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"There are authors who stick to what they know, carving out careful niches for
themselves. And then there are the ones who obliterate boundaries.
Tanith Lee was in the second camp. An eclectic and prolific writer, she penned
more than 90 novels and hundreds of short stories, ranging from fantasy and
science fiction to horror, erotica, mysteries and historical fiction. She
gloriously reimagined classic myths and imbued her prose with a rich, poetic
lushness.
Lee was ahead of her time in so many ways. Her explorations of feminism and
gender issues, her complex queer characters and her mordant humor give her work
a fresh and vital feel. In “Don’t Bite the Sun” (1976), young people live in a
world where robots cater to their every whim. If they die, they can be
resurrected, and choose whether to inhabit a male or female body. This kind of
gender fluidity is natural in Lee’s fiction — not something to fear, as it is
in Robert Silverberg’s “Son of Man” (1971), where a 20th-century man catapulted
into the future is horrified when he temporarily changes genders. Instead, Lee
frames it as a natural part of her characters’ search for meaning and answers."
Via Steven Vaughan-Nichols, who wrote "I knew Tanith and loved her novels. I’m
so glad people are re-discovering her works. Read the article, give her a try,
there’s a lot to love here."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
