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Your husband sez:
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One thing I particularly like about Disch is that he is equally critical of both left-wing and right-wing fantasies, and is uncomfortable with using SF as a vehicle for either one. The most well-known writer of SF using it as left-wing propaganda is famed feminist Ursula K. LeGuin, daughter of the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber who housed the Native American Ishi in his home for nearly 20 years as recounted in "Ishi: The Last of His Tribe". The most well-known writer of SF right-wing propaganda along the lines of Ayn Rand is Robert Heinlein. The latter has often, as Disch points out, "compelled the admiration not only of fandom but of critics who deplore his views and lament his influence". Disch is both admiring and highly critical of both LeGuin and Heinlein. This has a special personal irony for me. My friend, Jim Terman, and I often think very much alike. One of a few exceptions is that I have always more or less liked LeGuin and generally disliked Heinlein, and he is the other way around. Disch dislikes Heinlein for precisely the reasons I do, and dislikes LeGuin for precisely the reason friend Terman does."
So, John, according to your "soulmate", your Mary Sue is the product of a right-wing propagandist and hubby dislikes said propagandist. He also dislikes using science fiction as a vehicle for ideological propaganda - you know, like your beloved "Rev60" does.
Fitting.
