As pointed out in email: " There are girl cooties on my space ship–on women writing hard SF"

[james_davis_nicoll]

I really dislike playing the gender card, but when someone chucks a whole packet of cards in my face, it becomes harder to ignore.

OK, something happened and I’ll be really brief about it. The discussion went like this:

Me: I heard you are interested in hard SF
Publisher: yeah, we are, but… *looks uneasy*
Me: … if it’s written by a woman?
Publisher: yeah, I hate to say that, but yeah

Comments

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

She is indeed rocking the "exceptional woman" trope pretty hard.

Re: Your avatar: I just caught up on Oglaf last night! I'd left off at the "fucktopus" so I had a lot to read. NSFW but (or should I say and) an absolute joy of a comic.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Time for Oglaf to get a Hugo nomination?

I AM A DOCTOR

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

Yeessssss...

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Best fan artist, Loncon.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

+1.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. Oh good heavens. If we're used to seeing the annual Hugo flamefest now...

Yes, yes indeed. Let's try this.

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

Let me check.. yup! Got lots of marshmallows, chocolate bars, and graham crackers laid by. I'm ready!

[autopope.livejournal.com]

I'm up for it!

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

How would you nominate it? Single update? Everything so far? Everything from the appropriate year? Invent titles for the larger arcs?