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solarbirdA. E. van Vogt's The Changeling is almost like a parody of sexism, except for the part where it's not!
Everybody who feels like criticising Heinlein for that should probably breeze through the first 20 pages or so of this thing to see what some contemporaries were writing. Or just, I dunno, punch yourself in the face a few times. Either would work.
I mean, damn.
(Caviat: I could only read 20 pages. Then I managed to skim about 20 more before t3h fl1ng. Maybe it was sekrit parody. But I'm pretty sure not.)
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Everybody who feels like criticising Heinlein for that should probably breeze through the first 20 pages or so of this thing to see what some contemporaries were writing. Or just, I dunno, punch yourself in the face a few times. Either would work.
I mean, damn.
(Caviat: I could only read 20 pages. Then I managed to skim about 20 more before t3h fl1ng. Maybe it was sekrit parody. But I'm pretty sure not.)
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
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Date: 2004-10-05 06:49 pm (UTC)Van Vogt was just extra-special crunchy; also a big fan of General Semantics, let's not forget.
(*) ...admittedly, it would be nice to be able to base this on more than just Children of The Lens which was decidedly wonky in other ways [so we're at the final stage of human genetic evolution and all the bad shit has been bred out, so what's next? Incest? This being the 1950s, he had to be very subtle about it, but it's there...])