Per his wikipedia bibliography, A Wrinkle in the Skin came out in 1965, so written circa 1963-64 ... around the same time Heinlein was writing Farnham's Freehold.
Was it maybe Steam Engine Time only for rapey baby-eating misogyny and racism back then?
(Certainly it was that part of the 1960s when the New Wave started rolling and suddenly it was possible to talk about S*X in science fiction and an awful lot of adult men who really should have (charitably) known better started doing exactly that, and not in a good way.)
Oh, and Lord of the Flies came out in 1954. So maybe some in-genre dialog there?
PS: If you find this aspect of John Christopher's work distasteful, do not for the love of god and by god I mean Cthuhlu go anywhere near his contemporary, British SF writer Edmund Cooper. Who was really not on board with feminism at all and wanted everyone to know it, at least in his later (1960s onwards) books.
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Per his wikipedia bibliography, A Wrinkle in the Skin came out in 1965, so written circa 1963-64 ... around the same time Heinlein was writing Farnham's Freehold.
Was it maybe Steam Engine Time only for rapey baby-eating misogyny and racism back then?
(Certainly it was that part of the 1960s when the New Wave started rolling and suddenly it was possible to talk about S*X in science fiction and an awful lot of adult men who really should have (charitably) known better started doing exactly that, and not in a good way.)
Oh, and Lord of the Flies came out in 1954. So maybe some in-genre dialog there?
PS: If you find this aspect of John Christopher's work distasteful, do not for the love of god and by god I mean Cthuhlu go anywhere near his contemporary, British SF writer Edmund Cooper. Who was really not on board with feminism at all and wanted everyone to know it, at least in his later (1960s onwards) books.