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From: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: female protaganists
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 02:16:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 17 02:16:46 1985
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Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia
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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
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