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I wonder if he just assumed that his own bias would affect the gender of the characters or if that just wasn't a consideration. It would have been pretty cool if he had used gender-neutral names to the point where it was never clear, but also didn't matter anyway.
He almost does that. He uses a lot of made-up scifi names that aren't obviously gendered, but then point out that the character is male.
He does get a lot better over time, though.
I'll have to go back and read. The gender dynamics of competitive sci-fi literature would be a wild class.
Edit: I meant "comparative sci-fi literature," but I'm leaving the mistake because I think it's funnier, not unlike the grammar mistakes that I try to pass off as erudite subversion of trite conventions, not unlike this meandering, run-on sentence, and I stand by it.