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>"The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers This one made me think, is there any sci-fi by female authors, which involves aliens, but doesn't de
by gdy 4y ago
>"The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers
This one made me think, is there any sci-fi by female authors, which involves aliens, but doesn't depict or mention sex with them?
- club_tropical 4y agoThe question took an unexpected turn lmao
- asicsp 4y agoHmm, I read fantasy a lot more than sci-fi. I did a quick check for books I read recently and all sci-fi ones are by male authors (excluding Becky Chambers). The most recent is "Daros" by Dave Dobson which fits your other criteria.
- gdy 4y agoI once studied the map of Charon and asked myself who is Octavia Butler? Guess what Xenogenesis was about. Next I recalled Cherryh's Foreigner series and then searched my mind palace for the works of Le Guin and found The Left Hand of Darkness and The Word for World Is Forest.
- filoeleven 4y agoXenogenesis, now being published under the title Lilith’s Brood, is about colonization, coercion, identity. Missing all of that because sex—and more importantly the changing nature of the humans’ desires—plays a large role in the work is missing the forest for the trees.
- gdy 4y agoWho told you I missed anything?
- filoeleven 4y agoOk, a better reply is, “why do you ask the question?”
- gdy 4y agoBecause I want to read the answers. Why does my question bother you?
- gertrunde 4y agoThere is Nnedi Okorafor - Binti, which I enjoyed (a series of three novellas, so fairly short overall). There's quite a lot of interesting African sci-fi around at the moment, usually feels quite different from the usual western fare.
- gdy 4y agoThanks, I should try reading Africanfuturism.