Advice to lit crits: there's a great book to be written about the literary & personal dialogue of 1960s feminist science fiction writers: Le Guin, Tiptree, Russ & (odd gay man out) Delany.
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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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I had no idea.
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Extended beyond their own circles too—Philip K. Dick finally realized he had a misogyny problem due to correspondence with Le Guin, which led directly to THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER.
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The last books of Le Guin's Earthsea series dramatically reflected an awakening regarding the female lead.
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