Sherwood Smith hardly needs introduction. Her novels—for young readers and adults alike—have been appearing in print since 1990. She’s co-written space opera with Dave Trowbridge, collaborated with Andre Norton in Norton’s Solar Queen and Time Trader series, written in Frank L. Baum’s Oz, as well as Ruritanian adventures and epic fantasy, the most recent of which is Banner of the Damned. She also belongs to the Book View Café publishing co-op.
She’s graciously agreed to answer a few questions for this column. I think it’d be a tad uncivil to preface the conversation with a critical discussion of her work. Perhaps we shall have one later, when it’ll seem less ungracious? (Do you want a critical discussion, Gentle Readers?)
But in the meanwhile, fair or foul reader (but where’s the difference?), let’s get to the interesting bits!
[“I think enough phosphors have been spilled about lists of great female authors to counteract these other lists of ‘The Greatest Works of SF of the 20th Century’ that contain all male names.”]