{"id":2036,"date":"2010-11-26T21:13:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T04:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2010-11-29T17:24:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T00:24:13","slug":"still-chasing-margaret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2036","title":{"rendered":"Still “Chasing Margaret”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago, during my research leading up to the writing of Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America<\/em><\/a>, I went through a period of fascination with science-fiction\/fantasy writer Margaret St. Clair<\/a> (1911-1995), seeking her books on the SF shelves of used bookstores in various cities.<\/p>\n

She and her husband, Eric,\u00a0 were perhaps the first Gardnerian Witches on the West Coast, having flown East to be initiated by Ray and Rosemary Buckland <\/a>in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n

This blog’s first incarnation was a column in various Pagan magazines, and one of those columns was called “Chasing Margaret”<\/a>, being my attempt to restore her memory and literary reputation in SF.<\/p>\n

Blogger Tim Mayer has kept up the chase for her forgotten works and blogged about several of them at Z-7’s Headquarters<\/em>. Here is a partial list:<\/p>\n

Three Worlds of Futurity<\/em> (1964)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Message from the Eocene <\/a><\/em>(1964)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dancers of Noyo<\/em> (1973)<\/a> This novel is not only prescient, but it still gets under my skin, although the geography did not become real until I visited the Mendocino coast.<\/p>\n

The Games of Neith<\/em> (1960). <\/a><\/p>\n

Change the Sky and Other Stories<\/em> (1974).<\/a><\/p>\n

The best of the lost has to be “The Goddess on the Street Corner”. It’s a sad tale which would have fitted into The Twilight Zone. The story concerns an alcoholic pensioner who finds an ancient Greek goddess on a city street. He takes her home and feeds her bourbon, hoping to restore the deity’s powers. The story has a bitter sweet ending, which was not entirely expected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would like to find that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Years ago, during my research leading up to the writing of Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America, I went through a period of fascination with science-fiction\/fantasy writer Margaret St. Clair (1911-1995), seeking her books on the SF shelves of used bookstores in various cities. She and her husband, Eric,\u00a0 were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,12],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-wQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12320,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12320","url_meta":{"origin":2036,"position":0},"title":"“Why Women Need the Goddess:” The Passing of Carol Christ","author":"Chas S. 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