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From: EVAN@SU-CSLI.ARPA
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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #409
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 12:09:09 EDT
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From: Evan Kirshenbaum <evan@SU-CSLI.ARPA>

>For a man, Tiptree sure writes strong female characters well....
>* Witch World, etc., by Andre Norton
>Another male writer who espouses feminist views. 

Um, I hate to break this to you, but both Tiptree and Norton are female.

>I've found Piers Anthony to be an author who, unlike many others,
>has no problem at all with feminist doctrine.

I assume you forgot the :-)

>Others have suggested that John Norman's Gor series treat women in a
>radically different way than most other authors, but I haven't had a
>chance to read any of those books.

"Different" is the operative word.  As in "nobody else gets away with 
such sexist trash".  In all fairness, the first book is excellent and
doesn't foreshadow his future treatment of women.  I've heard that the
first seven are good and the last thirty-odd are trash.  (I read a random
sample in the teens and twenties (three of them), and it really took 
some arm twisting for a friend to convince me to read the first one).

Evan Kirshenbaum
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