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From: scott@hou2g.UUCP (Colonel'K)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: feminist SF....
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 13:42:25 EDT
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>> Here are my favorites:
>> 
>> * The Screwfly Solution, James Tiptree Jr.
>> For a man, Tiptree sure writes strong female characters well.  I
>> also enjoy the upbeat endings that his novels always have.
>> 
>> * Witch World, etc., by Andre Norton
>> Another male writer who espouses feminist views.  His female
>> characters are also very well written.

>Perhaps these two write about women so well because they ARE women!
>Writing under pseudomyms, y'know? (I'm probably only the millionth
>person to point this out.)

No, you're probably the millionth bozo to not notice the guy was KIDDING.
Hasn't anyone found it strange that all the authors mentioned were female
with male pseudonyms?  And that the Gor novels are so sexist even a five-
year-old could tell?  I'd be willing to bet (though I haven't read anything
by Tiptree) "The Screwfly Solution" has a real *downbeat* ending.

Sheesh!


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