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Jul. 16th, 2007
To quote William Sanders:
There's been a lot of talk in the SF community - some of it rather intemperate, as always happens in such cases - about "gender bias" in the genre or in certain magazines, about the largely estrogen-challenged Hugo list, etc. You'd think that there would be a favorable reaction when a magazine comes out with an all-women's issue. Realistically, I don't expect it's going to happen, to any great extent - that's how it goes, people yell and scream about something and then when somebody does something about it they don't have a word to say - but somebody ought to say SOMETHING.
(seen via secritcrush)
I have something to say about this:
Part of the lack of public reaction to this might be related to the fact that Analog, that stodgiest of stodgy SF magazines, had their all-woman issue in June 1977.
[Added later]
Actually, because of the realities of publishing (and more to the point, the desire not to piss off readers by interrupting serials) there were a couple of betesticled ringers in there:
The Screwfly Solution • shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon ]
The Ax • shortfiction by Jayge Carr
Salamander • shortstory by Leigh Kennedy
Lord of All It Surveys • shortstory by Alison Tellure
Eyes of Amber • (1977) • novelette by Joan D. Vinge
After the Festival (Part 3 of 4) • serial by George R. R. Martin
"And Then There Were Nine..." • essay by Trudy E. Bell
Biolog: Trudy E. Bell • essay by Jay Kay Klein
Tunnel Visionaries • essay by Teri Rapoport
There's been a lot of talk in the SF community - some of it rather intemperate, as always happens in such cases - about "gender bias" in the genre or in certain magazines, about the largely estrogen-challenged Hugo list, etc. You'd think that there would be a favorable reaction when a magazine comes out with an all-women's issue. Realistically, I don't expect it's going to happen, to any great extent - that's how it goes, people yell and scream about something and then when somebody does something about it they don't have a word to say - but somebody ought to say SOMETHING.
(seen via secritcrush)
I have something to say about this:
Part of the lack of public reaction to this might be related to the fact that Analog, that stodgiest of stodgy SF magazines, had their all-woman issue in June 1977.
[Added later]
Actually, because of the realities of publishing (and more to the point, the desire not to piss off readers by interrupting serials) there were a couple of betesticled ringers in there:
The Screwfly Solution • shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon ]
The Ax • shortfiction by Jayge Carr
Salamander • shortstory by Leigh Kennedy
Lord of All It Surveys • shortstory by Alison Tellure
Eyes of Amber • (1977) • novelette by Joan D. Vinge
After the Festival (Part 3 of 4) • serial by George R. R. Martin
"And Then There Were Nine..." • essay by Trudy E. Bell
Biolog: Trudy E. Bell • essay by Jay Kay Klein
Tunnel Visionaries • essay by Teri Rapoport
To quote William Sanders:
There's been a lot of talk in the SF community - some of it rather intemperate, as always happens in such cases - about "gender bias" in the genre or in certain magazines, about the largely estrogen-challenged Hugo list, etc. You'd think that there would be a favorable reaction when a magazine comes out with an all-women's issue. Realistically, I don't expect it's going to happen, to any great extent - that's how it goes, people yell and scream about something and then when somebody does something about it they don't have a word to say - but somebody ought to say SOMETHING.
(seen via secritcrush)
I have something to say about this:
Part of the lack of public reaction to this might be related to the fact that Analog, that stodgiest of stodgy SF magazines, had their all-woman issue in June 1977.
[Added later]
Actually, because of the realities of publishing (and more to the point, the desire not to piss off readers by interrupting serials) there were a couple of betesticled ringers in there:
The Screwfly Solution • shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon ]
The Ax • shortfiction by Jayge Carr
Salamander • shortstory by Leigh Kennedy
Lord of All It Surveys • shortstory by Alison Tellure
Eyes of Amber • (1977) • novelette by Joan D. Vinge
After the Festival (Part 3 of 4) • serial by George R. R. Martin
"And Then There Were Nine..." • essay by Trudy E. Bell
Biolog: Trudy E. Bell • essay by Jay Kay Klein
Tunnel Visionaries • essay by Teri Rapoport
There's been a lot of talk in the SF community - some of it rather intemperate, as always happens in such cases - about "gender bias" in the genre or in certain magazines, about the largely estrogen-challenged Hugo list, etc. You'd think that there would be a favorable reaction when a magazine comes out with an all-women's issue. Realistically, I don't expect it's going to happen, to any great extent - that's how it goes, people yell and scream about something and then when somebody does something about it they don't have a word to say - but somebody ought to say SOMETHING.
(seen via secritcrush)
I have something to say about this:
Part of the lack of public reaction to this might be related to the fact that Analog, that stodgiest of stodgy SF magazines, had their all-woman issue in June 1977.
