On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Kate Bolin wrote:
> Getting students more and more online is the new buzz-word here at the
> Center for Research on Women. It's why we got a nifty grant to buy us a
> well-stocked computer lab (something that a techie like me drools over).
>
> I tend to think that part of the reason why more feminist science fiction
> isn't being created is because girls are still taught at an early age that
> technology is a "boys-only world". I mean, look at a lot of feminist
> science fiction that is out there. From what I've read, it's very
> low-tech. A lot of primitive colonies, a lot of ecologically-based
> "natural" habitats, etc.
> It's almost as if feminist science fiction writers are continuing the
> stereotype of technology being a male field by making their works as
> technologically incapable.
>
> Maybe it's just what I've seen. Our Center's library is notorious for
> rarely adding new books...
>
> kate Bolin
> Who's just looking for some good feminist cyberpunk
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Kate, have your library buy everything it can get its hands on by Joan
Slonczewski, Linda Nagata, Octavia Butler, Pat Cadigan, and Catherine
Asaro (not to mention C.J. Cherryh's Cyteen) and you'll never again think of
women as writing exclusively low-tech sf.
Mike Levy
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