One of these days, I'm going to write a story set in a world which has (relatively) advanced technology without having metalworking.
One element of this story is going to be that characters will have "Indian names" (i.e., names which are nouns, verbs and/or adjectives), but names which could pass as "normal" names: Rose Winter, Joy Gold, Amber White, &c.
I have plenty of family names: Smith, Short, Black, Hammer, Harewood, Silver, Miller, Bear, Young, Pine, Potter, Hill, Broadacre, Door, Bale, Pond, Roundtree, Burden, Ransom, Snow, Fish, Hightower, Grass, Linden, &c.
I have plenty of female names: Tulip, Felicity, Holly, Ruby, Hope, Rose, Columbine, Melody&c.
But I'm having trouble with male names: Flint, Walker, Mark, Blue, Spade, Hunter, Stoney, Gray, Rice, Weaver, Oak, Robin, Cooper, Goodman, Cutter.... That's about all I could come up with.
Anybody have any suggestions, especially of male names?
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Ball, Black, Pool, Fortune . . . ?"\\
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Tuesday, December 01, 2015
Feminist Graphic Novels
I'm writing to say that Kathe and I have both finished Bitch Planet Volume 1, and will be returning it tomorrow.
In the meantime, I must tell you that neither Kathe nor I liked it very much. We agreed that it covered ground better tilled by novels like The Handmaid's Tale* and Native Tongues**.
Kathe asked me to come up with a list of better feminist graphic novels, especially ones which depicted a horrific patriarchal dystopia. I couldn't find that exact thing (unless you would count the Sid Jacobson/Ernie Colon adaptation of the diary of Anne Frank: http://www.amightygirl.com/anne-frank-graphic-novel
or Marzi:
or Lili Renee:
or maybe Rosa Parks:
and there's a case to be made for The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/888169.Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_Fire), but here are some graphic novels that have come recommended by various people. Some I have read, some I have not, some which the GNBC has read:
Ody-C tries a different approach to undermining patriarchy, reversing the genders in one of the most influential patriarchalist documents, The Odyssey (which some have claimed was written by a woman):
-- John M. Burt
(BTW: A graphic novel of THT is coming soon: http://groupthink.kinja.com/the-handmaids-tale-graphic-novel-1630506060).
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