Snowflake Challenge Day 6

[opensummer]

Day 6
In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Check out other people's posts. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

1. Book recs! I read far too quickly and am always on the hunt for more. I like pretty much all sci-fi and fantasy and will read just about anything if I'm told it's good. I'm trying to getting away from reading just straight white dudes books so if you have recs by POC, queer people, woman, or some intersection of the three I'd love to hear about them.

2. People to write more Katara centric fic. Katara was the first fictional character I highkey identified with and the one who's fanfic I am consistently the most disappointed in. While there's some really good shipping fic, I can never seem to find Fic where Katara is in character, interesting, and Doing It for Herself. such selfish prayers by andromeda3116 is the only one I can think of and I've been reading the fic since the gd ship wars. So recs for fic like this, and also people to write good Katara fic.

3. I wish people would leave more comments on my fic. It's very frustrating to post and then get no feedback whatsoever. Though I gotta say, moving away from tumblr to dreamwidth has helped that already. So i'm gonna be greedy and say even more comments? 

Comments

[sperrywink]

Her stuff tends to go out of stock in Powells, but for an older fantasy writer from the 1980s with great female lead characters, try Claudia J Edwards, in particular Taming the Forest King.

https://www.powells.com/SearchResults?keyword=Claudia+J+Edwards

(If you really want to read it, I can loan you my copy. :-) )

[mizface]

I'm on the last Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries, and LOVE them.

Tanya Huff has a really cool fantasy series that starts with Sing the Four Quarters (the second book has an incestual slant, so be aware). She also wrote excellent modern day vampire books (Blood Price is the first). Oh! And The Fire's Stone.

And Kim Harrison has an urban fantasy series set in the Cincinnati area (starts with Dead Witch Walking).

PN Elrod has also written some cool vampire novels, set in 1930s Chicago (Bloodlist is the first). I found her through fanfic - she wrote a crossover for this series and Quantum Leap.

[skytintedwater]

I just finished reading 'The Fifth Season' by N K Jemisin and it's amazing!

[catdetective]

Ooh, I always rec Ursula K. LeGuin to people looking for inclusive sci-fi/fantasy. Her worlds are never populated by just white people, and my particular fave is The Left Hand of Darkness, which is set on a planet where everyone is genderfluid/neutral. (I'm also always looking for queer sci-fi/fantasy so I haven't got a whole lot of recs but I love seeing more of it)

[spikedluv]

Maggie Steifvater's The Raven Cycle and Seanan McGuire's October Daye series. Both have women as the main (or one of the mains) character and gay pairings (though not right off the hop) The pairing in the October Daye series is kinda background, but still cute and very much there, as in they talk about it.

Seanan also wrote the Newsflesh series as Mira Grant. There are zombies, but it's not ~about the zombies. Also, adopted sibling incest if that is a no-no.

[glassesofjustice]

If you haven’t checked out An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, it’s a great debut SFF. CW for violence and sexual assault against women.

Octavia Butler, while well know, is a good choice if you haven’t read her.

If you want something light and fluffy, all the lesbian romanantic comedies by Clare Lydon (can’t go wrong with London Calling) are fab and I have both audio/and ebooks of hers available through my library/overdrive.

If you are okay with YA, my favorite book I read last year was We Are Okay by Nina LaCour. CW for minor character death. It was one of my only ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ reads last year.

[osidiano]

I really enjoyed Nnedi Okorafor's Binti series. It was neat to see sci-fi with a non-European slant. I haven't started Akata Witch or Who fears Death yet, since my library doesn't have them yet, but I have high hopes once they come in

[nocowardsoul]

Snowspelled and Spellswept by Stephanie Burgis, set in an alternate Regency England where women run the government and men do magic.

[kiki_eng]

Books! (Also I am apparently bad at descriptions today and banking on you having read a chunk already, a bit?)

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

The Imperial Radch Series by Ann Leckie - vidded by bironic here

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

I've enjoyed a couple of Zen Cho's short stories and she has a novel out that I just put a library hold on: Sorcerer to the Crown, and another coming out in March

[sunlit_stone]

Looks like a lot of my recs have been covered in other comments, but for sci fi by a woman I've got to recommend Lois McMaster Bujold! The Vorkosigan Saga is one of my favourite series, and also contains several of my favourite books :)

(I am not much of a Katara person--I mean, no, I like her a lot, I just don't feel very driven to read fic about her, if that makes sense. But my sister, who's a huge Zutarian, very much is, and has repeatedly expressed disappointment over Katara's characterization in fic. I asked her if she had any recs where "Katara is in character, interesting, and Doing It for Herself"/for fic like such selfish prayers. She said Forty Weeks wasn't bad? I can't second the recommendation, not having read it myself, but I thought I'd at least pass it along.)