Staying true to my words, I'll say goodnight to you too, Bitches.
Don't talk so much while I'm away, OK? I have the feeling I'll wake up tomorrow to 152 new posts in discussion I hate to miss.
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
Spike ,'Potential'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Shir - Sep 16, 2009 12:30:02 pm PDT #23425 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Cashmere - Sep 16, 2009 12:30:03 pm PDT #23426 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Williams Gibson's stuff mostly isn't about aliens but is damned good science fiction.
Kathy A - Sep 16, 2009 12:31:45 pm PDT #23427 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Her adult work I found shrilly one-note political.
This is why The Family Tree remains the only book of hers I've read. Really annoyingly strident in her political agenda. I have similar issues with James Tiptree, Jr.--she (Alice Sheldon was her real name) was blatantly anti-male in her writing, but she did write some beautiful short stories nonetheless.
-t - Sep 16, 2009 12:33:51 pm PDT #23428 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's not necessarily a shortcoming that any given SF alien species serves as a metaphor for some aspect of humanity, either. It's a reasonable approach.
Daisy Jane - Sep 16, 2009 12:34:06 pm PDT #23429 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Did she write "Herland"?
StuntHusband - Sep 16, 2009 12:35:31 pm PDT #23430 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
I did find that bias in Tiptree - except in "Brightness Falls from the Air" which is a CRUSHING novel, about inevitability, and cruelty, and vengeance. The writing is so beautiful that I have to re-read it every so often, but not more than once every couple of years; I find it shattering.
(I'm sure this comes as little surprise to most of the Bitches that the "James Tiptree Award" is handed out every year for SF/F that challenges assumptions about gender)
Strix - Sep 16, 2009 12:35:45 pm PDT #23431 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I can totally see how some of Tepper's works could be seen as one-note, ita. Some of her books I just have to roll my eyes at, but some of them, I think she has some gallow's humored, funny scenes.
Connie Neil - Sep 16, 2009 12:43:25 pm PDT #23432 of 30000
brillig
"Ensign Rock" shows up in 2 (non-canon) Trek novels from the 80s, as a Starfleet Academy trainee.
It's only Ensign Rock because humans can't pronounce Horta, and he's a son of the original Horta (I personally find the series of books quite fun). And I think only the Romulans call him Ensign Rock. Diane Duane, I think, wrote them, and she has some interesting stuff about Romulans and Vulcans.
re: Sherri Tepper-- Grass, Raising the Stones, and Sideshow are the ones I recommend for her, they're something of a trilogy, and there's a lot of her typical gender/social issues involved, though not as strongly as Gate to Women's Country, which I tend to argue with.
Connie Neil - Sep 16, 2009 12:49:50 pm PDT #23433 of 30000
brillig
poptarts
Naraht! That's his name.
Strix - Sep 16, 2009 12:53:27 pm PDT #23434 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Hmm, yes, Connie- GtWC is a *tad* on the "men are evil, unless they are SNAG's, OMG, run!"
Also, I get the impression that she thinks liking sex makes you an intellectual moron. Heh. Well, I don't have to agree 100% with an author . Sometimes it 's more fun to mentally argue with them!