Switching between Voyager & TOS rewatches, I find myself struck by how far gender discourse hadn't come in 30 years. *So* much reductive thinking: about women, about relationships, about masculinity.
But it's the writers, not the generation. (TNG & DS9 were between them, & much better!)
Every generation has had people who see us all as people... and people who can't imagine drama outside crude stereotypes.
Who was the first writer you remember really *getting* a different human point of view?
Such a haunting read! Great choice. Wyndham really captured the feeling of estranging oneself from fellow human beings - out of fear, and ignorance, and a desire for an impossible level of "order" in our great big wonderful mess of a world - and the consequences of such a small-minded POV.
What do you lean toward reading most these days?
Terrific fun! And hopefully still genres thriving with new offerings - though there are indeed a lot of splendid classics in the field to trip through, too.
@MLClark I tend toward historical whodunnits or fantasy comedy. So Pratchett and Gaiman, CJ Sansom (The Shardlake series) and Lindsay Davis' "Falco" novels.