Tag: female characters

  • Review: Her Brother’s Keeper

    Review: Her Brother’s Keeper

    Don’t pick this book up and get past the first couple of chapters if it’s late and you’re trying to fall asleep. This is not the book to help you sleep. Mike Kupari’s first stand-alone novel, Her Brother’s Keeper, is a space opera, and it’s a good, solid read. Once you get past the first…

  • Gold-Plated Misogynist

    Gold-Plated Misogynist

    That’s what she said. It was in a comment thread online, after a friend of mine had shared a Robert A Heinlein quote. I looked at it, shook my head, and wondered when the man who was accused of being too pro-women in the era he wrote in, had become a woman-hater. It’s not true…

  • Damsels in Distress?

    Damsels in Distress?

    How about Damsels who can’t be bothered with Distress? Death before Whining!  This started out as a spark off Tom Knighton’s post at According to Hoyt the other day. He wrote: “I don’t recall exactly who, but one of the better known authors of our genre once claimed that all people like me wanted in…