feminism
If Mary Shelley Invented SF, Why Are So Few Female SF Writers Known?
By David Barnett Two centuries. Two hundred years. That’s how long we’ve had science fiction. From the birth of Frankenstein, to the death of Ursula K Le Guin. Two hundred years. This was originally meant to be just the story of Frankenstein, written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published on 1 January 1818. But this week, with […]
Read more "If Mary Shelley Invented SF, Why Are So Few Female SF Writers Known?"Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1970s, Part II
By James Davis Nicoll Once more into the past, this time armed with a more comprehensive list of women who debuted in the 1970s¹. In fact, my list has become long enough that I am going have to tackle the authors letter by letter, moving forward. In this case, I am looking at women authors […]
Read more "Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1970s, Part II"D&D is for Boys: Or, Why I’m Always the DM
It was 1984 when I received my first Dungeons & Dragons boxed set for my birthday. Veteran gamers will remember this red-book set with its dice that had to be coloured in with a crayon to see the numbers. I was so excited! I had heard about this game and as a fantasy/sci-fi reader, there […]
Read more "D&D is for Boys: Or, Why I’m Always the DM"The Hated Ones: We Just Wanna Have Fun
By Bluestockings As I settle in for a cup of tea and a good old fashion hate-watching of Fifty Shades of Grey, I’m absolutely shocked and appalled and genuinely disturbed by what’s happening in the gaming community just North of our town of Toronto. While I had no intention of getting involved, shit happens. Two […]
Read more "The Hated Ones: We Just Wanna Have Fun"Honey, Let the Real Gamers Play
By Misty Vander ‘Shh. Breathe.’ I exhaled a breath of stale air into the crowded lobby of the local hotel. My partner sensed my hesitation beside me and squeezed my hand encouragingly. With a small tug, he urged me onwards. “Let’s go, I don’t want to be around these neckbeards any longer than I have […]
Read more "Honey, Let the Real Gamers Play"Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1970s, A Through F
By James Davis Nicoll You may have been annoyed by recurrent comments from a certain surprisingly flammable Waterloo-region reviewer. He complains about the erasure from SF memory of women writing SF back in the 1970s—but has that reviewer ever bother to name names? Suggest books? I think not. It is time to confront the erasure directly. […]
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