>
>To Everyone: i'd like to read more sci-fi and need your suggestions. you
>all keep tossing titles around that are all new to me. (the world of sf is
>only two years old to me. have killed Le Guin; have read most of Delaney;
>and every story in Norton's Book of SF. i want to read about strong women
>characters...
>problem is, the bookstores in good ol' Blacksburg Virginia seem to only
>carry the old heinlein stuff -- so i don't even know what to ask for. help.
>
>perhaps we could make a feminist sf canon (if that isn't an overwhelming
>contraditory of terms).
>
>thanks,
>
>lissa
I just composed a suggested reading list for another person and submits it
straight off witout much comment as it contains names not hitherto
mentioned hear as far as I've seen. Mind you, I only began to subscribe a
week ago and haven't had time to read old postings yet. They are not listed
in priority order, just assembled. Some are more philosophical in content,
some lean more over to space opera, but I like them all for different
reasons.
1) Anne McCaffrey has written in all genres available, sometimes in
collaboration with others. Always very strong women. Incindentally with
women in classic heroic parts, but much more psychologically interesting
than their male counterparts usually are. These are her different series:
The Ship Who Sang, Partnership (with Margret Ball), The Ship Who Searched
(with Mercedes Lackey), The City Who Fought (with M.S. Stirling) and The
Ship Who Won (with Jody Lynn Nye). Another series by her: The Death of
Sleep (with Jody Lynn Nye), Sassinak (with Elizabeth Moon, actually a very
good reverse of a Heinlein story with a woman in the part he cast a man,
captured by pirates, sold as a slave, rescued by intergalactic spy and so
forth), Generation Warrior (also with Moon), The Dinosaur Planet and The
Survivors. Also less technology oriented are the books about the Crystal
Singers (Killashandra, Crystal Singer, Crystal something). The Pegasus
suite (To Ride Pegasus, Damia, Damia's Children, Lyon's Pride) about ESP
developed consciously among certain people and used instead of ordinary
technology in a distant Earth future. In the books about the Dragons of
Pern (Dragonquest, The White Dragon, Moreta's Ride etc) she moves in a
low-tech agrarian society, where the planet Pern get's colonized from
Earth. It's not fantasy dragons are genetically designed to substitute for
techno travelling modes but also to defend the planet from a space spoor
which destroys organic matter. In the Petaybee suite she explores what must
be called an ecological storyline, but I won't destroy suspense by saying
more than that. A new series begun with the first book called Freedom's
Landing.
Now that took up a lot of space. I'll simply list the rest of the author's,
if anyone's interested in a summary of content of anyone of them just ask.
2) By Elizabeth Moon the trilogy: Hunting Party, Sporting Chance and
Winning Colors.
3) Katherine Kerr, Polar City Blues
4) Melissa Scott, Burning Bright
5) Jane Lindskiold, Smoke and Mirrors
6) Vonda McIntyre, trilogy: Starfarer, Nautilus and Metaphase
7) Sheri Tepper, Raising the Stones and other books (think someone
mentioned her).
8) Marion Zimmer Bradleys Darkover series of course. Tend's to make me
depressed when I read it, but they're good.
I'll be back with an introduction of myself when I've more time, but I'm
usually suspended in read-only mode as I'm working hard on the final run on
my dissertation in Art History.
Bi
Britt-Inger.Johansson@konstvet.uu.se
Research Assistant
Dept. of Art History
Uppsala slott, Soedra tornet H:0
752 37 Uppsala
Uppsala University
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