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Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 16:
Lin Anderson
Another talented Scottish writer, she has written a whole series of crime mysteries featuring her character Rhona MacLeod, a forensic scientist.
Clever, absorbing and fact-packed novels that are hard to put down. Driftnet was the first book in the series.
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Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 11:
Lisa Moore
I discovered this Canadian author via the Edinburgh Book Festival - what a find. I loved her novel "Alligator" - it's on my shelf for favourite books.
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Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 10:
Pippa Goldschmidt
Both an astronomer and a very gifted writer. She writes the cleanest, most exact prose I have ever encountered.
She used to live in Edinburgh, but I think she lives in Germany now?
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Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 9:
Pat Cadigan
Sometimes called the godmother of Cyberpunk, her writing (and editing!) is much broader than that. An influential workhorse!
I particularly enjoyed her novel "Mindplayers" and the novelisation she wrote of William Gibson's screenplay for Alien3.
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Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 19: Alice Thompson
Another of Edinburgh's fine authors. She has written 9 novels of which I have read three.
Definitely do read BURNT ISLAND, it is just amazing. If you are faint-hearted however, you may want to avoid The Book Collector which was utterly terrifying.
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