Nancy Springer wrote a lot of midlist fantasy in the eighties, some of which was generic, some of which was peculiar in interesting and disquieting ways, usually to do with gender, power, and the uncompromising harshness with which she followed through on her premises. None of these sold very well, I believe, which is why she is mostly (solely?) published as YA now.
I presume the YA novels feature fewer castrations and/or posthumous narrators than the adult ones. (I am not kidding. I think I stopped reading her when I hit the third book with a castration in it.)
I thought I heard someone say that truepenny was writing for the Jacqueline Carey market.
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I presume the YA novels feature fewer castrations and/or posthumous narrators than the adult ones. (I am not kidding. I think I stopped reading her when I hit the third book with a castration in it.)
I thought I heard someone say that truepenny was writing for the Jacqueline Carey market.
Oh, dear. Don't tell
A version of Kathryn Cramer's history of space opera is here (http://www.sfrevu.com/ISSUES/2003/0308/Space%20Opera%20Redefined/Review.htm).
And I'm very glad to hear about the Grimwood, because the SFSite reviews made me so curious it was getting hard to put off ordering them from the UK.