reading female authors 2015 -- which next?

TrackerNeil said:
Great thread.

I've been reading Pauline Ross, author the Brightmoon series
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Never heard of her. Thanks!

eta -- ooooo, she's British. I love British authors. :)

edited again ta -- Oh duhh. Pauline is one of my GR friends -- but I didn't recognize her last name, and I didn't know she was a writer. LOL.

As for dissing indie authors: Michael Sullivan. Hugh Howie.
 
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The problem with indies is obscurity. There are so many of them that it is not easy to identify what is good. Normally when I read a novel I have read a number of opinions/reviews, and I understand the biases of the sources of those reviews. That's difficult to do with indies, except for the few of them that have already reached notoriety.
 
farseer2 said:
The problem with indies is obscurity. There are so many of them that it is not easy to identify what is good. Normally when I read a novel I have read a number of opinions/reviews, and I understand the biases of the sources of those reviews. That's difficult to do with indies, except for the few of them that have already reached notoriety.
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Agreed. This is made worse by reviewers (some of whom are indies themselves) who systematically exclude indie works from consideration.

But I think I am contributing to thread drift here, so I'll shut my yap on this topic. :)
 
DeckardLee said:
I have not read that many fantasy/horrors written by female authors. However, I have read a lot of them by male authors and I can say that the Coldfire Trilogy by C. S. Friedman is one of the most interesting series I've read recently. It's incredibly dark and you might say depressing so watch out for that. But, it's entertaining and explores the darker, inner workings of the human psyche quite effectively.
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There are plenty of women who write darker stuff - Francis Knights Rojan Dizon books are pretty dark, as is some of Kameron Hurley's. I think this sometimes surprises people - certainly a lot of the reviews I'm getting for mine mention how dark it is and, whilst it is indeed dark, it's not (I don't think, anyhow) on a par with eg Mark Lawrence's grimdark. But I could be wrong...

So, yeh, we're not all fairy-fantasy writers. :)
 
JV Jones A Cavern of Black Ice series is "Mark Lawrence" grimdark, although her other books are not.
But I agree that "grimdark" writing seems to be a male Thing.
I rather love a little romance in a novel, I confess, besides all that guts and gore. Love stories seem to have been completey emigrated into paranormal romance
 
Contrarius said:
I don't *think* I've ever read Tepper, and I didn't have her on my list -- so good catch. I just looked up her books on Goodreads, and I think I'll put the Mavin Manyshaped books on the list.
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The Gate to Women's Country is my favourite Tepper novel. It knocks all of her other books out of the park in my humble opinion. One thing to be mindful of with Tepper is that her endings tend to be a bit weak. She has great ideas and world building, but I think her plots tend to get a bit muddled at the end. Women's Country didn't do that. It is solid stuff.
 
A great completed trilogy worth checking out by Laura resnick starts with in legend born (always liked that as a title!) ....
 
I'm truly staggered that no one has mentioned Melanie Rawn! (apologies if I missed it)

Dragon Prince Trilogy
Dragon Prince, 1988
The Star Scroll, 1989
Sunrunner's Fire, 1990

Dragon Star Trilogy
Stronghold, 1991
The Dragon Token, 1993
Skybowl, 1994

Those two series are up there with the best I've read.
 
Thanks! I've got her somewhere on my list, but I'll make sure to move her up closer to the top. :-)
 
I read Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn, and I thought it was just okay. One of these days, I'll probably try out the next book, but it's not all that high on my list.

Right now, I'm enjoying The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells.
 
I haven't read all the posts in this thread, but I noticed you didn't put Lindsay Buroker on your list. Have you tried her series, The Emperor's Edge? It's a fun read.
 
Ryan Mueller said:
I read Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn, and I thought it was just okay. One of these days, I'll probably try out the next book, but it's not all that high on my list.

Right now, I'm enjoying The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells.
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I read that last year, and I intend to finish the trilogy some time this year. It was fun, though sometimes the various species seemed rather like "Star Trek aliens" -- like human beings wearing masks and rubber suits. They all ate the same foods, had the same environmental requirements, and so on. That wasn't *always* true, but it annoyed me at times.
 
N. E. White said:
I haven't read all the posts in this thread, but I noticed you didn't put Lindsay Buroker on your list. Have you tried her series, The Emperor's Edge? It's a fun read.
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I did read the first one a year or so back. It wasn't bad, sort of a fantasy Ocean's Eleven vibe, but it didn't really grab me. I may read the next book sometime, but it's not really high on my list. But thanks for the suggestion!
 
Kingsman said:
I'm truly staggered that no one has mentioned Melanie Rawn! (apologies if I missed it)

Dragon Prince Trilogy
Dragon Prince, 1988
The Star Scroll, 1989
Sunrunner's Fire, 1990

Dragon Star Trilogy
Stronghold, 1991
The Dragon Token, 1993
Skybowl, 1994

Those two series are up there with the best I've read.
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Judith Tarr is curating a reread over a Tor.com of these books. As such, I snagged a copy of Dragon Prince last year but still haven't read it yet. Been wanting to dive into those books for years.
 
Contrarius, you must have subconsciously convinced me. Quite by accident, I realized that I've just picked up books by Katherine Addison, Ellen Kushner, Diana Wynn Jones, Patricia McKillip, Melanie Rawn, Helene Wecker, and Martha Wells, individuals who (I think) all happen to be women.

This has caused me to consider whether I'm not being fair to male authors.
 
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