![]() The excellent New York Times article from which I cribbed that story also explains that in the year Ursula K Le Guin became the first female author to win the Hugo award for the magnificent Left Hand of Darkness, Playboy ran one of her stories under the byline "UK Le Guin'' because, as a Playboy editor explained, "Many of our readers are frightened by stories by women authors.'' The same NYT article (written in 1982 by the SF writer Susan Schwartz) concludes: "It would be very nice if publishers would stop plastering book jackets with baroquely futuristic artillery, lecherous aliens and women in those large bronze bras." ![]() The fact that Sheldon pretended to be a man speaks volumes in itself. But if all that suggests a triumph of female writing, it also shows victory was hard won. ![]()
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