I found this blog by Eleanor Arnason as I researched material for Women of Futures Past. Eleanor has kindly allowed me to share it here. The blog originally appeared in Strange Horizons, and articulates exactly how I felt as I…
A Podcast on the Women in SF (and other things)
Last night, I took 90 minutes to talk with Gary Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan on the Coode Street Podcast about my various projects, including indie publishing, the Retrieval Artist, and the women in science fiction material. Most of the time,…
Kate Wilhelm
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m doing some confirmation research on one of my women in sf projects. I looked up online information about Kate Wilhelm and discovered that her contributions to the field have been marginalized. She’s not listed as…
A Thank You
As I’m working on the various essays I need to write for some of the women in sf projects I’m doing, I’m double-checking facts and websites and other things. I mentioned in the introduction to this site (as well as…
Found Quotes 3
This really isn’t a quote, but a marketing point. If Ian and Betty Ballantine, who started Ballantine Books in the 1950s, and who published Mildred Clingerman’s A Cupful of Space believed that women didn’t read science fiction, they never would…
Birds Can’t Count by Mildred Clingerman
A companion story to “Minister Without Portfolio,” (listed below). A disgruntled housewife, reading about birds, makes a strange discovery with the help of her cat. The story’s witty and the payoff is such fun. I can’t say much more than…