I did a little thought experiment on myself while reading Andre Norton's Uncharted Stars, where I mentally rewrote the two secondary characters (Ryzk and Zilwrich) as female. There was no plot requirement for those people to be male, so why not? That one change improved the book immeasurably.

I think I'm going to start applying that technique to ( Read more... )

I have been on a minor Andre Norton kick these past few months -- I have read some books that are new to me, and some that were childhood favorites I haven't read in about 30 years.

I think I mentioned at some point that my childhood hometown library had a surprisingly large selection of Andre Norton's books, most of which they kept in the children' ( Read more... )