[Added later]
Actually, because of the realities of publishing (and more to the point, the desire not to piss off readers by interrupting serials) there were a couple of betesticled ringers in there:
The Screwfly Solution • shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon ]
The Ax • shortfiction by Jayge Carr
Salamander • shortstory by Leigh Kennedy
Lord of All It Surveys • shortstory by Alison Tellure
Eyes of Amber • (1977) • novelette by Joan D. Vinge
After the Festival (Part 3 of 4) • serial by George R. R. Martin
"And Then There Were Nine..." • essay by Trudy E. Bell
Biolog: Trudy E. Bell • essay by Jay Kay Klein
Tunnel Visionaries • essay by Teri Rapoport
To quote William Sanders:
There's been a lot of talk in the SF community - some of it rather intemperate, as always happens in such cases - about "gender bias" in the genre or in certain magazines, about the largely estrogen-challenged Hugo list, etc. You'd think that there would be a favorable reaction when a magazine comes out with an all-women's issue. Realistically, I don't expect it's going to happen, to any great extent - that's how it goes, people yell and scream about something and then when somebody does something about it they don't have a word to say - but somebody ought to say SOMETHING.
(seen via secritcrush)
I have something to say about this:
Part of the lack of public reaction to this might be related to the fact that Analog, that stodgiest of stodgy SF magazines, had their all-woman issue in June 1977.
[Added later]
Actually, because of the realities of publishing (and more to the point, the desire not to piss off readers by interrupting serials) there were a couple of betesticled ringers in there:
The Screwfly Solution • shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon ]
The Ax • shortfiction by Jayge Carr
Salamander • shortstory by Leigh Kennedy
Lord of All It Surveys • shortstory by Alison Tellure
Eyes of Amber • (1977) • novelette by Joan D. Vinge
After the Festival (Part 3 of 4) • serial by George R. R. Martin
"And Then There Were Nine..." • essay by Trudy E. Bell
Biolog: Trudy E. Bell • essay by Jay Kay Klein
Tunnel Visionaries • essay by Teri Rapoport
There's been a lot of talk in the SF community - some of it rather intemperate, as always happens in such cases - about "gender bias" in the genre or in certain magazines, about the largely estrogen-challenged Hugo list, etc. You'd think that there would be a favorable reaction when a magazine comes out with an all-women's issue. Realistically, I don't expect it's going to happen, to any great extent - that's how it goes, people yell and scream about something and then when somebody does something about it they don't have a word to say - but somebody ought to say SOMETHING.
(seen via secritcrush)
I have something to say about this:
Part of the lack of public reaction to this might be related to the fact that Analog, that stodgiest of stodgy SF magazines, had their all-woman issue in June 1977.
[Added later]
Actually, because of the realities of publishing (and more to the point, the desire not to piss off readers by interrupting serials) there were a couple of betesticled ringers in there:
The Screwfly Solution • shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon ]
The Ax • shortfiction by Jayge Carr
Salamander • shortstory by Leigh Kennedy
Lord of All It Surveys • shortstory by Alison Tellure
Eyes of Amber • (1977) • novelette by Joan D. Vinge
After the Festival (Part 3 of 4) • serial by George R. R. Martin
"And Then There Were Nine..." • essay by Trudy E. Bell
Biolog: Trudy E. Bell • essay by Jay Kay Klein
Tunnel Visionaries • essay by Teri Rapoport
The Dragon's Tales taunts me
Jul. 16th, 2007 08:57 pmBy pointing out this justification for space colonization. I think I might call it the "boiling frog" argument.
I will admit that I've see this idea before (and used it myself) but I question the timescale the author uses, which seems to rely on this
For the last 100 years, global energy consumption has been growing three percent per year, which is a little more than twice as fast as population growth and about 0.7 percent slower than global GDP growth.
It was my impression that per capita energy use rates in developed nations isn't growing all that fast.
The author also overlooks the possiblity that even though being able to escape a rapidly heating planet -- and I mean the kind of heat that leaves a planet sterile, not just shifts climate zones towards the poles -- would be handy, we might fail to develop the ability to do it in the time frame specified. I guess that bit would be the Green Lantern model of space development: all you need is the will.
[added later]
There's also the possibility that while we might decide to move our more heat-productive activities off-planet, that might not include moving us. Earth is after all the easiest planet for us to live on.
I will admit that I've see this idea before (and used it myself) but I question the timescale the author uses, which seems to rely on this
For the last 100 years, global energy consumption has been growing three percent per year, which is a little more than twice as fast as population growth and about 0.7 percent slower than global GDP growth.
It was my impression that per capita energy use rates in developed nations isn't growing all that fast.
The author also overlooks the possiblity that even though being able to escape a rapidly heating planet -- and I mean the kind of heat that leaves a planet sterile, not just shifts climate zones towards the poles -- would be handy, we might fail to develop the ability to do it in the time frame specified. I guess that bit would be the Green Lantern model of space development: all you need is the will.
