First of all, I felt a little bit guilty after writing this that you had been posting about having had an excruciating day and I immediately leapt in with a discussion of my novel!
I would much rather think about your novel than my pain, so please don't apologize!
So I want to say that I have been thinking of you and I hope that you're able to find more diverting things to do with your brain.
Thank you.
I've read a couple of stories from Wandering Stars, the ones that are available online, and had been wondering whether to buy the whole collection. Or maybe just some Phyllis Gotlieb!
Both anthologies of Wandering Stars are worth checking out just for the overview of Jewish speculative fiction at the time; Rachel Swirsky and Sean Wallace's People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy (2010) would give you a more recent cross-section and I don't say that just because I have a story reprinted in it. (I didn't italicize all the Hebrew and Yiddish; that's house style. It's preferredly less othering in my own collection.) I tend to feel that Phyllis Gotlieb is always a good choice no matter what. I'd start with either of the collections or the novel A Judgment of Dragons (1980). Her last novel Birthstones (2007) is also crunchy about gender in a way I enjoy, where focusing a narrative on a planet's reproductive crisis does not automatically make everyone straight.
Yes, it's a bit of a lazy trope but it allows me to play with the questions of the nature of the link and do a bit more about diaspora, both of which are major themes of the novel.
Unless it's a very small colony to begin with, I'm just worrying about their Jewish community!
I did wonder whether a minyan counts the number of Jewish bodies or number of Jewish souls (in which case there are still not enough) but perhaps it's justifiable.
It goes by souls: we've ended up discussing upthread why it is that zombies don't count in a minyan. Agency and intent are essential.
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I would much rather think about your novel than my pain, so please don't apologize!
So I want to say that I have been thinking of you and I hope that you're able to find more diverting things to do with your brain.
Thank you.
I've read a couple of stories from Wandering Stars, the ones that are available online, and had been wondering whether to buy the whole collection. Or maybe just some Phyllis Gotlieb!
Both anthologies of Wandering Stars are worth checking out just for the overview of Jewish speculative fiction at the time; Rachel Swirsky and Sean Wallace's People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy (2010) would give you a more recent cross-section and I don't say that just because I have a story reprinted in it. (I didn't italicize all the Hebrew and Yiddish; that's house style. It's preferredly less othering in my own collection.) I tend to feel that Phyllis Gotlieb is always a good choice no matter what. I'd start with either of the collections or the novel A Judgment of Dragons (1980). Her last novel Birthstones (2007) is also crunchy about gender in a way I enjoy, where focusing a narrative on a planet's reproductive crisis does not automatically make everyone straight.
Yes, it's a bit of a lazy trope but it allows me to play with the questions of the nature of the link and do a bit more about diaspora, both of which are major themes of the novel.
Unless it's a very small colony to begin with, I'm just worrying about their Jewish community!
I did wonder whether a minyan counts the number of Jewish bodies or number of Jewish souls (in which case there are still not enough) but perhaps it's justifiable.
It goes by souls: we've ended up discussing upthread why it is that zombies don't count in a minyan. Agency and intent are essential.