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Tiptree was one of the greats. Those commenting on LeGuin's heavy-handed The Word for World is Forest might like Brightness Falls From the Air, when they get t
by kps 3y ago
Tiptree was one of the greats.
Those commenting on LeGuin's heavy-handed The Word for World is Forest might like Brightness Falls From the Air, when they get to the end. (Tiptree herself did have at least one Forest-grade cringy polemic short story, Morality Meat, paired against Phillip K Dick's The Pre-Persons. Maybe writers can't help themselves, but editors should know better.)
- the_af 3y agoHaven't read Morality Meat, but PKD's The Pre-persons isn't great either. I truly love PKD but it's one of his weakest, I-am-on-a-soapbox short stories. (In the notes for this story, PKD claims Joanna Russ offered to "beat him up" as a reaction, which in itself is an overreaction!)