The Tanith Lee Fangirl

I left my world to wander in This endless midnight sky,

For space is just a starry night Where no suns ever rise.

Is that Lylas from Tales from the Flat Earth

IT MOST CERTAINLY IS

I have read 56 of her novels and short story collections and I am clawing and scraping to get the rest. There's also her Esther Garber pen name where she wrote even more glorious queer fiction.

A personalized Tanith Lee rec list! I love this idea.

There is a certain subset of Tanith Lee books which are about angry, reckless young women messing with a society which is trying to contain them, and I think those are the ones I would recommend you start with, including but not limited to:

Biting the Sun

Black Unicorn [series]

Wolf Tower [series; also YA]

These don't fit that above criterion but I would recommend them to you specifically for other reasons:

Day By Night

...yeah, we all know.

And the thing that is starting to bother me is how many of these posts are tagged with 'radfem safe' or 'radfems do touch' or the like.

...y'all know Tanith Lee wrote transgender characters that weren't predatory men pretending to be women right?

You know what?

Good.

Maybe some of the lessons Tanith Lee had to teach will get through your ideology and you'll start valuing people instead of hateful rhetoric.

This is a point I overlooked in my initial bafflement. Radical feminism is a mangled, imperfect, and harmful ideology. So terfs, do read Tanith Lee. Read her other work under her pen name of Esther Garber. Read Ursula LeGuin. Read Tamora Pierce and Robin McKinley and Diane Duane. Read Angela Carter and T. Kingfisher and Anne McCaffrey. Read Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison. Read more.

crashes into your house with a complete list of all tanith lee books 

ok so tanith lee is a british writer of mainly science fiction, horror and fantasy and has long been my personal aesthetic goals™ 

having written around 54 novels and 188 short stories, i discovered her stories via a second hand dusty bookstore when i picked up the vampire scifi gothic romanticism in space novel: sabella / alternative title: the blood stone [ yes. you read that right. vampires. in space ] finished it in one sitting and 13 year old me, went. this. this is me. i have found my people. i then went on to find in the same bookstore the novel, the silver metal lover. [ basically robots + the question of love. exploring the concept of what make’s one a sentient being capable of love ] 

there aren’t words enough in the english language to convey just how much this author’s work has influenced my perception of stories and how i create. my inner world was shaped to a large degree by the writing of this amazing human. when she passed on it was a loss to the written word. and yes i’m being that dramatic. her work is that good. 

some completely biased rec’s for you, nonnie – 

- sabella [ the blood stone ] 

- women as demons: the male perception of women through space + time 

- the complete flat earth series

- the blood opera sequence [  be warned this is a dark series. tread lightly ] 

- the silver metal lover // sequel: metallic love [ the s.i.l.v..e.r series ] 

Biting the Sun (a compilation volume of “Don’t Bite the Sun” and “Drinking Sapphire Wine” –a world where genderfluidity is absolutely normal)

The Black Unicorn trilogy (complete with a real “pet peeve”)

The Secret Books of Venus (a reimagined Venice, Italy)

LITERATURE MEME: [10 / 10] prose works  ≽ Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee