Especially in 1970s, Le Guin & co were all reading each other, corresponding heavily & also responding responding to each others fiction with counter-fiction.
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For example, Delany's Trouble on Triton was written as a response to Le Guin's The Dispossessed, offering a different slant on sex & utopia.
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As last RT notes there's been work on this. But I still think there is room for focused work on 1960s/1970s cohort, written in manner of Menand's The Metaphysical Club.
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If I was going to nominate someone to write this, I'd say
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Better get to it right away, you don't know how much longer they will be around.
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and Butler? (from 71)
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Always room for more, but there've been a couple of good books on Tiptree that delve into her correspondence, including Julie Phillips' bio and Letters to Tiptree. Also Helen Merrick's Aqueduct Press book "The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of SF Feminisms."
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I didn't know the Merrick book -- will take a look.
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