Comments on: Writing The Other Shouts-Outs – June 2010

By: Brittany Fuller

Brittany Fuller — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:58:01 +0000

And apparently HE’S making the movie script for it and has the clout to make his choices stick – none of that Avatar ridiculousness, I’m hoping.

By: Brittany Fuller

Brittany Fuller — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:57:02 +0000

In this white girl’s opinion, Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys is a fantastic example of a book by a white author in which all the main characters (and secondary characters, and tertiary characters with only a few exception that I can think of) are black. He turned the concept of “the Other” around, only specifying when a character is white, making black neutral.

By: Rob Hansen

Rob Hansen — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:28:02 +0000

I spend a lot of time wincing when reading what American authors fondly believe to be convincing British dialogue, and without fail spot at least a couple of cultural howlers in books they set over here. In decades of reading, I’ve only come across *one* book by an American where this didn’t happen: ‘Scholars of the Night’ by John M. Ford.

By: kimstrauss

kimstrauss — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:40:32 +0000

This is my first comment here, but I wanted to mention a few as my personal intro:

–Robin Hobb’s Soldier Son trilogy
–Lynn Flewelling’s Night Runner series
–Stephen Erickson’s Malazan Tales of the Fallen series

By: Wild Clover

Wild Clover — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:46:38 +0000

Co-sign to Speed of Dark, though in retrospect, while in most of her novels the hero is female, the males all work equally well as people when the viewpoint changes (though as a girl, I may be missing something). David Webber’s Honor Harrington series- I’ve met him, he is definitely male, yet Honor is very female.

Oh, and thanks for the reminder of “The Pirates of Dark Water”- I love that cartoon (and am introducing my kids to it now that I’ve been reminded :))

By: rejiquar

rejiquar — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:33:57 +0000

Oh, sorry for the double-posting (I just woke up) but what about Robin McKinley’s Damar stories, or her latest, splendid _Chalice_? Her approach is much like LeGuin’s in Earthsea, but if you’re paying attention, it’s pretty obvious, pale blonde on the cover notwithstanding, that the people in the book are likely brown.

By: rejiquar

rejiquar — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:29:20 +0000

Seconding the Bujold—_Mirror Dance_ in particular, it seems to me, explores ableism, fat and mental illness in what strikes me as a believable and sympathetic way, at least afaict.

She’s a bit weak on race (& I say this with LMB being my favorite sf author, but I was really disappointed that everyone in the WGW series ended up being white—thought, *at last*, gonna see this author tackle CoC, but nope.)

However, Tamora Pierce does that well, particularly in her later books. I’m thinking particularly of the duology set on the Copper Isles.

By: P. G. Dudda

P. G. Dudda — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:43:13 +0000

I can co-sign on China Mountain Zhang. I didn’t like the book itself overmuch (despite its popularity), but McHugh’s depiction of the gay main character was pretty accurate.

Also Speed of Dark, at least from the perspective of exploring what it means to “cure” a disability (in adulthood) that one is born with.

By: NWHiker

NWHiker — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:42:01 +0000

Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan.

By: sistercoyote.livejournal.com/

sistercoyote.livejournal.com/ — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:33:14 +0000

cosign on Leverage; add Fringe (there are problematic issues with Fringe, particularly WRT mental health issues, but overall.)