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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

TheGreatEvilKing posted:

People were asking about the horse genders earlier. I'm gonna post this and then close the loving book because holy poo poo, why?


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"I've never put any thought into my horse's gender-"


Not a horse expert, and haven't read the book so maybe this character is supposed to be oblivious, but my understanding is that one does actually need to pay attention to horse gender (for example: gelding). Judith Tarr's written a bunch of horse-related columns for Tor, here's a couple of relevant ones https://www.tor.com/2018/04/23/why-are-there-so-few-female-horses-in-speculative-fiction/ https://www.tor.com/2017/04/17/when-gender-bias-extends-to-the-animal-kingdom-c-s-lewis-the-horse-and-his-boy/ https://www.tor.com/2017/06/26/polygamous-space-horses-considering-equinoid-sexuality/

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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

TheGreatEvilKing posted:

Andross is an evil mastermind character written by someone who quit his job to write fantasy novels, and literally cites Dan loving Brown as an example of how to write well.

And also probably played too much Star Fox back in the 90s.

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