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If you can recommend more female authors on par with, say, JK Rowling, Fred Vargas, Neil Gaiman or Patrick Rothfuss, I'd be happy to read them. It's hard enough
by facepalm 10y ago
If you can recommend more female authors on par with, say, JK Rowling, Fred Vargas, Neil Gaiman or Patrick Rothfuss, I'd be happy to read them. It's hard enough to find good books, worrying about the author's gender is very pointless. Especially since I am not interested in women's issues, which nobody should be obliged to be.
- bolasanibk 10y agoI would highly recommend Lois McMaster Bujold. She is not hard sci fi though and the sci fi elements mostly act as a setting for the story.
- facepalm 10y agoThanks, I will give her books a try!
- Animats 10y agoHer Vorkosigan series is hard sci fi. It helps to read those in order. She makes references to events five books back. You don't have to recognize them, but it helps.
- ilamparithi 10y agoSeconded. Her books are wonderful.
- schlupp 10y agoRight, noone should. Except people who decided not to be obnoxious ignorant douchebags.
- jnicholasp 10y agoThere are thousands of problems in the world, and you, like all of us, are almost certainly doing absolutely nothing about the vast majority of them, even if you've picked a few that you do care about and are actively engaged in. Does it make sense for someone who has picked a different set of things than you to care about, to denounce you as an ignorant douchebag because you aren't fighting their fight? If not, does it really make sense for you to call others, at the drop of a hat, ignorant douchebags for not fighting the battle that you've chosen to fight?
- facepalm 10y agoSo do you have any good books to recommend, or not?
- moultano 10y agoIf you haven't read any Ursula K. LeGuin yet, she is amazing. Start with either The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, or The Wizard of Earthsea, depending on whether you are most interested in gender, societal systems, or wizards, respectively.
- facepalm 10y agoThanks - I've read and liked Earthsea, but it might be time for another one.