Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usceast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted From: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: female protaganists Message-ID: <2148@usceast.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 02:16:46 EST Article-I.D.: usceast.2148 Posted: Thu Jan 17 02:16:46 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 00:41:10 EST References: <276@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: ted@usceast.UUCP (System Programmer) Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia Lines: 23 Summary: To my mind, the best female fantasy character is Tiana of Reme, highrider,pirateand heroine of an S&S trilogy by Andrew J. Offut and Richard Lyon. The last book of the three , _Web of the Spider_ is an extraodinary book, much better than the other two and I heartily reccommend it. There are some images in that one that have really stuck with me (the hungry apples, the scene depicted in the Rowena cover , the Owner, and Caranga watching a world too real to be bourne as absolute good and absolute evil play for his world, knowing a victory for either will doom humanity). If you ever had any urge to read S&S with a female protagonist, get this book. BTW, also get Jo Clayton's Moon books (esp _Moonscatter_). Altys of her Diadem books isn't bad either. Ted Nolan ..usceast!ted -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Nolan ...decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted 6536 Brookside Circle ...akgua!usceast!ted Columbia, SC 29206 ("Deep space is my dwelling place, the stars my destination") -------------------------------------------------------------------------------