I read all the female written sf&f I could get my hands on in the 80s. Because there was hardly any available in translation to German and later in uni imported into Germany. So I took to working during uni breaks to have enough money for a 3-day holiday in London to go to Forbidden Planet sf/f bookstore and browse their 28 top-to-bottom shelves of paperbacks, filling my empty suitcase to the allowed limit of 25kg which lasted my first read-through for half a year. And then I reread obsessively and stopped reading books in German altogether.
I will always be thankful especially to Jody Lee, the illustrator whose style I love (even in some of the Mercedes Lackey covers ^^) and DAW in particular for having so many female writers even then. These days I will only read male protagonists written by women, and prefer female protagonists by far. I had decades of not being able to get any so I feel I've paid my dues
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I read all the Dancer books availabe thru the 90s - haven't reread them since then
Date: 2023-11-17 04:08 pm (UTC)I will always be thankful especially to Jody Lee, the illustrator whose style I love (even in some of the Mercedes Lackey covers ^^) and DAW in particular for having so many female writers even then. These days I will only read male protagonists written by women, and prefer female protagonists by far. I had decades of not being able to get any so I feel I've paid my dues