![]() Leigh Brackett was a well-published and well-regarded pulp science fiction and film writer in the 1940s and 1950s. Leigh Brackett was one of the most prolific female authors working in science fiction prior to the New Wave. ![]() Moore.īut it astonishes me how much of Leigh Brackett‘s swashbuckling planetary science fiction is out of print. There were important female writers before the 1960s, of course, and contemporary publishers have done great work to bring the works of such sword-and-sorcery writers as C.L. Even more than the increasing prominence of female authors, gender became part of science fiction itself-compare the extremely dated traditional gender roles in Robert Heinlein’s “Red Planet” (1949) with his “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress” (1966). The late 1960s was when lots of female authors started breaking through, like Anne McCaffrey and James Tiptree, Jr. Ursula Le Guin was the first woman to win a Hugo for Best Novel in 1970 for The Left Hand of Darkness, and then female authors won the award 4 times in the following 10 years. ![]() At some point in the 1960s, science fiction finally realized how big and interesting a topic gender and social change could be. ![]()
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