recommendations!
I just finished A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin (which is the pseudonym of Catherine Webb), and it got me wondering if anyone has any recommendations for fantasy/sci-fi written by women. I'm really interested in how female authors use fantasy, since it's so incredibly dominated by the "lord of the rings, burly Strider-type saves little woman and the future of the world" trope. Which is definitely easy to avoid if you know the good authors, but still present.
SO MY POINT IS. Tell me what fantasy or sci-fi series/books written by women you like. Or have heard of. Or just what you think of them in general.
Also I have noticed that just in passing through the shelves at Barnes and Noble, so many of the covers of new paperbacks have women on the cover. I know this is a not-so-subtle marketing thing, but I'm guessing that a lot of those books have female protagonists too. Is this a common trend in a lot of stuff you've been reading? I think a lot of the books I've read lately have had female protagonists (if not a female author), but I don't know if that's because of personal bias, or Coraline continuing to haunt my brain.
Tell me what you think!
SO MY POINT IS. Tell me what fantasy or sci-fi series/books written by women you like. Or have heard of. Or just what you think of them in general.
Also I have noticed that just in passing through the shelves at Barnes and Noble, so many of the covers of new paperbacks have women on the cover. I know this is a not-so-subtle marketing thing, but I'm guessing that a lot of those books have female protagonists too. Is this a common trend in a lot of stuff you've been reading? I think a lot of the books I've read lately have had female protagonists (if not a female author), but I don't know if that's because of personal bias, or Coraline continuing to haunt my brain.
Tell me what you think!