Ammonite

Nicola Griffith is the most nominated and one of the winningest authors of the Lambda Literary Award. This book was her first win. I really liked her second win, Slow River. Ammonite, however, feels like her masterpiece. It was also her first novel. It felt carefully written, with wonderful prose and beautiful characterization. The premise is the basic trope of a planet of women, but it is done as if women were simply people, not less than men, not greater than men, simply people who have adapted to their environment. She comments on this in her afterward, that her goal was to write a book where the women's characters are as varied as men's in a typical mainstream science fiction novel. This book also won the Sideways Award and is considered a classic of science fiction about as well as by women.

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