it has been about 8 whole years since I started reading and digitally collecting scifi, and specifically only scifi that had been written by women. Wow. what happened was I used to not care about science fiction very much. then I learned that one of my favourite albums is actually named after a science fiction short story written by a woman named Alice Sheldon in 1973 called Love is the Plan the Plan is Death. So I read it and the rest of the stories in the anthology it came in and it was the most bizarre, confronting, confusing thing I'd ever read at the time. and it was so immediately and intensely lifechanging that not only did I straightaway go about reading everything else Alice Sheldon (who I would come to realise was the most interesting person ever to have lived) had written but also started investigating her contemporaneous authors who were popping up in the same conversations. So after I read Alice Sheldon I read Joanna Russ and then Ursula Le Guin and before too long I realised that it'd been ages since I'd read anything that wasn't science fiction written by female authors. there wasn't really any decision or choice involved, there was just a sense this was something I'd be spending the rest of my life doing. and sure enough eight years later I am still doing that, and I have never run out of things that I'm excited to read. I will confess that I never get tired of how confused and agitated male science fiction fans can get when they learn that I deliberately avoid and ignore male science fiction authors. I have learned a lot about how to find the kind of books I want to find with methods that don't involve relying on search engines, and also just about what it means to maintain a personal digital library about an area that I have an intense interest in. Alice Sheldon is still my favourite author ever
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