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[james_davis_nicoll]

Sample selected from here. In retrospect, picking 2011 because it offered fewer titles probably was a bad idea, given that most of these are not out yet. I am going from online descriptions. Corrections etc happily accepted.

That said, it may be that there's a discernible pattern here.

Title                                              Protagonist           Author
                                                    F     M               F  M

The Crippled God, Steven Erikson 	            X     X                  X 
Tiassa, Steven Brust 	                                  X                  X 
Up Against It,  M. J. Locke 	                    X     X
Leviathans of Jupiter, Ben Bova 	                  X                  X 
The Sea Thy Mistress, Elizabeth Bear 	                  X               X
The End of Eternity, Isaac Asimov 	                  X                  X
Central Park Knight,C. J. Henderson 	                  X                  X
Among Others Jo Walton                              X                     X 	
All the Lives He Led, Frederik Pohl 	                  X                  X
Hellhole, Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert 	          X                  X
The Gravity Pilot, M. M. Buckner 	                  X               X
Vortex,	Robert Charles Wilson 	                          X                  X
Hybrids, Whitley Strieber 	                       ?                     X 
Cryptum,  	Greg Bear                                 X                  X	                                                                       
Shadow Chaser 	Alexey Pehov 	                          X                  X
The Sorcerer's House, Gene Wolfe                          X                  X	
Demon Song, Cat Adams 	                            X                     X 
After the Golden Age, Carrie Vaughn 	            X                     X
The Unremembered, Peter Orullian 	                  X                  X
He Walked Among Us,Norman Spinrad 	                  X                  X
Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente 	            X                     X
Green, 	Jay Lake 	                            X                        X
Gods of Riverworld, Philip José Farmer 	                  X                  X   
The Lost Gate, Orson Scott Card 	                  X                  X
Legion, William Peter Blatty 	                          X                  X
The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson 	                          X                  X 
Dark Jenny, Alex Bledsoe 	                          X                  X
The Rise of the Iron Moon, Stephen Hunt 	          X                  X
Other Kingdoms, Richard Matheson 	                  X                  X
Lady-Protector, L. E. Modesitt, Jr. 	            X                        X
Home Fires, Gene Wolfe                                    X                  X 	
Puttering About in a Small Land, Philip K. Dick        ?                     X	 
I Don't Want to Kill You, Dan Wells 	                  X                  X     
Fuzzy Nation, John Scalzi 	                       ?                     X 
Iorich, Steven Brust 	                                  X                  X
Stonewielder, Ian C. Esslemont 	                          X                  X
An Embarrassment of Riches, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 	  X               X
Farlander, Col Buchanan 	                          X                  X
The Unincorporated War, Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin      ?                     X 	 
The Season of Passage, Christopher Pike 	          X                  X
Sati, Christopher Pike 	                               ?                     X 
Land of the Dead, Thomas Harlan                     X
Conan The Triumphant, Robert Jordan 	                  X                  X  
Farseed, Pamela Sargent 	                    X                     X 
A Mighty Fortress, David Weber 	                       ?  X                  X  
The Trade of Queens, Charles Stross 	            X                        X     
One Second After, William R. Forstchen 	                  X                  X 	
The Wanderer's Tale, David Bilsborough 	               ?                     X 
Jaclyn the Ripper, Karl Alexander 	                  X                  X 
Secret of the Dragon, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman        X               X  X 	
Watcher of the Dead, J. V. Jones 	            X     X               X   
People of the Longhouse, W. Michael Gear,      
 Kathleen O'Neal Gear 	                               ?                  X  X	
The Dark Zone, Dom Testa 	                    X  ?                     X    
Storm of Reckoning, Doranna Durgin 	            X                     X
Up Jim River, Michael Flynn                         X     X                  X                    
Arms-Commander, L. E. Modesitt, Jr. 	            X                        X 
Able One, Ben Bova 	                               ?                     X  
Shadow Prowler, Alexey Pehov 	                       ?                     X
The Stainless Steel Rat Returns,Harry Harrison 	          X                  X 
Black Blade Blues, J. A. Pitts 	                    X                     X  
Dead Space: Martyr, 	B. K. Evenson 	                  X                  X 
Dimiter, William Peter Blatty 	                          X                  X
Discord's Apple, Carrie Vaughn 	                    X                     X
As You Wish, Gabi Stevens 	                    X     X                  X 
The Hammer of Darkness,L. E. Modesitt, Jr. 	          X                  X
Brendan,  Morgan Llywelyn                                 X                  X 
Total                                              19    43              14 52  
Unmatched                                          15    38

Comments

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

My reaction to the first few chapters of that book was that someone needed to establish the Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award for authors who will never be allowed to write female characters again. Then I took it back to the library.