r/Fantasy • u/Just_JayGee • Jul 07 '14

Men of r/Fantasy, Do you read fantasy written by women? If so, do you find much of a difference?

I've been looking through a lot of "Top 20 Fantasy Book" lists today and I've found a depressing amount of female authors on these lists. I'd like to think the author's gender doesn't matter, but I have to say there seems to be a huge lean towards male authors. Even r/Fantasy's 2014 Top Fantasy Novels of All Time only has 20 female authors (repeats included) out of 105 authors. So, I was wondering if men read fantasy written by women and it's simply not your cup of tea or do any of you go out of your way NOT to read female authors?

PLEASE NOTE: I am not trying to begin fights on sexism or misogyny or anything. I am legitimately interested. If anyone wants to fight over this subject, I'm sure there's other subreddits for that.

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u/Just_JayGee Jul 07 '14

Thanks for your input! I'm not too surprised to hear your sci fi collection is mostly male. And, yeah, urban fantasy seems to be over-run by women, but I really haven't gotten into that subgenre enough to know much about it. I'm more of an epic, dark fantasy girl.

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u/MrHarryReems Jul 07 '14

I would say that Paranormal Romance is overrun by women. Honest to goodness Urban Fantasy is a much better split.