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From: eric@osiris.UUCP (Eric Bergan)
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Subject: Re: C.J.Cherryh, Tanith Lee, and other assorted female SF authors...
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Date: Sat, 23-Feb-85 12:15:25 EST
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> How many people out there have read and liked any/all of Cherryh's stuff
> or Tanith Lee's works?  I liked Cherryh's Downbelow Station a lot and much
> of Tanith Lee's wierder stories.  A friend of mine however won't read any
> of that stuff on first principles.  To paraphrase him, "after all, how many
> really good female SF authors do you know?"  I personally think that the
> number is certainly substantial.  I guess a lot of female SF writers though
> are still suffering from prejudices such as this and find that they must hide
> behind names which are patently male or gender non-specific.  Cases in point
> are C.J.Cherryh and Andre Norton.

	I pity your friend, he is missing out on some very good SF. I have
read all of Cherryh's stuff, and much of it is very good (the short stories
in Sunfall, the Kesrith series, Downbelow Station). I am not a fan of Tanith
Lee, but there are other female authors who are also outstanding (Le Guin,
Kate Wilhelm, some of MacCaffrey's work, and some of McIntyre's). As with
anything else, there are good and bad female SF authors (and some that are
uneven).
-- 

					eric
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