charlene ([info]charlie_ego) wrote,
@ 2009-04-24 15:36:00
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What they ought to have been called
Perhaps y'all have seen these (and here and here, though I think the first is the best) before, but I hadn't. Hysterically funny especially if you, like me, grew up reading bad 80's SF/fantasy novels (Dragonlance! Xanth! Valdemar! ...hey, why are you running away? Wait, did I actually admit to reading those?)

I'll add
Katherine Kerr: People Make the Same Dumb Mistakes When Reincarnated
Patricia McKillip: Riddles in the Welsh Tradition Kinda Suck
Diane Duane: The Door Into Alternative Lifestyles
Rosemary Kirstein: Wouldn't It Be Cool If People Revered Their Scientists?
Susan Cooper: The Search for Plot Coupons (okay, that one was not original)

(and yes, I adore McKillip and Cooper, and have a certain fondness for the others; I mock because I love!)

Any other suggestions? Especially for 80's stuff? (Most of the really bad 80's stuff I read has completely escaped my memory...)



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[info]charlie_ego
2009-04-29 10:35 pm UTC (link)
To get off the subject, because that's what I like to do, one book where I actually don't mind the woman becoming a mother and helping out her man is Meg Murry O'Keefe, because a) it's clear that she has a partnership with Calvin, b) it's her conscious choice, of which she has weighed the pros and cons (this distinguishes it from McCaffrey), c) it's not really clear she was particularly career-oriented before, d) it's not Twue Happiness but rather a decision that has tradeoffs, and e) it is so evidently NOT what L'Engle did herself, in her own happy marriage, that I feel like she can point out that people can make whatever choices they want.

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