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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
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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