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?
@MLClark It might have been John Wyndham for me. The Chrysalids.
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?
@MLClark I tend toward historical whodunnits or fantasy comedy. So Pratchett and Gaiman, CJ Sansom (The Shardlake series) and Lindsay Davis' "Falco" novels.
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.