Nope, not me...

[lithera]

I'm not checking my e-mail like every five minutes. I'm not waiting for e-mail.

*sighs*

I'm such a freak.

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[gamethyme.livejournal.com]

'Sokay.

I hit F5 every few minutes on my friends list and on my journal.

I'm not looking to be entertained by my friends. Nope.

[gehn.livejournal.com]

Of course not. I would never do that, either..

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

Nope. It isn't a habit. It isn't like you're waiting for something. It's not at all like you sit there and wait. Nope. Not at all.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

hee

Just to start the debate

[grayarcadian.livejournal.com]

Well, Kat, I've decided today that there needs to be more real sex in science fiction, and less dirty old men and media slashers writing the majority of it. I've also decided that women in dystopic fictions, including cyberpunk, hit a peak every ten years or so with Julia (1984), Clarisse (Farenhiet 451), Rachael from "Blade Runner," Sara Connor (Terminator), and Macy from "Strange Days," and then things go quickly into the sucking big time catagory after these bright stars flash across the sky.

Oh yes, and Gibson, Heinlien, and Ellison couldn't write good sex - or good women characters - to save thier ass at a NOW conference...

Now, if this doesn't start e-mail..

Re: Just to start the debate

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't think there needs to be actual sex in science fiction. I'm fine if things are off camera, so to speak, all it wants to be. I also don't mind if they actually write the scene as long as it adds something.

Heinlien had his hits and his misses with his female characters. I'd agree with the assesments on the others.

There are very few good female characters in science fiction and honestly, fantasy isn't much better. Robert Jordan has seven million women in his books and almost all of them feel like some sort of twisted stereotype to me. Guy Gavriel Kay writes women well, but then again all of his characters always seem to have an amazing intuitional skill for picking up the insanely subtle.

Re: Just to start the debate

[apestyle.livejournal.com]

Gah.
Robert Jordan is such a hack when it comes to writing women. Part of me thinks the only reason I kept reading his books was cuz I wanted something heavy to carry around.