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... to Kashmir by Ian Fleming's brother Peter. It looks exactly like my kind of thing.
From my own library I'll recommend Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (who is not Nicholas Griffin as in DQ's post #122, but that's how I first read his name). I'm looking forward to the Feminist sci-fi too. I've read Glass House and Glory Season and enjoyed them, and have Ammonite tbr. ... Haden Elgin
My favorite female authors are Nicola Griffith and Octavia Butler. I absolutely recommend Slow River and Ammonite to you.
Other lesser-known authors to consider include Sarah Zettel, Joan Slonczewski, Cecilia Tan, Joanna Russ.
~psybre
... "planet of women" was a reasonably common trope -- either as a dystopia or a utopia, until much later Nicola Griffith wrote Ammonite where it was just a place, inhabited by people who happened to be all female -- so saying "Oh, look, a women-only world" isn't enough.
It's the ending -- ... Griffith only wrote two sf novels, Ammonite and Slow River. Now she writes crime novels. Griffith has had several books published since Ammonite. Slow River was sf, but The Blue Place, Stay and Always are all crime novels. ... maybe lesser known writers.
Nicola Griffith (I don't think she has published anything for over a decade though - since Ammonite)
Doris Piserchia
Jane Palmer (you can buy her books from lulu - links from her home page. She also has free first chapters)
Josephine Saxton
... them. But, I've been meaning to, and I've heard good things about them:
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Shadow Man by Melissa Scott
Terrorists of Irustan by Louise Marley That's her second novel, Slow River. Her first novel, Ammonite, was set on an alien world with a humanoid, and all-female, population. ... reading: Weaving a Way Home
Up next: Either Bottomfeeder or The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
5 - SF/FANTASY
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (Jan)
The Stone War by Madeleine E. Robins (Mar)
Sisters in Fantasy edited by Susan Shwartz (Apr)
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pr ... ... too. A paperback edition of James Tiptree with several Short Stories including Houston, Houston Do You Read. I also own Ammonite too plus a few other Nicola Griffith and a couple of books by David Brin. I also have on my TBR pile of books where a male Astronaut has to go to an all female ... ... Rosenblum, Connie Willis and Kate Wilhelm, in no particular order. I also really enjoyed Nicola Griffith's Ammonite. Are there any fans of any of these out there who could recommend other SF writers to me? I've already got Jo Walton's Farthing on my wish list. (I'm a big ... ... (Feb)
4 - NON-FICTION
Storming Heaven edited by Amber Sumrall and Patricia Vecchione (Feb)
5 - SF/FANTASY
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (Jan)
The Stone War by Madeleine E. Robins (Mar)
6 - MYSTERIES
Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel (Feb)
Except the Dyi ... ... by Janice Erlbaum (autobiography/biography/memoir)
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (borrowed books)
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (rereads)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (rereads) ... (I don't know when I stopped paying attention to them, but I think it's cuz I just read too many!), but I think I loved Ammonite and was a little disappointed in the direction she went in Slow River. We have a difficult time getting our hands on anything with a lesbian theme because of ... ... Rereads, Borrowed Books and Books I've Been Wanting to Read for a Long Time...
So here goes:
9 - REREADS
1. Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
2. Berlin Solstice by Sylvia Fraser
3. Charades or Borderline by Janette Turner Hospital
4. Sleep Thieves by Stanley Coren ... ... message of encouragement! I noticed from your profile that Nicola Griffith is one of your favourite authors. Have you read Ammonite? I remember loving it years ago when I first read it; I just bought it again recently and am rereading it (even though it's not on my challenge list!). I didn't ... ... of the Renunciates.
Nicola Griffith has some really, really good stuff that's more on the scifi side of things. Ammonite is fantastic.
Sheri Tepper is one of the leading feminist scifi writers. The only one I've read so far is The Gate to Women's Country but I thought it ... ... a big fan of Nicola Griffith although she hasn't written SF for a bit. But her Slow River (which won the Nebula) and Ammonite are definitely worth checking out. The latter reminded me a bit of Le Guin, but felt more accessible to me. Zodiac
Jumper
Ammonite
Cryptonomicon
Lunatics
... segregated society department I recomend:
Glory Season by David Brin
A Voice out of Ramah by Lee Killough
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Daughters of a Coral Dawn by Katherine V. Forrest
Wingwomen of Hera by Sandi Hall I finally read Ammonite by Nicola Griffith this year, and mostly really enjoyed it. I'm fascinated by female only planet books, (I have them tagged single gender society so I can include Ethan of Athos in the tag and ... Hi, deliriumslibrarian.
Griffith has won a Tiptree, for Ammonite.
Female Man was published before the Tiptrees started, and is one of the top books tagged "feminist sf".
I think there are too few Tiptree winners to form much of a conclusion about their biases and limitations. (O ... If you like Katherine Forrest's books, you may like Nicola Griffith's as well, particularly Ammonite. Also, Joanna Russ's The Female Man, which (as the title suggests) is an early genderqueer SF book, and damn good fun. Elisabeth Vonarburg's The Maerlande Chronicles is a ...
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