How can an author be more capable of imagining Martians than actual human women? This book was the most sexist thing I’ve ever read. With lots of racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and homophobia thrown in for good measure. The fact that this is considered a classic of the science fiction genre is insulting, disappointing, and yet not surprising. The only reason I finished this was so that I could be wholly knowledgeable in my hatred of it.