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• Bellinghman commented on Chilling Effects
  I agree. Good YA is too good for the kids! For YA fantasy, I strongly recommend Frances Hardinge. She's done half a dozen or so novels, and I've not had a duff one yet (though one is still in my unread pile, so I concede that one could be). Her typical protagonist may be a quarter my age and female to boot, but I get sucked straight in. (Disclaimer: a friend of friends, so I've met her a few times. But I think that means she has to work harder to get the same acknowledgement of her skills from me,...
• Graham commented on Chilling Effects
  As a general response, this isn't about the best way to sell my books, but much more generally about ways to improve the visibility, consideration, and acceptance of women in a wider swath of the genre. Surely the one advantage you (that's 'you' writers who worry and/or suffer from the bias not 'you women') do have here is that one of the major joys of the genre to the readers is enabling the questioning of their own assumptions by removing them from day-to-day context. Having established that a bias exists, you have now surely also established that there is...
• douglas clark commented on Chilling Effects
  The last two SFF books I bought were Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice and Nina Allan's Race. I bought them about ten days ago and I didn't really consider the sex of the authors when I bought them. I hummed and hawed about whether I would like a book that had won every award in the field and decided I'd follow the crowd. I don't regeret that decision and book two is on it's way to me from the dreaded Amazon. The story behind Nina Allan is a bit more interesting. She wrote a short story in Interzone called 'Marielena', an...
• Giulio Prisco commented on Chilling Effects
  Hi Linda, I am a big fan of yours. Limit of Vision is my favorite (by far - it's really a great novel, please write more like that), followed by The Bohr Maker and Tech Heaven. I found Vast and Deception Well fascinating but a bit too intense. I didn't like Memory much. I look forward to reading First Light. But I won't recommend your books because you are a woman. I will recommend them because you are a great writer....
• Random Dudebro commented on Chilling Effects
  Thanks for the pass, and thank you a lot for the recommendations....