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Old 09-19-2012, 05:43 PM   #125
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Originally Posted by Cyberman tM View Post
However, in his defense - you aren't going to see many strong females (apart perhaps from Dors Venabili?) or many relevant females at all because he does NOT want to display them all as "secretaries" and on the other hand didn't have much experience with women - so he didn't know how to write about them.
Dors wasn't introduced until a much later book; one written in the 1980s, I believe.

And don't tell me it's difficult to write strong female characters in the 1950s; Heinlein wrote several.
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