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AsaNisiMAGA 2 points ago +2 / -0

The book came out in 1985.

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lerm4comptroller 2 points ago +2 / -0

And there was a bad made-for-tv movie made about it a few years later that won all sorts of awards that no one cared about. No one watched it except me, I guess. Probably because it was based on such a shitty book. (Seriously, wtf is it with female "sci-fi" writers, that so few of them actually write sci-fi but instead do this weird lame fantasy shit cloaked in futuristic overtones? Do vaginas get in the way of good sci-fi or something?)

Worth noting, I watched that shit movie because my mom is a feminist and it was her way of teaching me about the horrors of pseudo-religious revolutions and how important it was for women to keep their right to show their glory--their face and hair--regardless of what the government or people around them said.

She now won't hang out with me, because I'm not going to hide my face in public. Life comes at you so fast.

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AsaNisiMAGA 1 point ago +1 / -0

I remember that show airing although I didn't watch it. Sorry about your mom, that sucks.

I always liked James Triptree Jr. And Ursula K. LeGuin. But today's waaaman scifi writers are mostly garbage. But then I don't care for the fantasy turn much of scifi lit has taken in recent decades in general.