Ah well ... I think this could have been condensed quite a bit and then it would have made a nice zine. From a book, however, I want a little more substance and a little less repetition. From a writer's perspective her advice could certainly be quite useful, but I find the set up of isolationist hero's journey vs connective heroine's journey frustratingly reductive. And neither of them inherently challenges the main frustration I often experience with the fiction I read: that systemic issues do not get challenged. They may pay lip service to equality and inclusion or whatever, but in the end, the way their stories play out, both the hero and the heroine usually preserve or restore a status quo and do nothing to address systemic issues that may have let to whatever crisis they were in, otherwise precipitated their journey or exasperated their struggle. Both of them may end up in a better and/or elevated place within that system, but they will rarely do anything to change it. And I do not just mean the big game political systems of SciFi and Fantasy but also traditional family structures, relationship hierarchies, work cultures and so on. You know, the kind of bedrock that political systems are build upon.