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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Authors' Protagonists
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 01:52:18 EDT
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> > Are there any authors who don't fall into this trap?  Who write about
> > believable protagonists (not just antagonists) who are of either sex?
> 
> 	Anne McCaffrey and Ursula LeGuin (although LeGuin is less fantasy)
> come to mind.  Can't think of any men.  Hmm...

That's true of recent McCaffrey.  Her early stuff was pretty bad on the
women, too. *All* of Le Guin's characters are good.

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