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 unirot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!pyramid!pyrnj!topaz!unirot!liz From: liz@unirot.UUCP (Mamaliz ) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: feminist sf/fantasy(re: McCaffery) Message-ID: <168@unirot.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 14:51:48 EST Article-I.D.: unirot.168 Posted: Sat Oct 26 14:51:48 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 04:31:30 EST References: <1009@decwrl.UUCP> <544@utflis.UUCP> Reply-To: liz@unirot.UUCP (Mamaliz ) Organization: The Soup Kitchen Lines: 17 In article <544@utflis.UUCP> chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai) writes: >In article <1009@decwrl.UUCP> @amd.UUCP writes: >>Now, if anyone wants a flame session, just for fun, we can cite examples of >>female authors who write lousy female characters: >> >> o Anne McCaffrey--okay, I have to admit to a fondness for Lessa, but >> _Restoree_ was dreadful! I'm being a little mean to pick on one book >> out of many. >> >Hear! Hear! I've often thought of said book as a Harlequin Romance >in an sf setting. McCaffrey wrote Restoree as a spoof. At least that is what she has been saying for a number of years. I think it is a fun spoof, but then, I do not expect everything I read to mirror my politics. lizzy