05-16-2012, 08:36 PM | #91 |
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I'm going to dodge for now the analysis of what aspects of sci-fi appeal to females, and just throw out there that my girlfriend loves anything by Jules Verne. ^.^
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I am also a woman and I love science fiction including hard science fiction. What I don't like, though, are books where the characters are solely there to bring the ideas across.
Connie Willis has already been mentioned on this thread, and I heartily second this recommendation. Her stories tend to focus on characters, not ideas. My favorites are her Oxford time travel novels. I can also recommend Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife. It's technically science fiction in my opinion because of the time travel element, but there's no science in it, it's all about the characters dealing with the situation. And I think it wasn't marketed as science fiction, just like Margaret Atwood's books. Another favorite of mine is Kage Baker's Company series, starting with In the Garden of Iden. It's mandatory to start with this one, I think. It has cyborgs and time travel, but whole stretches of it read like a historical novel. I would also like to recommend Robert J. Sawyer's WWW trilogy, starting with Wake. It has some science in it, but it focuses on philosophical questions. Frameshift by the same author would be another recommendation. It's a science fiction/murder mystery crossover and also focuses on the characters rather than on ideas. And for something entirely different: Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series. I know they were marketed as high fantasy, at least the first three or four, but they are definitely science fiction. They have great characters and not much science. |
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My XX-blessed friends are very fond of anything by CJ Cherryh and Joan Vinge (especialy her PSION novels) but they prefer *good* SF, the kind that appeals to anybody with taste.
Along those lines I would suggest 1632 by Eric Flint, anything by Lois MacMaster Bujold (but if you want to start somewhere, CORDELIA's HONOR or CETAGANDA are excellent starting points), and David Drake's RCN novels (WITH THE LIGHTNINGS at a minimum). My mother is a fan of all three series. (As well as the Honor Harrington series.) |
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Xanthe- Wow- you are the first person I have ever seen mention Kristine Smith's Jani Killian series- I love it, esp her mentor. Also love Tanya Huff's Valor series.
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I second Kage Baker's series about time traveling cyborgs, starting with In the Garden of Iden- IMO the series just gets better and better with each book. Great for any reader. I also like some not too heavy military SF- such as The Legion of the Damned- like the Fr foreign legion but with cyborgs and aliens.
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Under the Dome by Stephen King
Includes a list of interesting characters and has maps of the small town I'm half way through and haven't been bored once ! |
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Coming back to this thread to recommend "Stardance" by Jeanne and Spider Robinson, which I re-read recently. It's about a dancer who invents a new form of dance - zero gravity dance - because she's been deemed too voluptuous to ever be a successful modern dancer. In the course of her efforts, she and the people who work with her meet aliens whose language is based on dance.
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Varley writes women so well, I suspected that "John Varley" was a pseudonym for a woman writer for a long time. I was introduced to his work via an anthology of interconnected stories titled The Persistence of Vision. See also The Ophiuchi Hotline and Steel Beach.
Ursula K. LeGuin is a master who has authored some works now considered classics. I tend to think of her as a sociologist masquerading as a SF writer, but she's good, so who cares? A good work of hers to start with is The Left Hand of Darkness. And long, long ago, I got hooked on SF as a teenager when I checked Andre Norton's novels out of the school library--now that was a pseudonym for a female author! Last edited by Nancy F Furner; 05-21-2012 at 10:31 PM. |
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I am female and my attitude is anything not asimov. I find it way way to dry. The male of the species in the house will usally read a sci fi book first and he will tell me if it is asimov like or not. He is my guide to what I will read. I am tho these days more into post apocolyptic horror and zombie with a touch of fantasy to my shock and a trashy thriller thrown in here and there.
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I know people who claim to not like sci-fi and nevertheless adore The Hunger Games or Juraissic Park or whatever else is currently on the Wal-Mart shelves. It seems to me that this group of people is prepared to jump into strong genre novels because they are already acquainted with the basic principles of sci-fi. Readers who have never ventured beyond light chick lit or realistic adventure novels, in contrast, are probably going to need to start out with books where the speculative element is slight. |
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you need to break it down further. I wouldnt touch YA anything. For a book to grab me and most women it is interesting characters that are fleshed out. Then you will find those who will read sci fi that has romance in ir or soap like qualities or a dozen other things. I am not a girly girl when it comes to books. I need action suspense with a preference for extreme horror elements. Now finding all that in a sci fi book is hard, and I am very into sci fi down to star trek stargate etc. Tho they are sci fi soaps.
I doubt many women would crave those elements in their sci fi. But identifing the elements they want is a good start. btw if anybody knows a sci fi book with the elements I like do share please ") applesauce |
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