5. Le Guin's anthropological imagination of course went hand in hand with her feminism, since part of what she imagined was societies without contemporary gender binary.
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16. Slightly tangential but Le Guin's anthropological science fiction was bastardized by Hollywood: both Return of the Jedi & Avatar are riffs on Le Guin's The Word For World Is Forest.
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18. To conclude, if we want to situate Le Guin historically, she's part of the great shift in s.f. where there is a move to genuinely imagine alien cultures and to imaginatively live inside them.
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Tiptree's youthful experiences of colonialism and the comparatively undestroyed biodiversity of central Africa are the major themes through which s/he filters her experiences in military intelligence.
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Her greatest successes are her treatments of men as incomprehensible and dangerous organisms- essentially ethnographies of the professional life of women in 20th C, and her personifications of the biology and priorities of non-human beings.
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J.G. Ballard?
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Very much part of this story, although with the twist of belonging to a dying empire.
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