You can replace “experimental” with “political” and the previous sentence still works. I don’t read genre work for its literary merit–I prefer the books to be well-written, but I’ve found that the more experimental they get, the less I enjoy them. She had a few too many pretentious works to choose from and as a consequence, her anthos veered into the strongly literary as opposed to being SF collections of the kind I enjoy. I’m not a fan of her work in the sixties.
We’ve discussed her before many times, and even dedicated individual posts to two of her books ( here and here). Her selections and her own written intros were very self-consciously built to reflect the intellectual trends of the sixties. She was completely aligned with her decade, and probably wouldn’t have felt out of place at one of Warhol’s happenings. Judith Merril was probably the most notable science fiction anthologist of the sixties.
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