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Three SF Books I've Read Recently That Had Gender-type Themes: Dragonflight, The Stepford Wives, and Conjure Wife

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Naomi K
Nov 06, 2012
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Dragonflight (1968) by Anne McCaffrey — I reread this one for a book discussion at the Baltimore Science Fiction Society's headquarters. This is the first in a series of novels by McCaffrey about a distant colony planet, named Pern, where people ride dragons that they use to fight these spores that periodically rain down and devastate the planet (devast…

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