I haven't read that since high school. I should dig it out.
Captain was looking for a pilot. I found a husband. Seemed to work out.
Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
EpicTangent - Jul 27, 2021 1:49:21 pm PDT #26853 of 28079
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
EpicTangent - Jul 27, 2021 1:52:47 pm PDT #26854 of 28079
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Oh, speaking of recs, I think my best shot at a prize in the library's summer reading bingo includes a science fiction book with a female protagonist. I haven't read much science fiction at all (other than Bujold), so would love a recommendation!
Weeeeeell, Fran Wilde does some remarkable worldbuilding in Updraft.
(SF isn't my main genre either, so that's all I can rec off the top of my head!)
Jesse - Jul 27, 2021 1:59:07 pm PDT #26855 of 28079
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Funny story, I actually have read Updraft etc!
EpicTangent - Jul 27, 2021 2:15:03 pm PDT #26856 of 28079
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Oh, Charlie Jane Anders - I've read her All the Birds in the Sky, which I think skews more Fantasy than SF, but her The City in the Middle of the Night looks good (I own, but haven't gotten to read yet).
bennett - Jul 27, 2021 2:27:00 pm PDT #26857 of 28079
Several of CJ Cherryh's books are SF with female leads: The whole Chanur series; Rimrunners; Cyteen; the Morgaine cycle is a little more fantasy, so that may not work.
dcp - Jul 27, 2021 2:51:04 pm PDT #26858 of 28079
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Ooooh! Have you ever read either Hellspark or Mirabile by Janet Kagan? If not, I highly recommend them.
-t - Jul 27, 2021 3:15:44 pm PDT #26859 of 28079
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The new Charlie Jane Victories Greater than Death is very sci fi (sort of Star Trekky)has a female protagonist, and is good. And was being given away by Tor recently, I think? Like subscribe to a newsletter and get a copy of this book kind of deal. I already had my copy so I didn’t pay much attention
I just read Chuck Wendig’s Miriam Black series and she’s a female protagonist but is it SF? I think it’s probably more horror.
Vacation read: hmmmmm. This suddenly feels like a pop quiz that I am unprepared for. I will think about it some more.
I keep forgetting that I want to rec The Unravelling - it’s way far future sci fi so society is pretty much completely different, humans are pretty different, and explores some interesting ideas with that, among them vids, fic and shipping. I mean, that’s not a big part of the story but I was delighted to find them at all.
hippocampus - Jul 27, 2021 3:22:06 pm PDT #26860 of 28079
not your mom's socks.
Jesse - SB Divya’s Machinehood, Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti, Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire …
(I mean yes I love it when people read Updraft also! ❤️)
hippocampus - Jul 27, 2021 3:22:44 pm PDT #26861 of 28079
not your mom's socks.
These are all excellent recs.
Jesse - Jul 27, 2021 3:31:33 pm PDT #26862 of 28079
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thanks for all of these!