sandramcdonald ([info]sandramcdonald) wrote,
2010-06-01 09:01:00
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Diana Comet Presents...Live on YouTube

Welcome to the world, Diana Comet! Today is your official debut. Thank you to Small Beer Press for selling you at Wiscon, and thanks to all my friends and strangers who bought copies.

To celebrate Diana's birth, here's a 3 minute movie about 117 great women writers, editors and publishers in the field of science fiction and fantasy. We've got ladies in there from the pioneers of the 1930's to the Campbell winners of the 2000's. It's fast, fun and informative (I hope), and it was a lot of fun to put together.





You can also download your own free pdf of
75 Years of Fabulous Women, A Periodic Table and pin it to the wall for inspiration, like mine is.

Please spread the word - the movie and periodic table are meant to be starting points for conversations in our field - conversations about forgotten legends, excellent stories, and gender inequality. Also, I'm open to suggestions for the next version :-) I hope you enjoy this.
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[info]kellysarah

June 1 2010, 14:25:25 UTC 1 year ago

Loved it! Well done.

[info]sandramcdonald

June 1 2010, 14:57:23 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it :-)

[info]charmingbillie

June 1 2010, 15:32:44 UTC 1 year ago

The video is great! What a lot of work. Go you!

[info]sandramcdonald

June 1 2010, 15:40:34 UTC 1 year ago

I'm glad you like it :-) On the bright side, I know a lot more about iMovie than I used to. On the down side, all I see when I close my eyes are little tiny boxes of names...

[info]jennreese

June 1 2010, 15:40:28 UTC 1 year ago

Hugely impressive and well done. WOW!!!

[info]sandramcdonald

June 1 2010, 15:44:23 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks! I had fun making it. And learned a lot.

[info]vamysteryfan

June 1 2010, 16:11:01 UTC 1 year ago

Loved it - both the table and the video. I was pleased to see how many of the authors I've read and happy to see a few new ones I can go look for :)

[info]sandramcdonald

June 1 2010, 19:42:33 UTC 1 year ago

I know I learned a lot making it about authors I'd only heard a little about. Now I carry the chart with me to bookstores :-)

[info]vamysteryfan

June 2 2010, 02:20:02 UTC 1 year ago

I hope you don't mind - I shared your link on my LJ and with some sisters. It's so share-worthy!

[info]tabby333

June 1 2010, 16:11:16 UTC 1 year ago

I still love it!

[info]sandramcdonald

June 1 2010, 19:42:50 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks! I had fun making it :-)

[info]jordanwillow

June 1 2010, 23:17:48 UTC 1 year ago

omg that was SO CUTE. thanks for doing all that work -- well done!

[info]sandramcdonald

June 2 2010, 12:08:01 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks! I had fun. And now I have carpal tunnel. Er, I mean, I had fun :-)

Anonymous

June 2 2010, 03:48:13 UTC 1 year ago

Absolutely fantastic. Bravo!

Absolutely fantastic. Bravo!

John D.
SF Signal

[info]sandramcdonald

June 2 2010, 12:07:42 UTC 1 year ago

Re: Absolutely fantastic. Bravo!

Thanks, John! I'm glad you like it.

[info]destina

June 2 2010, 06:49:35 UTC 1 year ago

Sheer genius. Dude, that video is fully awesome. I bow before you. :D

[info]sandramcdonald

June 2 2010, 12:07:27 UTC 1 year ago

Oh, you are are too nice :-) Thank you!

[info]benrosenbaum

June 2 2010, 11:28:04 UTC 1 year ago

Is there an ordering to the table?

[info]benrosenbaum

June 2 2010, 11:28:57 UTC 1 year ago

By which I mean, it's not in chronological or alphabetical order, nor by atomic weight :-), how did you decide who goes where?

[info]sandramcdonald

June 2 2010, 12:07:09 UTC 1 year ago

Yes, definitely an order. Top to bottom, left to right, by order of first publication. Approximately. Some people didn't have complete bibliographies online or had other achievements. So you'll see Andre Norton and C.L. Moore starting in the 1930's, moving right to end at the writers of the 90's and 00's.

[info]benrosenbaum

June 2 2010, 12:58:58 UTC 1 year ago

Aha! What threw me is that you are going vertically first, then horizontally, while atomic weight in the chemical periodic table goes horizontally first and then vertically!

[info]sandramcdonald

June 2 2010, 13:07:03 UTC 1 year ago

That might have worked better! I was trying to do a continuum of left to right by decade, but it's still approximate.

Hmm. Now I want to play around with my Fireworks file...no! Must stop!

[info]kaz_mahoney

June 5 2010, 21:21:24 UTC 1 year ago

First of all, I truly think this is awesome and I can't believe how much work you've put into it. O.o Um... seriously, it's so cool! :)

Secondly, I have a "suggestion for the next version". I'm sure you can't possibly pelase everyone, but I was surprised not to see Tricia Sullivan in there. She's published six critically acclaimed SF novels, and between them those books have garnered multiple BSFA, British Fantasy Society, John W. Campbell, and multiple Clarke nominations (which she actually won for Dreaming in Smoke. Oh! And she has also made the Tiptree shortlist.

Tricia is the Real Deal when it comes to Fabulous Female SF authors. :)

*runs off to pet her Tricia Sullivan books*

[info]muse_books

June 6 2010, 16:16:56 UTC 1 year ago

I was pleased to find you had a LJ and have added you so I can read more about your work.

I love the periodic table though it seems to have mutated into a meme without context (I've tried to correct that and post links to the original).

I'm interested in learning more about how you came to create it, so will read back over your entries.

[info]firecat

June 14 2010, 05:31:21 UTC 1 year ago

I love the periodic table though it seems to have mutated into a meme without context (I've tried to correct that and post links to the original).

Ditto. (The meme is also being discussed on alt.polyamory on Usenet/Google Groups.)

http://firecat.dreamwidth.org/677593.html
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