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.
Vance is an interesting outlier. His fiction is very much at odds with his politics.
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Not really! His vision is really quite right-wing (I ended up re-reading a lot of Jack Vance because my dear departed beloved was a huge fan. To enjoy his sprightly colorful magic, you have to cringe away from some awful stuff)
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I'd agree with Lucy. Almost every society is based on a narrow pyramid of power, which Vance often makes explicit. when there is anything like a mass democracy, it's presented as an imbecilic mob. when there's anything like a communal society, it's corrupt and stratified.
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he, Anderson, and Herbert, and on the east coast, Silverberg, would disagree that they were the outliers -- and they'd be right, going by publication count.
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hell, the first three built boats together. (Herbert seems to have had a politically motivated falling out with the other two -- there's a visible coldness in Vance's autobiography.)
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