(urth) 'King Rat' and the abuse of women in Gene Wolfe's stories

[Lane Haygood]

No, my characters are not like me. I can only imagine what I would be like
as a literary character.  A bookish, somewhat awkward lawyer with a penchant
for self-deprecation and sarcasm?  Heaven save us from such characters.

LH

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>wrote:

> Okay, you don't write any of that. But are all your characters exactly
> like you? That's the logical consequence of not writing what you don't
> have "direct, subjective experience of."
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't write aliens or elves or dwarves or any of that.
> >
> > Although it does raise some questions. Is there a universal male or
> female experience across different species or worlds?
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Mar 9, 2011, at 10:58 AM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Lane Haygood wrote:
> >>> I tend to write (almost exclusively) male protagonists and narrators.
> >>> Because I am male.  I don't have any direct, subjective experience of
> being
> >>> female.
> >>
> >> But SF is all about writing the Other. If you can't write a female
> >> character, how can you write an alien?
> >>
> >> --
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