How do you go about produce female fictional character that have the same personal appeal and depth as the manly unity ? People deliberate this endlessly , and amount up with complicated arguments about one aspect or another . But Downbelow Station author C.J. Cherryh has a refreshfully simple result to this question .
Writer and even io9 contributor Andrew Liptakwas interviewing Cherryhfor Kirkus Reviews , and they had this interchange :
Your novels are illustrious for their female protagonists in a field that was considered male - dominated : how was this received by reader while they were being published ?
My goal is to make characters that men can distinguish with just the same as women identify with the male hoagie . Everybody wants to be a hero in what they ’re read .
In other news , just as female reader are dead capable of identifying with virile submarine sandwich , male lector can identify with distaff ones — if they ’re compelling and heroical enough . It ’s so elementary , it might just shape . [ Andrew LiptakviaSFSignal ]
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