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BLOODHAG LYRICS
"Gorgeous Ladies Of Writing" (2000 Single)
1. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
2. Andre Norton
3. Ursula K. LeGuin
4. Marion Zimmer Bradley
5. Joanna Russ
6. James Tiptree Jr.
1. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It's the name of the man not the monster
The start of it all, started small in her subconscious
You were a genius and boy was your dad pissed
You went against his wish
married Percy Bysshe
Percy's first wife comitted suicide
At the thought that you'd be his new bride
Yuo were obsessed with life and death
Three dead children
No baby at your breast
Disowed by your father but when the money ran out
Guess who he bothered
Only took one book
To fill us all with fear
And make a new form of writing appear
2. Andre Norton
Her bibliography is immense
Even her books for adolescents are intense
She writes clean-cut and optimistic
But for someone born in 1912
She was totally with it
The Witch World series began Horn Crown
The World of Estcarp put the girls in power
Pressed the point to pontificate how
To keep the technocrats out
I had a hunch you were all woman
Even though you name's Andre
From Victory On Janus all the way to Forerunner Foray
I've read Andre since a child and until my dying day
Bury me with one to read
While I turn to powder in the bottom of my grave
I'll be spinning my bones to powder
In the bottom of my grave
Her work voluminous
Output continuous
3. Ursula K. LeGuin
She spoke of the dichotomy
'twixt nature and technology
Her hainish stories began
and ambitious chronology
Some authors should teach a course
On deviant psychology
Her course would be
Cultural anthropology
The Dispossessed is a masterpiece
of anarcho-syndacalism
The Left Hand of Darkness held
Gender analysis and assured feminism
You were always coming home
to all aspects of utopianism
Will earth survive
To justify your optimism?
Ooh Ah Ursula!
4. Marion Zimmer Bradley
Who would've thought you'd carve out a place
Writing run-of-the-mill adventures of Ace?
Like Seven from the Stars and The Door Through Space
Darkover and over and over
You pick up the pen Marion or a friend
Darkover's colonists were once human
Developed psionics is the interim
To retell Brittian's mythic origin
Masculine to Feminine L'Femme D'Morgan
Darkover and over and over and over again!
5. Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ wrote the Female Man, she...
The greatest feminist science fiction ever written
Now she teaches class at the U-dub in spring
Joanna Russ, my science fiction queen!
Her protagonists are tough not gamine
Like Picnic in Paradise and Alyx
We who are about to salute you Miss Russ
You awaken the soul in all of us!
And Chaos Died!
The Two of Them!
Extra-ordinary People!
On Strike Against God!
Her non-fiction is compelling and frightening
You better fucking read
How To Suppress Women's Writing!
I heard she lived in Ballard
My science fiction queen!
6. James Tiptree Jr.
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