:
- An author writes in her LiveJournal about a recent run-in at a convention. (If you know who this author is, please don't use her last name publicly in connection with her journal; yes, it's easy to figure out who she is if you want to, but for good and sufficient reasons having nothing to do with that particular incident, she doesn't want her full name to be directly connected (on any publicly accessible web page) to her journal.)
- In the Tiptree Long List from '93, Le Guin has a long comment about Brin's Glory Season. An interviewer from Holland SF asked Nicola Griffith to comment on that book in an interview (which, unsurprisingly given the subject matter of Glory Season and Ammonite, also has some interesting general comments from Nicola on one of my pet subjects of late, single-sex societies). The interviewer in that interview referred to a 1994 interview with Brin, also conducted by Holland SF, in which Brin talks more about the Tiptree and makes snide remarks about Suzy Charnas's books.
- An interesting piece by Brin on The Phantom Menace, published in Salon in 1999. Apparently it's a sidebar to another article of his about Lucas and morality and elitism in the Star Wars movies. (Some stuff about Trek there that I don't really buy. Klingons are the "only male heroes who are allowed any testosterone"? What about Kirk, Riker, and (later) Archer?) Since I was just on a Space Opera panel last weekend, it occurred to me while reading this that the flip side of the Space Opera idea that one person can make a difference is that only one person (or at least only one of a small set of people) can ever make a difference. The masses don't have much they can do aside from lending succor to the hero or heroine.
- Brin apparently wrote both the introduction and a story in a 1992 anthology called Abortion Stories: Fiction on Fire, edited by Rick Lawler.
Okay, enough. Off to work I go.