Susan Wood (science fiction)

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Susan Wood (science fiction)

Susan Joan Wood (August 22, 1948-November 12, 1980 was a Canadian

Canada

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author

Author

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, critic

Literary criticism

Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals....
, and science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
fan

Science fiction fandom

Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community of people actively interested in science fiction and fantasy literature, and in contact with one another based upon that interest....
, born in Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the Capital of Canada. The city has population of 812,000, the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population municipality in the country and second largest in Ontario....
, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
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Wood discovered science fiction fandom while she was studying at Carleton University

Carleton University

Carleton University is an international, comprehensive university located in Canada's capital of Ottawa, Ontario. Founded as a small college in 1942, Carleton now offers over 65 programs in a diverse range of disciplines, including public affairs, Carleton School of Journalism,film studies, engineering, high technology, and international stud...
in the 1960s. Wood met fellow fan Mike Glicksohn of Toronto

Toronto

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at Boskone

Boskone

This article is about the fictional organization in E.E. Smith's Lensman series. For the yearly BOSKONE science fiction convention, see Boskone ....
IV in 1969. Wood and Glicksohn married in 1970 (she subsequently sometimes published as Susan Wood Glicksohn), and they published the fanzine

Science fiction fanzine

A science fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day....
Energumen together until 1973.

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Susan Joan Wood (August 22, 1948-November 12, 1980 was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
author

Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
, critic

Literary criticism

Science fiction

Science fiction fandom

Ottawa

Ontario

Carleton University

Toronto

Boskone

Science fiction fanzine

A science fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day....
Energumen together until 1973. Energumen won the 1973 Hugo for Best Fanzine

Hugo Award for Best Fanzine

The Hugo Award for Best science fiction fanzine is given annually to fanzines. These are amateur magazines for science fiction/fantasy-related subject, which do not pay their contributors....
. Wood and Glicksohn were co-guests of honor

Science fiction convention

Science fiction conventions are gatherings of the community of fans of various forms of speculative fiction including science fiction and fantasy....
at the 1975 World Science Fiction Convention. Wood published a great deal of trenchant criticism of the field, both in fanzines and in more formal venues. She received three Hugo Awards for Best Fan Writer

Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

The Hugo Awards, the most prestigious awards in science fiction fandom, are given every year for speculative fiction, and related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation, of the previous year, by members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention ....
, in 1974, 1977, and 1981. In 1976 she was instrumental in organizing the first feminist panel at a science fiction convention

Science fiction convention

Science fiction conventions are gatherings of the community of fans of various forms of speculative fiction including science fiction and fantasy....
, at MidAmericon. The reaction to this helped lead to the founding of A Women's APA

Amateur press association

An Amateur Press Association or APA is a group of people who produce individual pages or magazines that are sent to a Central Mailer for collation and distribution to all members of the group....
and of WisCon

WisCon

WisCon, the Wisconsin Science Fiction Convention, is generally acknowledged as the world's leading feminist science fiction-oriented science fiction convention and conference....
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Wood earned a B.A. (1969) and an M.A. (1970) from Carleton University

Carleton University

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public university research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated a mile north of the city's Financial District, Toronto on grounds that surround Queen's Park ....
. She joined the English Department at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a Canada Public university research university with campuses in Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia....
in 1975 and taught Canadian literature

Canadian literature

Criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes. Critics against such thematic criticism in Canadian literature, such as Frank Davey, have argued that a focus on theme diminishes the appreciation of complexity of the literature produced in the country, and creates the impression that Canadian literature is so...
, science fiction and children's literature

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve and is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes exclude young-adult fiction, comic books, or other genres....
. She was the Vancouver editor of the Pacific Northwest Review of Books (Jan.-Oct. 1978) and also edited the special science fiction/fantasy issue of Room of One's Own
Room of One's Own

Room magazine is a Canada quarterly literary journal founded to showcase the work of established and emerging Canadian women writers and visual artists....
. She wrote numerous articles and book reviews that were published in books and academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research....
s, while continuing to write for fanzines.

Further research

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Some of Wood's papers are available in the library of the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a Canada Public university research university with campuses in Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia....
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