Five Vintage Works of SF From Women Writers

[james_davis_nicoll]

Women have written science fiction for as long as the field has existed; here are five examples from days of yore...

Five Vintage Works of SF From Women Writers

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[james_davis_nicoll]

Tor dot com article 483, 2024 article 28.

17 articles to go to article 500

[mecurtin]

Is "Unwillingly to School" supposed to be a joke, or just a typo/thinko?

[(Anonymous)]

James reverted to the Shakespeare reference that Ashwell has riffing on, I suspect

[james_davis_nicoll]

I was talking about the short story but Tor used the cover of the later fix-up.

[(Anonymous)]

Odd. I'm on the Grand River hospital wifi, but when I click on the link to Reactor, the web nanny thinks the site is going to suck up my info, and won't let me through. I guess I'll read it later.

-Awesome Aud

[neowolf2]

The trope of aliens interbreeding with humans as noted in [3] is just a symptom of "let's move old fashioned adventure stories into space because the Earth is too explored". A bigger problem is the Fermi argument objecting to the existence of star-travelling aliens at all.

[carbonel]

I bought a copy of Unwillingly to Earth mostly because you'd recommended it a few times and it sounded interesting. Unfortunately, I find the dialect hard-going, so I've only read the first section so far. I do intend to go back to it, though, because I liked the story itself.