This is the photo the Guardian used to illustrate an article on how women are overlooked in SF

[james_davis_nicoll]

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[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Frankenstein's monster was assembled from various bits, so how do we know it's a he?

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

The first unit, Adam, was not merely given masculine pronouns but was sufficiently operationally male that he wanted a wife, and Dr. Frankenstein thought this was biologically practical...although it eventually occurred to him that building a wife out of spare parts might not be a good idea.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Early 19th knowledge of genetics betrayed him - if he'd known about DNA, he would be aware that if Adam and (Eve?) did manage to mate, they'd produce perfectly normal human brats.

(I once imagined a setting for a surviving race of Frankensteins: their kids are killed and revived at adolescence as a "rite of passage" not all of them make it through...)

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

He reportedly has an enormous schwanstucker.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Blücher!