It’s a real dinkum thinkum

[bironic]

Halloween vid is done! It’s not even the Halloween vid I meant to make (it’s The Nightmare Before Christmas instead of deathstravaganza, the latter of which will be for a Kink Bingo square), but it came easier. Now to see if I can hold off on posting it until Friday/weekend on the assumption that more people will see it then or if I give in, like, tonight.

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Am about a third of the way through Robert Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, which I picked up a couple of weekends ago for a dollar. It’s not bad. Interesting style. I like how it took time to assess Manuel’s intelligence because his narration is in Luna slang, and it’s fun that matriarchal poly marriages are standard because of the high male-to-female ratio in the colony.

On top of Ender’s Game and Jumper, though, I have had enough of male protagonists with violent arcs and casual misogyny. Next must be a change.

Was considering Ursula LeGuin’s Earthsea series, since I love me some Ursula LeGuin and that’s the only stuff by her on the shelf that I haven’t read yet, but it still focuses on a boy (Ged), no?

Would you care to share some fem-centric/fem-positive SF recs? I know you know more of it than I do, and growing up as I did on short stories of the ’50s-’60s, you can assume I haven’t read it. In the past I have liked Kate Wilhelm, Vonda McIntyre and Esther Friesner, but I’ve never read Octavia Butler or Lois McMaster Bujold, for instance. Fantasy also OK.

Maybe it’s time to dive into this Vorkosigan business. Or maybe it would go better for festivids if I waited a couple of months. :)

True story: I used to think Kim Stanley Robinson was a woman.

Comments

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

The other books I mentioned are more like the one you're reading, except without the Luna slang. They are basically Heinlein making fun of his own Midwestern conservative mores from the perspective of a wiser, more tolerant old age, I think. They're full of adventurous (sexually and otherwise), whip-smart characters and a lot of fun.

I think that I appreciated The Mists of Avalon more when I reread it as an adult. But it's difficult for me to imagine what reading it for the first time as an adult would be like.

I went back to my shelves and found a couple more recs: Daughter of the Empire by Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts and The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks!

What I expect I'll do is bring the list with me next time I'm at the library and see what strikes my fancy. And/or read blurbs online and request what appeals most through interlibrary loan. Either way, what's been recced so far should keep me busy for a while. :)