BP1 (Late by mistake)

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Her main argument in “American SF & the Other” would be that in the words of early socialist, women are a part of a necessary majority to societies and thus due to the current statuses and positions of females in modern societies there seems to be a contradiction to what we have as a modern and great society.

This is thoroughly explained by the women’s movement revealing the unfair depiction women have been classified as by male elitism.

However the question of “the other” is a philosophy that guesses whether someone different from someone else is alienated or not being that in science fiction this more literal yet the women in those older to more modern stories typically play a damsel in unbeknownst distress with the majority difference being the setting and the men who come to the rescue.

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For the primary argument in “What is Science Fiction”, the essay states that science fiction is carried by extrapolative plot points, devices and storytelling because of the massive amounts of influxes to creative writing by new writers over time, each asking and creating questions to what if something in the world changed that caused a cataclysmic or minimal change. 

Le Guin explains her reasoning that science fiction isn’t about predicting or foretelling a known or possible future but rather its the descriptive nature and world building of a fictional reality that gives the stories an interesting hook and the desired creative expression.