He is a sexist, condescending, cocky, arrogant prick. So yeah okay, now that I've gotten the new and updated review out of the way, here's the original one that has somehow managed to hang on and be the most well received review here. Just because IHNMAIMS has name brand recognition does not mean you need to read it or you Fail At Liking Sci Fi. Hell, there are plenty of works that DO have terrible social views that are still far more redeemable than this dreck. There are plenty of other scifi novels and collections that are just as if not more well regarded that do not have such heinous opinions about women in them. And the rest of the stories just treat women like utter shit. The title story shames it's lone female character for being raped and victimized by the other protagonists and another story focuses around the idea that a woman is pathetic because she "lets" one of her shipmates rape her. I don't care about how meaningful the social commentary in it is.
I don't care if you really liked the game. I don't care if it's considered a classic of scifi. Whaaaaat?) I am going to reduce the rating I gave it from three to two stars and put this big red disclaimer on here: Don't read this. So while I'm gonna leave this review as I wrote it, (It's seriously weird to me that this throwaway review I wrote years ago still gets likes and is apparently the highest rated review of this collection. So I decided I should come back to this and append this review with a disclaimer: I wrote this before A: coming out as trans and B: realizing that I don't have to defend a writer for the things they do well when their writing is overshadowed by disgusting and horribly backwards views regarding marginalized groups. It's been almost five years since I wrote this review and I've learned a lot about feminism and misogyny and what constitutes GOOD writing to me.
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