I asked for blog post suggestions, willing to write about anything, and this topic was suggested by Tom Allman. When I did my Visible Women in Science Fiction Magazines project, I identified 143 unique female names, across 410 credits. I actually found that the drop off from “stars” with over Read more…
As a side-effect of my Women Writing as Women project, I’ve been reading a lot of old science fiction. There’s an editorial in the September, 1960 Galaxy Science Fiction where editor H. L. Gold asks readers to stop writing the same old bad things… that you can’t ‘drop’ bombs from Read more…
So I’ve been working on this huge and possibly insane data project, where I am trying to count all the women writing as women (psuedonym ignoring) over time in speculative fiction magazines. I started with Astounding / Analog, because I love them, and they’ve shown their excellent taste in buying Read more…
I’ve uploaded my slide presentation on the history of Science Fiction in Cleveland for your enjoyment. It was a great presentation, thank you to all the people who came to see it. Here as your reward is the 1955 WorldCon CleVention poster: by
When Franz Kafka met Felice Bauer and declared his love for her was as passionate and as authentic and as painful as all his attempts at pure existence, women were just discovering the brassier. It was the cool new life-hack for the Edwardian gal on the go. I find myself Read more…