Re: (ReacTor) Five Vintage Works of SF From Women Writers

On Fri, 10 May 2024 21:12:25 -0600, John Savard
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On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:14:20 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:
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Five Vintage Works of SF From Women Writers
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Women have written science fiction for as long as the field has
existed; here are five examples from days of yore...

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While I won't argue your decision not to include it among the five
examples examined in depth, since you make such a claim, and there
might be some who would ignorantly question it... I'm surprised you
did not substantiate your claim with at least a passing mention of
_Frankenstein; or, The Modern Promethius_ by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.

I am also suitably surprised that Wilmar H. Shiras' first name was not
a pseudonym, and yet she was a woman. I would have thought that Wilmar
was a man's name.

And even if the story went in a very different direction, that does
not mean that some ideas could not have been stolen from it in the
making of the X-Men.

John Savard