Tris are now household names means that women are gaining more and more visibility in the genre, or at least in the young adult section of the bookstore. Before this, however, it seemed that writers had to tread somewhat carefully when dealing with gender in the mostly male-dominated genre. Take, for example, two classic science fiction novels which themselves have been hailed as some of the most influential ever written: Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and William Gibson’s Neuromancer.…
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