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firstname: Candas Jane
lastname: Dorsey
booktitle: Black Wine
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date: 
publisher: Tor
year: 1997
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<p><cite>Black Wine</cite> is a slippery book, neither science fiction nor fantasy; instead it stakes out territory all its own. It is an intricate, fierce and lyrical examination of gender and identity. Teeming with ideas made flesh, <cite>Black Wine</cite> gazes unflinching at the wonder and horror of humanity. [JPK]</p>

<p>In <cite>Black Wine</cite>, Candas Dorsey took on the whole question of gender, shook it out till it suited her, cut, stitched, and fitted till she came up with a wondrous garment I had never seen before. Then she showed me it was reversible and just as wondrous on the inside, which was now the outside. This is a book well worth reading and I hope lots and lots of people do. [TG]</p>
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storytitle: Travels With The Snow Queen
firstname: Kelly
lastname: Link
booktitle: 
periodical: Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Winter, v#1 issue#1
date: 
publisher: 
year: 
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<p>This is a story that puts its arm around the reader and leads him back to places he's been but hasn't really seen. A clever, often funny, conflation of deconstructed fairy tales with a modern relationship going sour, it's about a young woman's journey through gender stereotypes to self-acceptance. Link makes us understand that, in this story, the traditional "happy ending" would be very silly indeed. [JPK]</p>