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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/12/2023 08:28, bill w wrote:<br>
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style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Currently reading 'The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet' by Becky Chambers.</div><div
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style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I have read several sci-fi books by female authors - Ann Leckie for one.
It is detectable that the author is female, but not that obvious.
Chambers is blatantly obvious; writing about emotions and relationships
far beyond any other sci-fi author I know. (except for Yarrow - see
below)</div><div class="gmail_default"
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style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">This book is the first of a trilogy that won the Hugo for best series. They
could have easily been re-written, taking out all the sci-fi tech and
aliens. I do enjoy it this way, though.</div><div class="gmail_default"
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style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Another:
'Fourth Wing' by Rebecca Yarrows - a totally smash hit, as is the
sequel 'Iron Flame'. More of a fantasy since the tech is about equal to
our 18th century stuff, and there are lots of dragons and magic. (and
lots of sex and jealousies - the two main characters are about 20 years
old and it shows)</div><div class="gmail_default"
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style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">It also could have been written without those, just focusing on the emotions and relationships. But again, I do enjoy it as is.</div><div
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style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Too bad we did not have more female writers from the beginning. Just a few.</div></pre>
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Try Linda Nagata for a rare example of a female that can write
convincing sf. It was her depiction of an uploaded spaceship pilot
that set me off down the road of thinking deeply about the old 'is a
copy of you really you?' question, and to conclude that it has to
be, despite some unintuitive side-effects.<br>
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Justina Robson is also quite good, but tends more towards fantasy in
her later works. Her first novel, "Silver Screen" was promising, but
ultimately fizzled out and I found it disappointing at the end. A
sequel might have been able to rescue it, but one never appeared.
I'm currently reading "Natural History", which is showing more
promise. Her later "Quantum Gravity" books are good fantasy, which I
can recommend, but I wouldn't call them sf.<br>
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Ben<br>
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