Nah, not an airhead -- just a victim of society (as are we all). As egalitarian as folks like you and I like to think we are, we have to actually take time to think to remember women (and especially non-white women) in SF.
My favorite Pat Murphy books are the sadly forgotten Nadia and (still) her first, The Shadow Hunter, but the point is I guess that she's written a lot of good stuff; you're right, though, that I question how "influential" even her best has been. Connie Willis, The Doomsday Book. Nancy Kress and her Beggars?
And, of course, you know who's going to be profoundly "influential" on the next generation of F/SF writers, is J.K. gawdhe'pus Rowling. I love her work but she's going to spawn eighteen gazillion horrid imitations, just like the Tolklones.
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My favorite Pat Murphy books are the sadly forgotten Nadia and (still) her first, The Shadow Hunter, but the point is I guess that she's written a lot of good stuff; you're right, though, that I question how "influential" even her best has been. Connie Willis, The Doomsday Book. Nancy Kress and her Beggars?
And, of course, you know who's going to be profoundly "influential" on the next generation of F/SF writers, is J.K. gawdhe'pus Rowling. I love her work but she's going to spawn eighteen gazillion horrid imitations, just like the Tolklones.