You should read Birthday of the World by Le Guin. I would say Le Guin is the premier scifi writer who takes on issues of gender and sex, manipulates them in some way, and then sees how they play out in her Hainish cycle.
Birthday of the world is a collection of short stories exploring some of her more famous worlds.
An all or at least predominantly females society Also society where gender is only assumed while in heat. Also, a more “layered” gender or coupling (more like a 2x2 matrix, iirc it’s day/night one gender, and morning evening the other gender).
I feel like inspite of being one of America’s best sci-fi authirs leguin doesn’t get nearly enogh play.
I’ll give you a book recommendation back in return: Wild Spinning Girls by Carol Lovekin. This one stood out to me as specifically related to the society I am imagining due to the presence of ghosts and witchcraft and the gothic atmosphere.
It’s no surprise that Le Guin doesn’t get enough play. The literature market can be fickle due to the sheer size of it, the difficulty getting your work adapted into screen media (assuming one wants that), the amount of time and effort you need to spend on getting qualified to write and/or becoming experienced, the usual scarcity of human attention, etc. In fact, I think that last one is pretty significant. Only a tiny number of writers are going to hold the public attention at any one time.
You should read Birthday of the World by Le Guin. I would say Le Guin is the premier scifi writer who takes on issues of gender and sex, manipulates them in some way, and then sees how they play out in her Hainish cycle.
Birthday of the world is a collection of short stories exploring some of her more famous worlds.
An all or at least predominantly females society Also society where gender is only assumed while in heat. Also, a more “layered” gender or coupling (more like a 2x2 matrix, iirc it’s day/night one gender, and morning evening the other gender).
I feel like inspite of being one of America’s best sci-fi authirs leguin doesn’t get nearly enogh play.
Thanks, that’ll be my next read on the subject.
I’ll give you a book recommendation back in return: Wild Spinning Girls by Carol Lovekin. This one stood out to me as specifically related to the society I am imagining due to the presence of ghosts and witchcraft and the gothic atmosphere.
It’s no surprise that Le Guin doesn’t get enough play. The literature market can be fickle due to the sheer size of it, the difficulty getting your work adapted into screen media (assuming one wants that), the amount of time and effort you need to spend on getting qualified to write and/or becoming experienced, the usual scarcity of human attention, etc. In fact, I think that last one is pretty significant. Only a tiny number of writers are going to hold the public attention at any one time.
Thanks for the ideas, as well.