I would love to see a truly feminist series about modern-day witches, but alas, this isn’t going to be it.

Sounds delicious!

I’m an archivist, so destroying a document pains me.

As I recall, she grew up middle-class in Tulsa but felt sympathy for the despised greasers. She even had a switchblade knife.

It may or may not have been mentioned on the dust jacket, but in print it was well-known that she was female. She did an interview with Seventeen magazine when the book came out.

Reminds me a certain president’s ex-wife who wanted to get free hair and make-up services for herself and her daughter for the inauguration (to the tune of $300), because “it would give you good exposure”. The salon owners replied “No thanks, we’ve already got exposure.”

Ditto. I had a major crush on Bruce Davison after that. Later I bought a VHS copy when one of our video stores was going out of business. I saw the remake but can’t remember anything about it.

Also “The Left Hand of Darkness” and “The Lathe of Heaven”. Both are very prescient.

When I met my husband, he had “Rocannon’s World” in his hand. An additional point in his favor.

I have always tought of her work as *social* science fiction: some of the science is fictional, her real interest was in creating societies and the interpersonal relationships those societies would produce. For just one example, in “The Lathe of Heaven” when racism is deliberately eliminated, a biracial character…

She smacked him, too. I didn’t know generals could do that!

At a time when women were still struggling to get the medical establishment to stop reacting to childbirth as a medical emergency, I found the birthing scene terribly dispiriting. Blindingly bright lights and robots. Ugh. Your theory is much preferable.

There was even a shirtless scene. Sadly, I could only give it a C+.

I guess he’s right, if he means that “Star Wars” doesn’t feature harems of male and female prostitutes who are offed at the ruler’s whim.

I was interested until you got to the mutilating part. Guess I’ll go back to the cheery romp of “Mr. Robot” Season 2.

The irony is that some straight-edge people - no drugs, smoking, drinking, or meat - would punch others who were smoking or something, which defeats the purpose of being in control of yourself, if you ask me.

It’s not a perfect movie, and the first part is veeerrryyy slooowww; not a few people have walked out, or, presumably, turned it off. Even I thought you could bring your knitting for the first, pre-death scenes. I would recommend seeing it on the big screen if you have the chance.

Spike?

Is THAT what it was? I could never understand the animosity against her.

Good for you! The historical story has captivated me too, ever since my daughter got “Frozen in Time” - great photos. One hardly needs a supernatural element, it’s already pretty supernatural. too bad winter will be mostly over by the time it airs.