Books: can you recomend any Sci Fi with "Feeeeeeeemales" in it?

[zen5887]

Uhh, The Handmaid's Tale by Margret Atwood and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, maybe?

Both more a dystopian setting and less of a 'genre' feel but pretty science fiction, I think.

 

[Queen Michael]

Lady of Mazes by Karl Shroeder is very good sf, despite not being well-known.

 

[Entitled]

Worm [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-1-10/arc-1-gestation/1-01/] has a female protagonist and quite a lot of female characters. It starts out as a superhero genre setup, although I would recommend it as a straight sci-fi specifically, because there is quite a lot of thought put into the mechanics and logic of the whole. There is no blatant feminist message, but the author did a really good job at making it feel natural that half the superheroes just happen to be female.

I am compelled to second this because Worm is amazing and deserves to be read by more people.

Thirded, because Worm seems to be perfect for the purposes of Vault101 intending to break away from "respectable literature":

Worm is a web serial posted online for free, it's as indie and non-establishment as it gets, pretty much a fanfiction without the "fan" part. (oh, and it's finished already, so nor it's more like an extremely long novel series).

And yeah, it's absurdly good. Lots of deep characters, cleverly applied powers, a plot that doesn't rely on anyone being idiots, meaningful moral dilemmas, etc.

 

[SacremPyrobolum]

*See's "Feeeeeemales"*

Can I ask why you do this? I've been wondering.

Also, Ghost in the Shell, the manga, the two movies, and the anime tv series.

 

[Alterego-X]

*See's "Feeeeeemales"*

Can I ask why you do this? I've been wondering.

If you are asking about the phrase, it's probably a parody of the way women are addressed as by the Ferengi and by Internet brogressives.

 

[Vault101]

*See's "Feeeeeemales"*

Can I ask why you do this? I've been wondering.

as already said by someone else its a reference to the Ferengi from star trek

the most Alpha species in the galaxy

 

[wildstars]

There is a spin off of the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell called 'The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight' where the central character is a female corporate dictator trying to turn her world's society around in the midst of a interstellar revolution.

heh....you wouldn't guess that based on the cover..(well it looks like a two person deal)

[quote/]I've you haven't read the Lost Fleet series first, you'll be missing a lot context, and I highly recommend it as good scifi.

I REALLY dig the cover of the first one...it looks a little "bro-ish" but mabye....
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The covers for the Lost Fleet books have almost nothing to do with the content... I don't think the main character ever picks up, let alone uses an infantry weapon of any kind. Yet.. every cover has some dude, in battle armor, with a futuristic weapon of some sort in his hand(s). I didn't get the book for the cover, a friend of mine insisted that I must get the book and read it ASAP.

I can't believe I forgot about "Wool", "Shift", and "Dust" by Hugh Howey. I think its called the Silo Trilogy. It reminds me a lot of the "Fallout" series of games (before you get out of the vault). Its got an ensemble cast, but the main driving character is female.

as great as it is that he's found success his insistence that self publishing is going to be the downfall of eeeevil publishers is quite frankly annoying, he said that 99% of manuscripts submitted to agents get rejected...which is true but how many rejections are because theyre just plain terrible? they don't call it the "slushpile" for nothing

I read part of the first "MollyFyde" which was...ok but kind of stupid...but then I suspect it was for a reader younger than I

I've never read the MollyFyde, but I really liked the Silo books. I ended up playing Fallout 1-3 (again) after reading them. I think the first part of the first book is free on Amazon, can't hurt to take a look.