I love, love, love all of Kushner (and Sherman), but their work is sadly lacking in technical hermaphroditism. Wait, am I missing anything? *thinks* ... I don't think I am, but I could be wrong. I am obviously stupid for having missed the Le Guin's, which I will be hunting down ASAP, and the Scott ... meh. I *want* to like her, but I think she may be too out-and-out SF in her writing style: whenever I try to read her, I find myself lurking in an old favorite instead.*

*I have a needs-to-be-worked-out theory about the tonality of SF vs. fantasy, and how examples of one written in the tone of the other will always appeal to the fan of the original genre, and not the genre the novel itself is set in: see, all the SF fans who *want* to like John Scalzi's writing, but pull up short on the fantasy-ish characterization.