notreallyhere@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoWho are the best female authors of all time?message-squaremessage-square105linkfedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down15file-text
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minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·2 days agoObviously, Mary Shelley. Created the most famous character of all time and the entire genre of science fiction while still a teenager. I’m a fan of Tanith Lee. She started weird fantasy and Neil Gaiman stole all his best ideas and most of his writing style from her. Karen Slaughter writes detective novels that make Jack Reacher look like a school boy. Tana French is Slaughter’s Irsih cousin. Joanna Russ was an out Lesbian back in the 1970s. “The Female Man” is still cutting edge.
minus-squareCatfish@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 days agoI’m curious about your Lee/gaiman idea. I can’t see it at all and Don’t Bite the Sun is my fav ever.
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoIn “Death’s Master” the Demon Prince refers to the Lord of Delusions as “uncousin.” In the ‘Sandman’ comics there are a lot of little cut-away stories, just like the tale of the teardrop necklace in “Night’s Master.”
minus-squareCatfish@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoAh! I’ve not read Sandman so utterly unaware
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 day agoThey put out the whole comic series in four big printed volumes after the TV show came out. The entire run of the comic. Get them from your local library; they are worth a read, and if you get them from the library he doesn’t get any more money.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoThere’s also always piracy arrrrr. But yes support your local library.
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoI meant printed volumes. Don’t steal books form the library.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoI meant digital volumes. I agree, support your library, do not steal from it.
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agonsfw They asked Stan Lee about digital comic books. He said comics are like boobs, he’d rather have one in his hand than on a screen.
minus-squareblackbrook@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-27 hours agoHaven’t read either of these two authors, but by “cut away stories” do you mean stories within the story? If so there is a long tradition of that, going back to the 1001 Arabian Nights, post modern authors like John Barth, etc.
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoIt doesn’t make a lot of sense to talk about the authors’ styles if you haven’t actually read them.
minus-squareblackbrook@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoThat is true, but I didn’t say anything about their styles.
Obviously, Mary Shelley. Created the most famous character of all time and the entire genre of science fiction while still a teenager.
I’m a fan of Tanith Lee. She started weird fantasy and Neil Gaiman stole all his best ideas and most of his writing style from her.
Karen Slaughter writes detective novels that make Jack Reacher look like a school boy.
Tana French is Slaughter’s Irsih cousin.
Joanna Russ was an out Lesbian back in the 1970s. “The Female Man” is still cutting edge.
I’m curious about your Lee/gaiman idea. I can’t see it at all and Don’t Bite the Sun is my fav ever.
In “Death’s Master” the Demon Prince refers to the Lord of Delusions as “uncousin.”
In the ‘Sandman’ comics there are a lot of little cut-away stories, just like the tale of the teardrop necklace in “Night’s Master.”
Ah! I’ve not read Sandman so utterly unaware
They put out the whole comic series in four big printed volumes after the TV show came out. The entire run of the comic.
Get them from your local library; they are worth a read, and if you get them from the library he doesn’t get any more money.
There’s also always piracy arrrrr.
But yes support your local library.
I meant printed volumes.
Don’t steal books form the library.
I meant digital volumes. I agree, support your library, do not steal from it.
nsfw
They asked Stan Lee about digital comic books.
He said comics are like boobs, he’d rather have one in his hand than on a screen.
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Thus proving my point.
Haven’t read either of these two authors, but by “cut away stories” do you mean stories within the story? If so there is a long tradition of that, going back to the 1001 Arabian Nights, post modern authors like John Barth, etc.
It doesn’t make a lot of sense to talk about the authors’ styles if you haven’t actually read them.
That is true, but I didn’t say anything about their styles.