What are you reading?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Just reread Foundation. The lack of female characters seems strange in my current perspective.

Asimov learned his trade in pulp fiction where the writers didn't know what to do with women (how to involve them into the plot) so he avoided female characters because he also didn't know how to handle them.

Here's an explanation from his memoirs:

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Then again, Heinlein got started in the pulps and didn’t avoid female characters. His early efforts were admittedly pretty clunky, but he got better as time went on.

Boru