things for which I blame Bear

[jazzfish]

"There's a balance to be struck between the rules of formal English and demotic conversational usage. As it happens, my particular balance is the correct one." --PNH, complaining about Bear's use of the construction "between she and I"

A post by truepenny on the practice of rereleasing bad fantasy as children's books with all the potentially offensive bits stripped out, which in the comments became a glorious free-for-all about the Green Dragonrider Problem. Followed up in matociquala's journal here, in which truepenny summarises the previous discussion: The way sex works in the weyrs is clearly institutionalized rape, and it doesn't matter whether you're a woman riding a gold dragon or a man riding a green. You're on the bottom, and you're going to like it.

And now I shall have to get the novel that sprang forth from those two discussions. Aggravatingly enough it isn't out yet. (Neither is Ha'Penny, the sequel to Farthing, so I can't give papersky any author-mojo for her part in the discussion either.)

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[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, I read Pern for the world-building, and the evolution of an agrarian society into a technological one. I never paid much attention to the sex...

... but now, this'll be on my mind if I read them again :(