05-05-2012, 06:03 AM | #31 |
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05-05-2012, 07:33 AM | #32 |
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ELFWRECK! There's one that I didn't know was a woman!
Maybe we need a separate thread just for a discussion of "are you a woman?" I think Never Let Me Go makes an excellent book club book. We discussed it in an online book club (of women) and it was one of our best discussions. Not everyone liked it, though! eP |
05-05-2012, 09:14 AM | #33 |
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You confirm my suspicions that sci-fi liking women exist. For my part, I know a girl who routinely reads fantasy but will go "ewwww !" as soon as you label something as science fiction. It doesn't matter how light - Philip Dick and Robert Sheckley barely mention any technical details, but she will have none of that ;-).
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05-05-2012, 09:15 AM | #34 |
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05-05-2012, 09:49 AM | #35 |
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05-05-2012, 10:04 AM | #36 |
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Try AC Wilder's Ariel
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05-05-2012, 11:38 AM | #37 | |
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05-05-2012, 12:13 PM | #38 |
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I think that any girl who grew up when Star Trek was in its heyday "likes" science fiction. But it's like sports - we're not necessarily interested in every single stat on every single player of a team we like, so we don't really care about the mass/velocity/time computations that some authors love to include to add veracity, or the loving recreations of the firepower of each and every type of weaponry carried. We're reading the books from the estrogen POV, not the testosterone one.
We tend to take a holistic approach to the story, and look for the links, similarities and differences. We're curious as to the emotions of the characters and to what formed them into the beings they are. We can enjoy a fight as much as the next person, whether it's a space battle or one-on-one combat, but most of us never waged mock battles with squadrons of green army men when we were kids so we tend to look at the participants as individuals and not as mere cogs in the wheel. So endless battles, while entertaining to military historians, can quickly pall. |
05-05-2012, 12:19 PM | #39 |
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I think Xanthe explained very well how many (not all) women feel about science fiction.
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05-05-2012, 03:07 PM | #40 |
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I also recommend Bujold's Shards of Honor and Barrayar.
Others that I think women would like include: Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series Elizabeth Moon's Seranno/Suiza Series Katherine Rusch's Retrieval Artist Series My wife reads a lot of scifi and fantasy, so we have a great shared bookcase! |
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Kea's Flight by John C Ricker and Erika Hammerschmidt. Amazon UK
A whole new take on population and abortion issues, set in a dystopian future not so far from our own. The standpoint from which the book is written is that of a young girl growing up with a perceived disability in a work in which potentially disabled foetuses are grown to birth date in an uterine replicator, then shipped off to a new planet, growing up on the spaceship. Thought provoking, well written, and even witty. Well worth getting. This thread has provoked me to read this book again. Time well spent. More science in this one: Actually three books, set in the Liaden universe Fledgling, Saltation, and Ghost Ship, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. I was possibly influenced by the respect with which pilots are treated by the other characters. Again, a book with a teenage girl as the protagonist. Somewhat YA, but none the worse for that. Baen and elsewhere |
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05-05-2012, 10:45 PM | #44 |
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I know Ursula Le Guin has already been mentioned, but I would like to recommend her also. I don't read a great deal of SF, and I'm certainly not interested in the technology and space battles sort of book.
I think Le Guin is a wonderful writer, and her books are really about relationships and the age-old dilemmas of being human. I'll second "The Left Hand of Darkness" in particular - a great book about understanding the "other". And for a short story, try "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas". |
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