And it's certainly speculative given the POV :) I think it belongs to the thread of feminist SF that speculates by pulling apart reader-presuppositions and turning around something the reader knows and has accepted, rather than using overtly skiffy tropes. (So like, KJF's What We Didn't Seee, Emshwiller's recent Strange Horizons story, etc)
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Date: 2009-10-09 10:43 pm (UTC)And it's certainly speculative given the POV :) I think it belongs to the thread of feminist SF that speculates by pulling apart reader-presuppositions and turning around something the reader knows and has accepted, rather than using overtly skiffy tropes. (So like, KJF's What We Didn't Seee, Emshwiller's recent Strange Horizons story, etc)