Livre d'Or

I'm going to re-recomend Joan Slonczewski's work. She's a micro-biologist who writes sci-fiction. There is lots of cool biology in all of her books.

Have you read any Lisa Goldstein? You might especially like The Alchemist's Door which features John Dee and Rabbi Judah Loew. Her work is hard to describe but it all has strong feeling of the magic and mystery.

An author I really like who I have discovered in the last few years is Marie Brennan. Her latest book is called a Natural History of Dragons, which is about a women in a Victorian-ish society who wants to study dragons. One thing I really loved about it was the voice. It's her memoir written when she is quite a bit older, and well know thus more able to not conform.