# Fantasy Books with a Female Lead

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 26, 2014, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-books-with-a-female-lead/687031 "2014-04-26T07:30:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-books-with-a-female-lead/687031/67 "2014-05-01T03:35:28Z")

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Marion Zimmer Bradley died almost fifteen years ago. The child molester that she supposedly enabled died twenty-one years ago. You’re not in any way contributing to the support of a child molester if you buy her books. Do you refuse to buy a copy of _Beowulf_ because its author was a child molester? O.K., there’s no way to know if he was, but suppose he was. How would buying a copy of it be supporting child molestation?

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