Re: [*FSFFU*] Social Fantasy, Was: SF/Sci-Fi

From: Laura Quilter (lquilter@IGC.APC.ORG)
Date: Mon Dec 01 1997 - 09:42:51 PST


I would love it if you could get me some information about that publisher
or any other work from them.

On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Petra Mayerhofer wrote:

> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:29:41 GMT+100
> From: Petra Mayerhofer <pm@IER.UNI-STUTTGART.DE>
> To: FEMINISTSF@listserv.uic.edu
> Subject: Re: [*FSFFU*] Social Fantasy, Was: SF/Sci-Fi
>
> Last week I saw in a bookstore that a small (German) publisher
> specialised on women's/feminist literature (Ariadne) has started a
> new series some time ago (their mystery novel series is well
> established by now). From the description I gather they intend to
> publish feminist SF and/or SF by female authors. They called the
> series 'Social Fantasy'. One can only speculate why they did not call
> it 'Science Fiction' (we use the English term in German) and why they
> used another English expression. Is 'Social Fantasy' by any chance
> an established expression, which I have simply missed?
>
> By the way, is the term 'Science Fiction' used in other languages,
> too, or have there been other names created for it? I suppose, the
> French have a French expression for SF.
>
> Petra
> ** Petra Mayerhofer ** pm@ier.uni-stuttgart.de **
>

Laura Quilter / lquilter@igc.apc.org

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