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What are some science fiction books that women would like? I don't want anything with a misogynist sensibility (like what I've heard about Heinlein).

141 posted on 01/05/2004 6:53:49 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

142 posted on 01/10/2004 1:39:56 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

143 posted on 01/10/2004 1:40:46 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

144 posted on 01/10/2004 1:41:21 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

145 posted on 01/10/2004 1:41:55 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Wow, it's been a long time since this went up! My oldest daughter has been reading books by Tamora Pierce ... young-adult stuff, quite clean. I got Steven Brust's "The Lord of Castle Black" from the library fairly recently.

Other than that it's been months of history and political reading. The book about the Florida presidential election, "At Any Cost" was quite riveting, a real nail-biting page turner :-). I had to keep reminding myself, "It's over and we won!"

146 posted on 01/10/2004 2:04:12 PM PST by Tax-chick (I reserve the right to disclaim all January 2004 posts after the BABY is born!)

Thanks! I'll check them out. :)

147 posted on 01/10/2004 8:28:07 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

I seem to remember you were reading the Wheel Of Time series. I thought you would like to know that Vol. 11 is being released on 10/11/05. The link is to Amazon.

148 posted on 08/12/2005 6:50:30 PM PDT by SunTzuWu

I plan on being at the bookstore that day to buy it.
Amazon would take too dang long!
(I'm an avid Jordan fan, having read the series 3 times now...)

149 posted on 08/12/2005 10:26:51 PM PDT by Maigrey (There's a place in this world for all of God's creations ... right next to the mashed potatoes.)

To: no one in particular

I just read a book by "Paul Kearney", the first in his new series called "The Mark of Ran", do yourself a favor and give that book a shot, i wasn't disappointed, its pretty good.

150 posted on 04/05/2006 8:00:32 AM PDT by MacMolge

Two people who you should definitely check out are JV Jones, particularly her sword of shadows series (I’d rate her as highly as Robert Jordan or George RR Martin), and Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series (who I believe is who Robert Jordan chose to finish off WoT). Frustratingly neither of these series are complete yet so you may want to wait a bit!

My favourites otherwise, who have already been mentioned are Martin and Jordan, Ian Irvine and Robin Hobb. Could anyone recommend similar authors to these? Particularly Martin, who I really enjoyed with the complexity of plot, politics and characters and also the underplaying of magic. This I have found much like Bernard Cornwell’s King Arthur series. I’ve heard Steven Erikson is comparable to Martin also.

I have to say I’ve tried Terry Goodkind, Raymond E. Feist and David Eddings (who I loved as a teenager but recently re-read) only to be disappointed by their simplicity in plot and character dialogue (something that really gets to me!)

151 posted on 03/15/2008 8:45:49 AM PDT by Blask

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