-- [ From: David Christenson * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --
> lg: David, I don't understand what you mean by treating her
protagonists badly,
> could you explain?
Poorly stated by me. I meant, as Sean discerned, that her protagonists
go through all kinds of grief, and the reader can't assume that their
heroic efforts will not be in vain.
> I think of Butler's work as important to feminist sf because her
female
> characters are so truely portrayed in full human complexity. Alot of
her work,
> such as Clay's Ark, presents a not-so-impossible-to-imagine near
future where
> our society as we know it collapses. IMHO, the female characters
don't
> necessarily have a feminist agenda: they are fighting to survive
horrendous
> conditions and remain fully human.
Thanks, this helps.
-- David Christenson - ldqt79a@prodigy.com"We live in Gothic times." - Angela Carter
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