Survivor Appendix E (5e) Authors- Ursula K. LeGWINS!

[Dausuul]

Kay, Guy Gavriel 23

Was this meant to be a downvote? Kay was at 22 before your vote, and it looks like you also upvoted Ursula Le Guin. Unless there were several votes someplace from people I have blocked...?

 

[akr71]

Was this meant to be a downvote? Kay was at 22 before your vote, and it looks like you also upvoted Ursula Le Guin. Unless there were several votes someplace from people I have blocked...?

Ya, I shouldn't post before coffee... edited my post to actually do math. Thx [MENTION=58197]Dausuul[/MENTION]

 

[mortwatcher]

Alexander, Lloyd 21
Cook, Glen 20
Jemisin, N.K. 14
Kay, Guy Gavriel 21
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 20
McKillip, Patricia 22
Peake, Mervyn 8
Pratchett, Terry 15
Wolfe, Gene 20

 

[Bradley Hindman]

Alexander, Lloyd 21
Cook, Glen 20 - 2 = 18
Jemisin, N.K. 14
Kay, Guy Gavriel 21
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 20
McKillip, Patricia 22
Peake, Mervyn 8
Pratchett, Terry 15 + 1 = 16
Wolfe, Gene 20

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

Alexander, Lloyd 21
Cook, Glen 18
Jemisin, N.K. 14
Kay, Guy Gavriel 21
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 20
McKillip, Patricia 20
Peake, Mervyn 8
Pratchett, Terry 16
Wolfe, Gene 21

 

[Parmandur]

Alexander, Lloyd 21
Cook, Glen 18
Jemisin, N.K. 14
Kay, Guy Gavriel 21
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 20
McKillip, Patricia 20
Peake, Mervyn 6
Pratchett, Terry 17
Wolfe, Gene 21

 

[Maxperson]

This is a lie from the abyssal realms of Orcus! I am NOT down-voting her because she has initials. Only because she uses them as her professional name rather than a real name. In 100 years they'll hate me for my initial-ist attitude!

Yes, but there will be someone that will have to hate you initially and the irony will destroy them.

 

[Maxperson]

Alexander, Lloyd 21
Cook, Glen 19
Jemisin, N.K. 14
Kay, Guy Gavriel 21
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 20
McKillip, Patricia 20
Peake, Mervyn 4 - He peaked early and it's been all downhill since.
Pratchett, Terry 17
Wolfe, Gene 21

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Alexander, Lloyd 21
Cook, Glen 19
Jemisin, N.K. 14
Kay, Guy Gavriel 19
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 20
McKillip, Patricia 20
Peake, Mervyn 4
Pratchett, Terry 18
Wolfe, Gene 21

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I mean, not to put too fine a point on it, but most of the feminist critiques I've read of Kay (one of the many things I check to figure out which author I've never heard of to downvote) regard him fairly positively, if a little heavy-handed and at times too prescriptive. Howard's place in that discourse should, on the other hand, be pretty well-known at this point. Also, do recognize that the typical Howard female protagonist is also a part of that adolescent male power fantasy. I mean, Red Nails isn't exactly billed as "Conan... but for the ladies."

I wouldn't have any problem recommending Red Nails - a strong allegory on the futility of war - to a feminist reading group, if they weren't aware of Howard's earlier work. And I think that is it, by the time he wrote Red Nails he had grown up a bit, and if he hadn't killed himself soon after might have been remembered rather differently.

And maybe that is also the case with Kay, I have only read his first book, maybe he grew up a bit too?