Dammit, I want to read Bujold really badly (especially with your seal of approval!), but my pile of waiting-to-be-read books is getting big.
As for unproblematically bisexual characters, there are a couple in Melanie Rawn's Exiles series, including one who's in the second tier of main characters. Sexual politics are a bit different in that universe (it's a matriarchy, but not one that functions as an exact mirror of a patriarchy), but it's certainly not an everybody-is-bisexual type place. I think you'd really enjoy the books, but I recommend that you don't start reading them until she publishes the third one in the trilogy - I have literally been waiting ten years (and counting!) for that book.
Oh, and I spotted upthread that you gave up on Tamora Pierce around The Immortals. I really recommend reading her latest - it's a total change of pace for her, stylewise, and revolves around George Cooper's ancestor who was in the very early Tortal police. You're welcome to my copy if you'd like it :)
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on 2009-04-07 04:06 pm (UTC)As for unproblematically bisexual characters, there are a couple in Melanie Rawn's Exiles series, including one who's in the second tier of main characters. Sexual politics are a bit different in that universe (it's a matriarchy, but not one that functions as an exact mirror of a patriarchy), but it's certainly not an everybody-is-bisexual type place. I think you'd really enjoy the books, but I recommend that you don't start reading them until she publishes the third one in the trilogy - I have literally been waiting ten years (and counting!) for that book.
Oh, and I spotted upthread that you gave up on Tamora Pierce around The Immortals. I really recommend reading her latest - it's a total change of pace for her, stylewise, and revolves around George Cooper's ancestor who was in the very early Tortal police. You're welcome to my copy if you'd like it :)