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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: feminist sf/fantasy
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Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 06:31:10 EST
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> From:	dec-miles!chabot	(Lisa Chabot)
 
> ...just for fun, we can cite examples of
> female authors who write lousy female characters:
>
>  o Swooning females can be found in great abundance in romance novels, such
>    as those marketed by Harlequin (admittedly, most of this stuff is probably
>    not science fiction or what we like to call fantasy--at least, I'm guessing
>    because you don't think I'm going to read them all!  :-) ); many of these
>    are written by women

I almost hate to tell you this, Lisa, but there is *one*
Harlequin romance that is fantasy ("our" kind of fantasy):
THE FLOWER OF ETERNITY by Margery Hamilton. It's a "lost
race" fantasy. If you want to read it [:-)], I have a copy.

[No, I haven't read it; I found out about it from a friend
for whom bibliography is as much a business as for me.]

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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