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If you can recommend more female authors on par with, say, JK Rowling, Fred Vargas, Neil Gaiman or Patrick Rothfuss, I'd be happy to read them. It's hard enough to find good books, worrying about the author's gender is very pointless. Especially since I am not interested in women's issues, which nobody should be obliged to be.

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I would highly recommend Lois McMaster Bujold. She is not hard sci fi though and the sci fi elements mostly act as a setting for the story.

Thanks, I will give her books a try!

Her Vorkosigan series is hard sci fi.

It helps to read those in order. She makes references to events five books back. You don't have to recognize them, but it helps.

Seconded. Her books are wonderful.

If you haven't read any Ursula K. LeGuin yet, she is amazing. Start with either The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, or The Wizard of Earthsea, depending on whether you are most interested in gender, societal systems, or wizards, respectively.

Thanks - I've read and liked Earthsea, but it might be time for another one.

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