barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) (02/26/85)
I like most of Cherryh's stuff (especially the Gate of Ivrel trilogy, Hunter of Worlds, and Chanur). I decided Tanith Lee was /funny/ urr interesting once; read two or three books of hers, then gave them away; never bought any more. Octavia Butler's stuff is VERY good. Andre Norton's has been increasingly boring the last few years. Liked the early LeGuin. Never cared much for Tiptree. I have friends who won't buy fantasy by a male. They claim all the current great fantasy writers are female. Prejudices sure are funny, aren't they? --Lee Gold
muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy) (02/28/85)
Speaking of female SF authors...try Ann Maxwell. Especially the book "Name of a Shadow." Muffy
barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) (03/02/85)
Chauvinism strikes both ways. I know people who claim that only women write good fantasy these days, and won't read any new fantasy books by male authors. (Given Diane Duane, McKillip, LeGuin, Tanith Lee, etc. we certainly have recently had an explosion of female fantasy writers.) By the way, while we're at it, I'd like to mention Octavia Butler's stuff, particularly PATTERNMASTER, MIND OF MY MIND, THE SURVIVOR. --Lee Gold