My favorite Tanith Lee story is a Snow White story called “Red as Blood.”
Ever since I first read that, long ago, I’ve been hoping to love other stories of hers, but so far most of her work hasn’t done a lot for me. (There’ve been a couple of others that I liked reasonably well, but nothing else that I’ve loved, not even the other stories in the collection that “Red as Blood” lends its title to.)
My notes on a couple of her stories say two things that I think I often find to be true of her work: “The language here is intermittently lovely” and “there’s some power in this, but it’s also pretty dark.”
Anyway, regardless of my personal tastes, I think their giving her the Infinity is reasonable, given the level of respect that she received over the course of her nearly-fifty-year career. But yeah, I agree that your candidates seem like strong candidates.
Looking at the Grand Master list, it looks to me like they’re intentionally trying to make up for the decades of white men—18 out of the first 19 Grand Masters, from 1975 through 2001, were white men, and 38 out of the total of 40 Grand Masters have been white. So I suspect that they’ll be avoiding giving either the GM or the Infinity to white men for a while yet, but I could be totally wrong about that.
Setting that aside, here are some other possible candidates for GM or Infinity (all of these are white, most of them are also dead and men):
Anthony Boucher, CL Moore, Cordwainer Smith, CS Lewis, Frank Herbert, Henry Kuttner, James Tiptree, John Crowley, JRR Tolkien, Spider Robinson, Vernor Vinge, Zenna Henderson.
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Date: 2024-03-16 07:53 am (UTC)Ever since I first read that, long ago, I’ve been hoping to love other stories of hers, but so far most of her work hasn’t done a lot for me. (There’ve been a couple of others that I liked reasonably well, but nothing else that I’ve loved, not even the other stories in the collection that “Red as Blood” lends its title to.)
My notes on a couple of her stories say two things that I think I often find to be true of her work: “The language here is intermittently lovely” and “there’s some power in this, but it’s also pretty dark.”
Anyway, regardless of my personal tastes, I think their giving her the Infinity is reasonable, given the level of respect that she received over the course of her nearly-fifty-year career. But yeah, I agree that your candidates seem like strong candidates.
Looking at the Grand Master list, it looks to me like they’re intentionally trying to make up for the decades of white men—18 out of the first 19 Grand Masters, from 1975 through 2001, were white men, and 38 out of the total of 40 Grand Masters have been white. So I suspect that they’ll be avoiding giving either the GM or the Infinity to white men for a while yet, but I could be totally wrong about that.
Setting that aside, here are some other possible candidates for GM or Infinity (all of these are white, most of them are also dead and men):
Anthony Boucher, CL Moore, Cordwainer Smith, CS Lewis, Frank Herbert, Henry Kuttner, James Tiptree, John Crowley, JRR Tolkien, Spider Robinson, Vernor Vinge, Zenna Henderson.