[added later]
There's also the possibility that while we might decide to move our more heat-productive activities off-planet, that might not include moving us. Earth is after all the easiest planet for us to live on.
The Dragon's Tales taunts me
Jul. 16th, 2007 08:57 pmBy pointing out this justification for space colonization. I think I might call it the "boiling frog" argument.
I will admit that I've see this idea before (and used it myself) but I question the timescale the author uses, which seems to rely on this
For the last 100 years, global energy consumption has been growing three percent per year, which is a little more than twice as fast as population growth and about 0.7 percent slower than global GDP growth.
It was my impression that per capita energy use rates in developed nations isn't growing all that fast.
The author also overlooks the possiblity that even though being able to escape a rapidly heating planet -- and I mean the kind of heat that leaves a planet sterile, not just shifts climate zones towards the poles -- would be handy, we might fail to develop the ability to do it in the time frame specified. I guess that bit would be the Green Lantern model of space development: all you need is the will.
[added later]
There's also the possibility that while we might decide to move our more heat-productive activities off-planet, that might not include moving us. Earth is after all the easiest planet for us to live on.
I will admit that I've see this idea before (and used it myself) but I question the timescale the author uses, which seems to rely on this
For the last 100 years, global energy consumption has been growing three percent per year, which is a little more than twice as fast as population growth and about 0.7 percent slower than global GDP growth.
It was my impression that per capita energy use rates in developed nations isn't growing all that fast.
The author also overlooks the possiblity that even though being able to escape a rapidly heating planet -- and I mean the kind of heat that leaves a planet sterile, not just shifts climate zones towards the poles -- would be handy, we might fail to develop the ability to do it in the time frame specified. I guess that bit would be the Green Lantern model of space development: all you need is the will.
[added later]
There's also the possibility that while we might decide to move our more heat-productive activities off-planet, that might not include moving us. Earth is after all the easiest planet for us to live on.
The Dragon's Tales taunts me
Jul. 16th, 2007 08:57 pmBy pointing out this justification for space colonization. I think I might call it the "boiling frog" argument.
I will admit that I've see this idea before (and used it myself) but I question the timescale the author uses, which seems to rely on this
For the last 100 years, global energy consumption has been growing three percent per year, which is a little more than twice as fast as population growth and about 0.7 percent slower than global GDP growth.
It was my impression that per capita energy use rates in developed nations isn't growing all that fast.
The author also overlooks the possiblity that even though being able to escape a rapidly heating planet -- and I mean the kind of heat that leaves a planet sterile, not just shifts climate zones towards the poles -- would be handy, we might fail to develop the ability to do it in the time frame specified. I guess that bit would be the Green Lantern model of space development: all you need is the will.
[added later]
There's also the possibility that while we might decide to move our more heat-productive activities off-planet, that might not include moving us. Earth is after all the easiest planet for us to live on.
I will admit that I've see this idea before (and used it myself) but I question the timescale the author uses, which seems to rely on this
For the last 100 years, global energy consumption has been growing three percent per year, which is a little more than twice as fast as population growth and about 0.7 percent slower than global GDP growth.
It was my impression that per capita energy use rates in developed nations isn't growing all that fast.
The author also overlooks the possiblity that even though being able to escape a rapidly heating planet -- and I mean the kind of heat that leaves a planet sterile, not just shifts climate zones towards the poles -- would be handy, we might fail to develop the ability to do it in the time frame specified. I guess that bit would be the Green Lantern model of space development: all you need is the will.
[added later]
There's also the possibility that while we might decide to move our more heat-productive activities off-planet, that might not include moving us. Earth is after all the easiest planet for us to live on.
Poking through other people's blogs
Jul. 16th, 2007 10:49 pmI noticed a link to Selenian Boondocks on Monte Davis' LJ account and found this:
Why Explore? Because exploration powers inspiration, innovation, and discovery. Which as we already know from prior slides equals Future.
Why Explore? Because exploration powers inspiration, innovation, and discovery. Which as we already know from prior slides equals Future.
Poking through other people's blogs
Jul. 16th, 2007 10:49 pmI noticed a link to Selenian Boondocks on Monte Davis' LJ account and found this:
Why Explore? Because exploration powers inspiration, innovation, and discovery. Which as we already know from prior slides equals Future.
Why Explore? Because exploration powers inspiration, innovation, and discovery. Which as we already know from prior slides equals Future.
Poking through other people's blogs
Jul. 16th, 2007 10:49 pmI noticed a link to Selenian Boondocks on Monte Davis' LJ account and found this:
Why Explore? Because exploration powers inspiration, innovation, and discovery. Which as we already know from prior slides equals Future.
Why Explore? Because exploration powers inspiration, innovation, and discovery. Which as we already know from prior slides equals Future.