The panel at Penguicon was a fascinating panel, even though there were a lot of tangents. *rummages through her notes* I didn't take quite as many as I would have liked, because the discussion got so fast and furious. What I really thought interesting was the bit (I think you said it? or was it Bear?) about women and women's choices not being the normal stuff of traditional heroic fantasy/sf. It has been very true for my experience of reading -- it seems to me that only a very few books in the genre actually have women who have experienced motherhood in the heroic role (Sarah Zettel's "Fool's War" and Bujold's "Paladin of Souls" are the two that leap to mind as having characters I could identify with, as a mother/older woman).
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Date: 2007-04-25 06:05 pm (UTC)