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Originally Posted by pegasi&prefects
I am not a huge Honor Harrington fan, I'm afraid.
I did use to read Women's Press SF books thanks to the local Women's Studies Resource Centre. But I maintain that there is more diversity out there than before, and far more accessibly, which is exactly why Day and his minions are shrieking about the sky falling and SF being killed by women and people of colour.
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There is more diversity out there--in every genre and some of that is technology. Some of that is gains made by diversity.
Ursula Le Guin
Octavia Butler
(I would have listed Andre Norton, but she's mostly fantasy so I left her out earlier. I loved her books when I was growing up). I left off Mercedes Lackey and Holly Lisle for the same reason.
And here's a list with some more:
http://flavorwire.com/302318/the-gre...rs-of-all-time
Lest we forget some of those who led the way.
It is true that many men won't read books written by women. It is also true that MANY of the women in my cozy group will NOT read books written by men. "They have tried." They are always "surprised" when they read a good cozy book and then find out it's written by a man. There are a couple of male authors I discovered recently who use initials--to keep the fact that they are men writing cozies a little more subtle.