@RUTGERS.ARPA:callaghan%pseudo.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (01/15/85)
From: callaghan%pseudo.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Gaylene Callaghan DTN:523-4523) Try Janet Morris' books on Estri's adventures. The first book in the series is "High Couch of Silistra". I believe there are four books in the series. These aren't like her other books, at least the first two aren't. (Towards the end of the third book she really gets into the "god" wars and things get a little out of hand.) Estri is the main character throughout the books (and a heroin, I might add). (As you probably noticed, I'm sort of partial to Estri.) For those that absolutely cannot stand fantasy, I wouldn't recommend the series, but to those with an open mind they are delightful. Gaylene
ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan) (01/17/85)
<I've never killed anyone I didn't dislike>
To my mind, the best female fantasy character is Tiana of Reme, highrider,pirateand heroine of an S&S trilogy by Andrew J. Offut and Richard Lyon. The last
book of the three , _Web of the Spider_ is an extraodinary book, much better
than the other two and I heartily reccommend it. There are some images
in that one that have really stuck with me (the hungry apples, the scene
depicted in the Rowena cover , the Owner, and Caranga watching a world
too real to be bourne as absolute good and absolute evil play for his world,
knowing a victory for either will doom humanity).
If you ever had any urge to read S&S with a female protagonist, get this book.
BTW, also get Jo Clayton's Moon books (esp _Moonscatter_). Altys of her Diadem
books isn't bad either.
Ted Nolan ..usceast!ted
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) (01/19/85)
How about Cirocco Jones from John Varley's _Titan_ series?
moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (01/22/85)
My goodness, how about C.J. Cherryh's "Morgaine" or "Chanur" books?
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