Canon panel on Magic Casements

[jack_ryder]

Yes, Magic Casements was fun, well organised, great to catch up with people, blah, blah. (and add gillpolack - it's a pity I missed her panel) I did miss the most important part - the dinner afterwards - as murasaki_1966 was sick with a middle ear infection. But as the Canon panel was so uncontroversial, I thought I'd paste the questions I'd buried deep within the comments of chrisbarnes's LJ:

Is David Lindsay's "Voyage to Arcturus" still considered canon even though nobody seems to talk about the book anymore (it often shows up in Important SF lists, but I've heard little about it and don't know anyone who's actually read it)?

And - if the canon is meant to representative of the breadth of SF (i.e. what you need to read to get an understanding of the range of the genre) should it have included Star Wars novels - even those written by Sean Williams?

But here's an obvious question we all kind of missed, expect for a mutual back-slapping session between Terry Dowling and Margo Lanagan:

What Australian authors should be in the canon?

Quick answer - Greg Egan, Terry, possibly A Bertram Chandler - any others?

(I'll leave my Octavia Butler question buried in Chris's comments, it's a little cheeky.)

Comments

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Have you read "Beyond the Labtrinth"?

I have work access so long as no one notices.And BTW, no I leave that till later...