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Over the last few years I've been reading quite a lot of SciFi, both contemporary & 'classic'/older books.
One of things that is really striking is that while authors have always been able to imagine new technologies & universes, and often even seen new forms of future society, few (until recently, and then mostly female writes) have been able to imagine any sort of revolution in sexual politics or gender relations....
From which you can draw your own conclusions.
@ChrisMayLA6
Vernor Vinge's Marooned in Realtime is one of the extremely few pre-2000 books written by a man that I can still read today without a hard cringe at the sexism. His A Fire Upon the Deep is also very good. Both of these are sequels, but I feel they're both best as standalones.
@temporal_spider @ChrisMayLA6 I'd suggest the two book compilation "Across Realtime" and treating it as one big story ...
@imbrium_photography @temporal_spider
very quickly found & ordered..... looking forward to it (although it'll join a large to read pile).