Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site busch.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!busch!mte From: mte@busch.UUCP (Moshe Eliovson) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.books Subject: Re: Tepper/McKillip/women_authors/reposting_of_mutilated_article Message-ID: <479@busch.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 14:11:33 EDT Article-I.D.: busch.479 Posted: Fri Aug 9 14:11:33 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 01:30:46 EDT References: <309@cbuxc.UUCP> Organization: Anheuser-Busch Companies - St. Louis Missouri Lines: 70 Xref: linus net.sf-lovers:8286 net.books:2044 Summary: Sorry, gotta flame In article <309@cbuxc.UUCP>, dim@cbuxc.UUCP (Dennis McKiernan) writes: > _________________________________________________ > > Sheri Tepper has a wonderful gift: > with a few sketches of her authorial pen > she draws an entire culture/civilization. > The world of the *True Game* is drawn so. Ok, so far. > And I cannot but admire her "chasm" > civilization that Mavin visited in > book 2 of the Mavin Manyshaped saga. > God! Bridgers, Maintainers, etc.; > giant roots reaching down past > the Lost Bridge, all the way to the > bottom; cutting roots on each side > just the right length to reach one another > and be grafted together to form a span; > she has a wonderful imagination! FLAME ON: As far as I know, this is very similar to them common Ant Farm or Bee's nest. For all we know, it could be! (Think about it...) FLAME OFF. Now, it was decent description and the mystery of the fallen level was cool, but the goo-goo ga-ga stuff was really carried away. > > In recent discussions on the net, > several have pointed out that many > of their favorite authors are women. > Risking being called a male chauvanist, > I believe that women *in general* are better at > describing/understanding the internals > of a character, and of showing character growth, > whereas men are better at detailing action > and describing how-things-work. My main complaint about some women authors is that they sometimes get carried away with a particular notion: Example 1) Marion Zimmer Bradley who is perhaps the greatest FEMALE chauvanist I have ever read! (Although I did like a few of her books and Darkover collections). Example 2)) I love magic. MacAvoy describes witchery unbelieveably well in Damiano. But then she makes him mundane, and then Raphael too?! In the Book of Kells she gets this great time/dimension door idea with the cross, but that's it. I asked her at an SF convention why she strays away from the magic, and her reply was that basically, she has a zen kind of approach and considers man alone, without magic and powers, to be enough of a topic. Unfortunately, sf & fantasy in my opinion deal in out of the norm. power so I have ceased to read her works, although I will grab the sequel to Tea when it comes out. Moshe Eliovson {allegra, ihnp4}!we53!busch!mte