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Butler. Bulter is such an important feminist and ethnic writer that her works often get put into that category rather than science fiction. The Parable of the Sower is such an important novel, easily as poignant and insightful as anything by more easily identified feminist and culturally applauded writers.

Then there are the writers who are significant to the 21st century. Perhaps these will be the new giants.

1) Orson Scott Card. Card has turned military science fiction on its ear. Where it often languished in the heavy hands of jingoistic writers like Heinlein, Card brought it into focus with a post-modern sentiment, never losing the value of entertainment.

2) William Gibson. Neuromancer took the science fiction world by storm. Other writers have engaged the internet and the psycic-intellect connection to technology, the intraweb, but Gibson made it into a Matrix and a real place.

3) C.J. Cherryh. Cherryh does wonderful explorations of alien cultural impingement. Her world creation is second to none, and she has peopled her various interconnected stories with real people, vivid and flawed.

Oh, there are any number of names I would love to add to this list. The universe of science fiction writing has expanded to fill the need. As the world continues to sink under the weight of our technology, and continues to wrestle with the complex social and cultural impact of our scientific advancements, the genre continues to produce very important writers who will not shrink from the daunting task of writing about how science is to fit in the definition of human.

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