I'll give you the rest 'cause I haven't read them, but I've
read pretty much everything that Andre Norton has written and
she doesn't write like a man. I'm not saying she can't, but I
haven't read anything of hers that doesn't have a feminine
voice to it.
volente Deo,
Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
"The dead are heavy, after all."
-Will Christopher Baer, "Penny Dreadful"
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> From: Bob Toomey
> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 1:03 AM
>
> Among living writers, Larry McMurtry is no slouch in
the female voice
> department. And James Tiptree, Jr. passed for male
for years until her
> true identity as Alice Sheldon was finally
uncovered. Lee Hoffman, the
> western writer, never wrote from a female viewpoint,
and probably fooled
> most western fans into thinking she was male.
Likewise, Leigh Brackett,
> in her hardboiled mysteries and SF, wrote convincing
male viewpoint.
> Howard Hawks hired Brackett sight unseen to help
Faulkner on the
> screenplay for THE BIG SLEEP because, based on her
novel NO GOOD FROM A
> CORPSE, he thought she was a genuine tough guy.
Craig Rice wrote "like
> a man" and so does Andre Norton. And if you want to
read some tough SF,
> try ex-Marine Elizabeth Moon. And so on.
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