On the positive side, I got to rec Lois McMaster Bujold

[rachelmanija]

This weekend an acquaintance of mine noticed that I was reading an sf book-- which one, I don't recall, but it was by a woman. He remarked that he had only ever read one female sf author in his life, Octavia Butler. (And liked her work.) I asked him who else he liked, thinking to rec more women.

"I love Niven and Pournelle!" he replied.

"Hmm," I said, and recced Bujold.

"Don't you like them?" he asked, noting my lack of enthusiasm.

"Not really."

"Not even Lucifer's Hammer?"

"No... The prose was clunky and it bothered me that once the apocalypse happened, suddenly there were gangs of rampaging black cannibals."

He denied the existence of rampaging black cannibals, and suggested that I had gotten the book confused with a different post-apocalyptic work containing rampaging black cannibals, Heinlein's Farnham's Freehold. I turn the matter over to the wisdom of LJ!

[Poll #1030388]

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[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

In The Door Into Summer, the hero marries his step-daughter, whom he first falls in love with when she's nine. Much comparison of her pre-pubescent spunkiness to her mother's evil womanly ways.

Not quite. She's the hero's business partner's step-daughter and her mother is dead. The Evile Fiancee is unrelated.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

You are correct! But the Evile Fiancee is cheating on the hero with his Evile Business Partner, so I mut have conflated the three adults into some sort of menage a trois parental situation. Or, as my step-mother once phrased it, "the three of them were living in a melange."*

*On Dune, presumably.