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[X-posted from my blog, because different audiences/different suggestions]
I’d like to add more women to my reading list. (Or people of color, or both).
So, I’m looking to you, oh great internet, in hopes that y’all can recommend things like (I’m going to give a list of people I’ve read and enjoyed, but have mostly finished all of their work):
Mercedes Lackey
Shelley Adina
Trudi Canavan
Margaret Atwood
Ursula K LeGuin
Octavia Butler (see note later)
Patricia Wrede
Tamora Pierce
Dianna Wynne Jones
Kage Baker
Catherine Asaro
Elizabeth Bear’s short fictions (see note later)
Esther Friesner’s Chicks in [chain]Mail series
Diana Gabaldon
Tanith Lee
I like things that are about wonderful, or awful, or fun, or quirky characters—not all of them women, but when they are women characters they are fully realized and their sole motivation is not romantic.
Octavia Butler note: I realized I’m sorely lacking in reading people of color, especially within SFF, because I was racking my brain for women of color SFF authors I like and I was all Octavia Butler and and and…oh s***. It’s just her. (I know of Steven Barnes, but haven’t yet read him.)
Elizabeth Bear note: Where do I start in her series/which series do I start with? My library only holds mid-catalog, so I’m gonna have to buy these.
Ok, back to main point. I do not—repeat DO NOT—want rec’s for paranormal fantasy/urban fantasy. It’s not that I don’t like the subgenre, I just have read all the good ones I think I’m gonna want for a while. Zombies are similarly out.
I’ve heard of Cherie Priest, liked the one Seanan McGuire thing I read but have yet to read more, and am scratching my head for new things to read, and I’m planning on buying one of Saladin Ahmed’s books.
If you wanna recommend your own work, please know that if you write paranormal fantasy/urban fantasy/zombie crossover novels, I’m not gonna be interested. I’m not against reading outside of Spec Fic, but I wanna see what’s available/highly recommended within SFF first.
I know lists exist out there, but I want to know what books moved people/entertained people here.
I’d like to add more women to my reading list. (Or people of color, or both).
So, I’m looking to you, oh great internet, in hopes that y’all can recommend things like (I’m going to give a list of people I’ve read and enjoyed, but have mostly finished all of their work):
Mercedes Lackey
Shelley Adina
Trudi Canavan
Margaret Atwood
Ursula K LeGuin
Octavia Butler (see note later)
Patricia Wrede
Tamora Pierce
Dianna Wynne Jones
Kage Baker
Catherine Asaro
Elizabeth Bear’s short fictions (see note later)
Esther Friesner’s Chicks in [chain]Mail series
Diana Gabaldon
Tanith Lee
I like things that are about wonderful, or awful, or fun, or quirky characters—not all of them women, but when they are women characters they are fully realized and their sole motivation is not romantic.
Octavia Butler note: I realized I’m sorely lacking in reading people of color, especially within SFF, because I was racking my brain for women of color SFF authors I like and I was all Octavia Butler and and and…oh s***. It’s just her. (I know of Steven Barnes, but haven’t yet read him.)
Elizabeth Bear note: Where do I start in her series/which series do I start with? My library only holds mid-catalog, so I’m gonna have to buy these.
Ok, back to main point. I do not—repeat DO NOT—want rec’s for paranormal fantasy/urban fantasy. It’s not that I don’t like the subgenre, I just have read all the good ones I think I’m gonna want for a while. Zombies are similarly out.
I’ve heard of Cherie Priest, liked the one Seanan McGuire thing I read but have yet to read more, and am scratching my head for new things to read, and I’m planning on buying one of Saladin Ahmed’s books.
If you wanna recommend your own work, please know that if you write paranormal fantasy/urban fantasy/zombie crossover novels, I’m not gonna be interested. I’m not against reading outside of Spec Fic, but I wanna see what’s available/highly recommended within SFF first.
I know lists exist out there, but I want to know what books moved people/entertained people here.
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