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Writing: Reading in Another Land
Recently — or perhaps not so recently — much has been made of women writing science fiction. Often it’s coupled with a complaint about “PC†behavior stifles creativity or how leftist writing “has no new ideas.â€
Hmm. Speaking as an unabashed leftist and someone lacking a penis, which may bias me somewhat, in my experience the opposite is true. I find much more interesting stuff in those who are willing to question the status quo, rather than simply write fiction using the same old stories, but this time with lasers! or infinity drives! or whatever. As Patty Jansen put it recently in her blog post, “There are girl cooties on my spaceship — on women writing hard SF,†“There are many younger readers out there who do not want their SF with sauce of sexist golden age nostalgia.â€
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Tagged david zindell, feminism, kelly link, patty jansen, remo the destroyer, seanan maguire, writing the other
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