@Magisch I'm not sure if it's high fantasy.. but it's on a different planet and involves some mindreading so it's definitely some kind of fantasy... If you like female protagonists, the renunciates books of the darkover series might be a thing you could check out?
@terdon Rosemary Kirstein write The Steerswoman series... Juliet McKenna (from her blog): So I went looking for a heroine with a mind of her own, with a network of friends and a life of her own living in a world where wizards have to make a living as much as anyone else and have to deal with the suspicions of everyday folk as well as the local civil powers. If my heroine was going to go on a quest, it would not be her own choice and it would certainly not be the usual kind of adventure.
@Magisch read N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy. First because it is absolutely bloody brilliant, very well written and a completely new take on fantasy. And aso because the heroine is female and absolutely kickass too!
@terdon Chalion's been mentioned. I'm not sure if the Penric series of novella qualified -- Penric is male, but the thirteeen demons he houses within himself are all female...
@terdon I find the Penric novellas to be fun, but not so sure about her longer fantasy. Didn't really take to the Sharing Knife series. The Vorkosigan series are great SF -- I have a very soft spot for Cordelia. Expecially her 'shopping' habits.
@terdon That bit where kip trains to be an iron wolf (?) and flat out buys a slave to free her later. There's some mighty yuck internal dialogue in there
@Magisch hmm, it's been a while since I read the old ones but the slavery was handled quite well, I thought. Different characters had different takes, but there were certainly those who found the whole thing abhorrent.
@terdon I'm not really an author any more. When it cam down to it, I enjoyed the writing but not all the hoo-ha that went with publishing. My very first editor back in 1989 wanted me to be interviewed about hats (which I used to collect) for Vogue of all things! Utter nonsense.
@terdon There was also the fact that very few people can make a good living out of writing (Scalzi aside). I looked at what I could earn in IT, which I also enjoyed, and it was a fairly easy decision to mmake.
@ColeValleyGirl I think the thing I appreciate most about him is how hard he works to help uplift other authors. He's been a success and wants to help talented people have their own.
@JourneymanGeek The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, and Record of a Spaceborn Few. Not a series as such but a set of related novels.
as in prepare yourself to fall into a physics based rabbit hole you will emerge out of having spent days of your life researching physics concepts you will never use again
@ColeValleyGirl That's the problem with pay-to-play, regardless of what you (most people) are willing to pay there's always someone who will pay more, so you will always lose.
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I agree with you. When I was a lurker, I saw her intervening fairly often in the rougher parts of SO pre-resignation. She seemed to be performing well. Never visited Pets.SE, but eh.
@ColeValleyGirl "mismanaging" is the word I was looking for, for a long time... looks like it's like this EVERYWHERE, it's amazing. People in Israel hate the current PM for 10 years or so, but only now with the Corona mismanaging true riots begin.
what can I say, she's always been nice to me, got a little heated a little too often but was very competent handling flags and serial voting cases and was generally a nice person
@JourneymanGeek You guys did actually. :) It was quite tame here in comparison to Meta SO, and that's not a slight against the SO mods: There was simply so much to sift through. Cody Gray specifically appeared to be wading through the fires.
@terdon In this case I bought the whole trilogy in one edition. Opened book and, as usual, was started on the first page of actual text. Thought nothing of it. Then got to the acknowledgement section and saw it reference the actual first book. It started me at the beginning of the wrong book XD
@Magisch It's good that M-- brought that up, the cover-up, sweep under the rug (otherwise known as: 'forgive and forget') policy isn't one of my favorites. There are times, and things, that should be removed; but when it reduces the number of people who can still see it to a handful that invites the problems and complaints of the past year to boil up.
@Rob Yeah, except that M-- keeps insisting the cover-up isn't the point of the question, it's apparently a question asking for general standards on election content moderation ;)
@Rubiksmoose I've trolled trolls once or twice on Meta, but it was definitely when we had a bit of a thicker skin and social problems seemed far far away
@M.A.R. ohh. Never asked. But toilet rooms in the workplace have their own toilet paper. I bring my own to my desk as I need it constantly. (runny nose, you dirty mind. ;))
@Magisch semi-high-fantasy you might like based on that: Sufficiently Advanced Magic - the protagonist is a guy but very runs between a-sexual and bi throughout and his female cousin plays an increasingly important role as the series progresses
Note, I very much agree with you about that lack - my daughter is loving A Hat Full of Sky (esp. because the main character "is a girl!" <- to quote her :). Finding more books like this has been more difficult then it should be (ignoring the "finding books as good as Pratchett" which is a whole different thing ;) )
Also regarding all that: Mistborn (both old and new series) are some of my favorites
