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gategrrlHi everyone!
I'm trying to write a short article on a subject some of you brought up when Rob Thurman's Cal Leandros series came up in conversation (as a group, you converted me, and I really like the series) a few months ago. It's been in my head ever since. The brief subject was, "I will never read a book with a female lead character and only read books with male lead characters."
Can you tell me more about this? Why this is so? Have you ever broken your own rule, and regretted it, or did not regret reading a female protag lead book but figured it was a fluke and you wouldn't do it again? Or the female POV just isn't interesting to you, even if the male POV is written by a woman (which you'd figure, is filtered through a female's POV anyhow).
All I have to go on are the reasons *I* think why, but I'd like to hear your own reasons, if you wouldn't mind telling me more about it. I think it's fascinating. I'm kind of in the same camp, but I have my own biases.
I'm trying to write a short article on a subject some of you brought up when Rob Thurman's Cal Leandros series came up in conversation (as a group, you converted me, and I really like the series) a few months ago. It's been in my head ever since. The brief subject was, "I will never read a book with a female lead character and only read books with male lead characters."
Can you tell me more about this? Why this is so? Have you ever broken your own rule, and regretted it, or did not regret reading a female protag lead book but figured it was a fluke and you wouldn't do it again? Or the female POV just isn't interesting to you, even if the male POV is written by a woman (which you'd figure, is filtered through a female's POV anyhow).
All I have to go on are the reasons *I* think why, but I'd like to hear your own reasons, if you wouldn't mind telling me more about it. I think it's fascinating. I'm kind of in the same camp, but I have my own biases.
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Date: 2009-05-17 11:27 pm (UTC)One author I haven't yet seen mentioned is Jack McDevitt. If you like exploration-based, sense-of-wonder science fiction, he has a series of 5 or so books about space pilot Priscilla Hutchins (Hutch). My personal favorite was Deep Six, but the first one in the series is The Engines of God. Over the course of the novels Hutch ages and does all the life stuff (marriage, kids--who are in college by the last novel, so Hutch is no dewy-eyed 20-something) but it's not the focus of the novels and her primary passions are career and space exploration. Hutch is part of a futuristic academic organization, so the stories aren't mil sci-fi.
McDevitt also does a nice job with actual science fiction and imagining aliens and alien planets that really are different from Earth and humans. It has FTL, but it is not whiz-bang space fantasy with lasers and teleporters merely standing in for wands, vorpal swords, and magic doorways. I recommend giving him a try.
Tiffany
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Date: 2009-05-18 09:34 pm (UTC)That's *exactly* the type of book I love to read. I'm going to check Paperback Book Swap right now.
Thanks for the recommendation.