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 caip.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!caip!QUINT From: QUINT@RED.RUTGERS.EDU Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: feminist authors Message-ID: <193@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 00:25:39 EDT Article-I.D.: caip.193 Posted: Thu Oct 24 00:25:39 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 05:06:47 EDT Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 36 From: Anne Marie Quint {/amqueue}Date: 16 Oct 85 13:15:17 PDT (Wednesday) From: Caro.PA@Xerox.ARPA Subject: Re: feminist sf/fantasy Here are my favorites: * The Screwfly Solution, James Tiptree Jr. For a man, Tiptree sure writes strong female characters well. I also enjoy the upbeat endings that his novels always have. * Witch World, etc., by Andre Norton Another male writer who espouses feminist views. His female characters are also very well written. Im sure you will hear this from many others, but both James Tiptree and Andre Norton are female. James Tiptree has written under other names, notably Raccoona Sheldon. I believe her last name is Sheldon, but I dont remember more than that. I dont know if Andre Norton's real name has ever been publicized. Others have suggested that John Norman's Gor series treat women in a radically different way than most other authors, but I haven't had a chance to read any of those books. The gor series does indeed treat women in a radically different way... but not in a good sense. Very few other authors have females who enjoy slavery to a strong virile male and think it the normal, natural, *fulfilling* thing to do. Then again, of course the male is strong and virile... how could he be otherwise? he is male... bletch barf puke /amqueue -------