I'll second the recommendation for Elizabeth Bear, and for Dust in particular if the interaction of gender and generation ships is of interest to you. (ISTR badoingdoing enjoyed them as well -- "They have a character like me in them!")
Without trying to apologize for or diminish the mistakes Bear has made, or for the blind spots that she has, I see her trying so damn hard to get stuff -- especially around gender and sexuality -- right. She succeeds much more often than not, for me at least, and I have learned more from her failures than from the vast majority of successes. I can't help but give her credit for that. (With the disclaimer that she's my favorite living SF writer, now a mentor, and... kind of a personal friend? So I'm not exactly unbiased.)
Modern long underwear is nothing like the nasty old waffle-weave stuff. It's silky-soft polypro; it's really nice.
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Without trying to apologize for or diminish the mistakes Bear has made, or for the blind spots that she has, I see her trying so damn hard to get stuff -- especially around gender and sexuality -- right. She succeeds much more often than not, for me at least, and I have learned more from her failures than from the vast majority of successes. I can't help but give her credit for that. (With the disclaimer that she's my favorite living SF writer, now a mentor, and... kind of a personal friend? So I'm not exactly unbiased.)
Modern long underwear is nothing like the nasty old waffle-weave stuff. It's silky-soft polypro; it's really nice.