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Thanks for the suggestions, I have just added a few new entries to an ever growing amazon wish list. :-) I've certainly known of some of the authors before and appreciated their work but I always like getting suggestions of...
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xtifr commented on
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Well, off the top of my head (and assuming you're already familiar with really big names like Cherryh, Willis, and Bujold): Nancy Kress is one of my very favorite authors—one whose works I'll buy sight unseen—and she generally falls into the hard SF category, with an emphasis on biotech and genetic engineering. I think she may be one of the most underrated women in SF today. (I was a little disappointed with the first book of her "Probability" trilogy, Probability Moon, but the second was much stronger, and the third blew me away!) One of my very favorite cyperpunkish-with-an-LGBT-angle works...
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Dai Kiwi commented on
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Since comments here seem to have died, and thinking about the retro-Hugo awards next year, for 1940. My knowledge of fandom for that era is pretty much limited to recognising the names of men who were, or became, authors, or show up in 'first fandom' awards. I know that some of them met their partners through fandom. The letter columns of the pulps of the time show that there were female fans. And of course there were women writing for the pulps and the comics (and illustrating them). So, a question: Is there a handy reference somewhere of women who...
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dr2chase commented on
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Off-topic, but of the many ways we might purchase these various books, which send more or less money to the author? (I just bought one, so maybe it's not completely off-topic) This was not the sort of question that had a quick and easy hit from an internet search engine, and the pages it sent me to were also a few years old and I suspect this answer changes over time. Options for me (that I know about) include: Google Nook/B&N Kindle/Amazon Apple dead trees And is the answer much different for new versus established authors?...
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Soon Lee commented on
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Very late to the party but I recently read & thoroughly enjoyed "Archangel", Marguerite Reed's debut novel. It's SF with a bunch of different elements (older female protagonist, ecology, MilSF, genetic engineering, an Earth colony that actually has diverse colonists and not just white Christian heterosexuals) that come together well and gets the thumbs up from me....
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Steph Swainston commented on
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YES there is more on the way....
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