Comments on: Nebula Awards Guest Post: Sex, Skin and Secret Messages http://www.sfwa.org/2010/12/nebula-awards-guest-post-sex-skin-and-secret-messages/ Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Tue, 14 May 2013 14:54:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Steve Davidson http://www.sfwa.org/2010/12/nebula-awards-guest-post-sex-skin-and-secret-messages/#comment-31675 Steve Davidson Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:57:32 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=11692#comment-31675 Nice summary with what I think is one glaring omission; Del Rey’s Helen O’Loy and Sturgeon were mentioned, but Phil Farmer’s The Lovers was entirely overlooked.

That story is far more indicative of your theme than either SF author’s works that you mentioned, as it is written in a mythic, fairy-tale like manner to deliberately enhance the influence of its origins.

]]> By: A Speculative Linkdump | Cora Buhlert http://www.sfwa.org/2010/12/nebula-awards-guest-post-sex-skin-and-secret-messages/#comment-31592 A Speculative Linkdump | Cora Buhlert Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:21:23 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=11692#comment-31592 [...] Sheila Finch has a great post on fairytales, sexual taboos and animal shifters at the SFWA blog. Much food for thought there, also with regards to the PhD. [...]

]]> By: Moira http://www.sfwa.org/2010/12/nebula-awards-guest-post-sex-skin-and-secret-messages/#comment-31566 Moira Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:15:01 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=11692#comment-31566 Women Who Run with the Wolves also talks about traditional fairy tales in terms of Jungian psychology & individuation. Well worth a look!

]]> By: Gene Lempp http://www.sfwa.org/2010/12/nebula-awards-guest-post-sex-skin-and-secret-messages/#comment-31548 Gene Lempp Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:28:34 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=11692#comment-31548 An excellent article, with one discrepancy. It was Joseph Campbell, not Carl Gustav Jung, that authored “A Hero with a Thousand Faces”, first circa 1949.

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