Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: re: feminist sf/fantasy Message-ID: <1079@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 06:31:10 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1079 Posted: Sat Oct 26 06:31:10 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Oct-85 03:14:37 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 27 > 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) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA <"Bibliography is my business">