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Ayn Rand isn't really studied if you do a philiosophy degree. She's more on the literature side of "philosophy" as opposed to belonging to the analytic tradition or whatever.
Philosophy fiction
Like the way science fiction isn't science, but less cool.
Yes, I suppose it's similar to Herman Hesse or maybe Borges... except those two are quite cool
borges sucks ass. his book of short stories was basically "yo dawg, this reminds of a story of when I was in a bar an the old guy told me of a story that when he was a boy in a cafe, an old guy told him the story of some ancient gaucho..."
People were easier to entertain back in the day. There is also a clear line between Borges and modern short story authors like Ted Chiang who take what he started and develop it further.
And her main contribution is that unextended phenomina can override physical reality (!?!?!)