Top 10 Supernatural Families

Nov 05, 2010 08:36

Author Jennifer Lynn Barnes gave a list of her top 10 supernatural families to The Guardian.

Here's the ListAssuming all initial names are women (with the exception of CS Lewis), then there's only one male author on her list. The aforementioned CS Lewis ( Read more... )

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tomomi November 7 2010, 05:09:36 UTC
Skimming the list, I suspect that it wasn't entirely a coincidence -- most of her choices seem to be from series which (accurately or not) -I- personally would classify as supernatural romance -- a segment where women authors predominate.

In the greater sf/f sphere there are plenty of families in books by both men and women. Most epics -require- family ties of some sort... a good fraction of major plot themes involve sibling rivalry or some kind of parental issues.

How many books can you name where there are -no- related characters?

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