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Originally Posted by carld
That's really odd. I've always read Andre as Andrea and thought the writer was a woman. It never occurred to me that it the name was supposed to be male, though I see it obviously now. Amazing what blind spots you can discover.
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I always read her name as Andre, but never thought she was male. Of course, I discovered her work as a kid many years after she changed her name. SF was still considered largely for boys, but I don't recall feeling it odd that a woman had written some of the work I read.
In the late 60's, Playboy published an Ursula Leguin story, as by "U. K. Leguin", and did
not publish a picture of her in the contributor's page up front where they blurbed the authors in the issue. SF fans still snicker about that, because Playboy published work by women and men, and it was apparently the fact that the story was SF that made them decide to be coy about the author's gender.
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Dennis