David Gerrold

David Gerrold (a friend of Tiptree) found Raccoona's early stories too light, too fluffy, too delicate.Le Guin thought Raccoona in general inferior to Tiptree.

Houston, Houston won the year's Nebula Best Novella award. Ursula K. Le Guin later said many women were amazed, delighted, jubilant, that a man could write such a story. But many other readers...