I think I preferred Raising the Stones over Sideshow, although both of those were good. Yes, she does have an obsession with the same issues.
Incidentally, is there any SF author out there these days other than Tepper who writes "real-world style" trans* characters (by "real-world" I mean not things like Culture citizens or the aliens from Left Hand of Darkness or things like that)? In particular in Beauty there's Bill Pictee who I seem to have some similarities with, I find the portrayal doesn't quite get to the heart of what Bill's inner feelings might be, but nevertheless it seems like a good description of how a sympathetic ciswoman might see such a person.
I should re-read Grass, and Sideshow, to see how I feel about the characters there these days.
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Date: 2011-03-25 03:05 pm (UTC)Incidentally, is there any SF author out there these days other than Tepper who writes "real-world style" trans* characters (by "real-world" I mean not things like Culture citizens or the aliens from Left Hand of Darkness or things like that)? In particular in Beauty there's Bill Pictee who I seem to have some similarities with, I find the portrayal doesn't quite get to the heart of what Bill's inner feelings might be, but nevertheless it seems like a good description of how a sympathetic ciswoman might see such a person.
I should re-read Grass, and Sideshow, to see how I feel about the characters there these days.