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From: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
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Subject: Re: reading material
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 19:31:57 EDT
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I sent mail to the original author suggesting the magazine
"Mother Jones", but if the field has widened to include
books...

I'm afraid my taste runs mostly to science fiction, and
if a novel is *novel* in some way, I consider it worth
reading.  C. J. Cherryh's works definitely satisfy this
criterion, and I recommend her works.  She grinds no
overt axes but gives many eye-opening alternatives for
alien and human societies.

An author with an axe to grind seems to be , who wrote a trilogy beginning with _The_
_Northern_Girl_.  I read all three of those books, and
although they purport to describe a more enlightened and
mature attitude toward sexuality, there is NOT ONE
major heterosexual character among the three novels.

In the non-fiction arena, I just read Gloria Steinem's
_Outrageous_Acts_and_Everyday_Rebellions_.  Has anyone
else read that, and would they like to discuss it, via
mail or out in front of everyone?

(BTW, did anyone here that before "James Tiptree, Jr."
was discovered to be female, that MCP Robert Silverburg
insisted vehemently that "he" must be male because of
the male outlook or some such in "his" writing?  Chortle!)
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