feuervogel | (Reply)

Eurgh, Ringo. I have a rock-solid stance on Ringo: I will not buy anything he has written or cowritten. No matter how cheap, or no matter who the coauthor is. There Shall Be No Ringo. (And I blame him for the worst bits of the one series -- coauthored -- that I did read, before I knew what a wankstain he was.) But yaaaay for Cherryh and Bujold! I would kill to find an active fandom for Cherryh's Foreigner or Chanur series! Whhyyyyy is there no fandom? *pouts* I need more books like those!

Dare I ask what you're reading?

Currently reading Somebody Williamson's Freehold. Keep waiting for someone to blow something up -- halfway through the book, at least, and nothing very military has happened except for her going through Basic Training! But there has been lots and lots of how wonderful Grainne is and how little government it has and how everyone is armed but is deeply personally responsible (I guess government causes mental instability, since no one seems to worry about random weirdos getting a gun and blowing away Congresswomen, as happened in AZ?) and it is wonderful and free and the heroine has magically become bi (in the "has both a male and a female partner" sense) and there are hokey sex scenes galore.

Kudos to the author for, quite unexpectedly, treating a skeevy sexual situation with realism and sensitivity. Randomly, in the midst of all the rest of it. It's like he had a ten-second total comprehension of how patriarchy screws things up... and then forgot it again.