I love the books of Nevil Shute (not exactly sci fi - engineering fi maybe?). But the female characters in “On the Beach” could not have fewer dimensions than i

I love the books of Nevil Shute (not exactly sci fi - engineering fi maybe?). But the female characters in “On the Beach” could not have fewer dimensions than if they were massless points on a plane, and in one of his other books, the main character’s nickname is literally the n-word.