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Originally Posted by bashfulbanshee
I guess I'm not really judging it as a political book, but as a speculative fiction book with social commentary, and I'm assessing it in terms of how a reader in 2011 enjoys it now. I'm glad it was published and read, and I'm glad the little book stood up through the times, and I'm sure it was very relevant, but it just didn't age very well. I enjoyed it heartily, and I think other people will too so long as they keep historical context in mind. I admire Russ and I'll be looking to read her other fiction.
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I tend to agree, not with enjoying it which is after all a matter of taste but I too am glad it was published and read. Personal opinion about the prose aside the female man did matter, we are enriched by it and that is why I posted about her passing.
She mattered, her work matters, to just let it pass without comment is unthinkable to me.