Comments | rachelmanija: Female science fiction and fantasy writers first published in the 1970s, Part IV (R-Z)

rachelmanija

Female science fiction and fantasy writers first published in the 1970s, Part IV (R-Z)

Jun 28, 2011 10:02

Anne Rice. I read Interview with a Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and about three chapter of Queen of the Damned before getting bored, all, as I recall, while crashing at the house of someone who owned them and not much else other than The Godfather and a lot of early gay literature of the "angsty young man angsts" variety. (The book of The Godfather ( Read more... )

author: tuttle lisa, author: rice anne, author: willis connie, genre: psychic kids, author: salmonson jessica amanda, author: springer nancy, genre: science fiction, genre: fantasy, author: van scyoc sydney

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jinian June 28 2011, 17:21:09 UTC

Larque on the Wing is pretty great.

Joan D. Vinge is one of the people I think of when I think "kids with powers"! I haven't read the Cat books in ages, but you should definitely give them a try. Psion is first.

tavella June 28 2011, 17:35:44 UTC

I remember liking Springer's Book of the Isle series back as a teenager, but I have no idea if it would stand up now.

Joan Vinge's stuff is good -- I'm surprised that you never read at least The Snow Queen. Though I liked the Cat books better, even if the levels of whump can be overdone.

rachelmanija June 28 2011, 17:45:31 UTC

I was too busy reading about the Angst of the Giant-Vagina'd, apparently.

I clearly need to read Psion. Angsty psychic kid angsts about being psychic!

tool_of_satan June 28 2011, 17:36:38 UTC

Nitpick: this is actually part IV.

Nitpick for the person who originally compiled this list: Sydney Van Scyoc was first published in 1962. (Her first novel was published in 1971, but ISFDB lists a bunch of stories from the 60s.)

rachelmanija June 28 2011, 17:44:13 UTC

Corrected, thanks!

tool_of_satan June 28 2011, 17:38:50 UTC

I've read a bunch of Willis, but other than that, not much from this list. All I have read from Shwartz is her material in the two Arabesques anthologies she edited, but I think that is all story introductions and framing stories. These anthologies included stories by Springer and Wilder, but I don't remember much about them now.

lnhammer June 28 2011, 18:17:46 UTC

I've read a couple of Shwartz's historical fantasies, all set in western or central Asia, and kinda uneven. All are cleanly written and work the well-researched setting well, but often emotionally cold, for lack of a better phrase. What passion there was, which often isn't much, wasn't felt. Silk Roads and Shadows was the best, or at least the one I remember the best.

---L.