/lit/ - Literature

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>What realm does she reach at the end of the first book? Foundation establishment? or Core formation?
Spirit Forging desu

On a serious note, I find it somewhat sad that good female science-fiction writers tend to write typical female stories in futuristic settings. Like, those stories are still great, engaging and well-written...but they are ultimately unremarkable. Most likely my bias as a man, but I find stories about more abstract ideas, goals and important issues to be not just more interesting, but objectively more valuable and significant that endless exploration of human relationships.
I guess my female counterpart would find this foolish, seeing those as detatched from reality and ulitmately worthless.

As that one anon joked about cultivation, it reminds me of the only Cultivation written by a woman that I've seen: Street Cultivation. Not a great story, painfuly average at times and I'd rate it 5.5 - 6 out of 10. What matters is the message. The entire message behind the trillogy was focused on a man reaching for money and power to get a better life, crawling out of poverty, but in fact according to the story (not said directly) he should have focused on finding a good girl to settle with, not fighting it out with mad cultivators or doing things greater than life.

This reinterpretation of Xianxia and implict critic on the genre by the female author seemed very representative of female persepctive on values and what's worth doing in life.
I might have gotten somewhat cynical after reading almost 1000 fantasy stories, but I swear I can detect whether something was written by a man or a woman with strange precision, based only on the covabulary, topics tackled and the framing of them. Women just straight-up don't consider the same things valuable and I doubt a woman could be capable of writing a fantasy story in the same way a man does.

Sorry for a random monologue, I'm going for a 12h work shift tomorrow and needed to let it out of me while I can.