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I wrote quite a long account of Vandermeer's Southern Reach Trilogy for Strange Horizons. Over on Twitter a couple of people have responded to the review by quite rightly deprecating my only-male list of 'strange pastoral' texts: that was feeble of me, no question. Johanna Sinisalo's Birdbrain and Nina Allen's The Race were mentioned. Sadly I have not (yet) read either. Clearly I need to do more work before any conclusions about the masculinist bias of strange pastoral itself can be mooted.
I've now read THE RACE, which is an exceptionally good novel. But it's a stretch to read it as 'strange pastoral', I think.
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