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@drahsturgis@universeodon.comI’m really looking forward to this. #ScienceFiction #OnlineEvent #WomensSF #FeministSF #Books #Bookstodon #Feminism #SFF
Back to the Future Is Female! with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Pamela Sargent, Sheree Renée Thomas, and Lisa Yaszek
From Pulp Era pioneers to the radical innovators of the 1960s and ’70s, visionary women writers have been a transformative force in American science fiction. For Women’s History Month, acclaimed SF authors Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Pamela Sargent, and Sheree Renée Thomas join Lisa Yaszek, editor of LOA’s The Future Is Female!, for a conversation about the writers who smashed the genre’s gender barrier to create worlds and works that remain revolutionary.
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SciFi may become reality; its beginning to look like women are actually better suited for space travel. They are smaller and eat less, which conserves fuel, and they communicate and work better together than men. In addition:
"Fluid shifts" in the body cause problems in space. Fluid equalizes in 1G differently in the body than in the weightlessness of space, especially in the head. It has caused changes in astronaut's vision, sometimes permanently, but ...
"Only male astronauts have suffered damage to their eyes while in space, so looking at the slight differences in the head and neck veins of male and female astronauts might help scientists start to nail down the causes. If we can't (determine and adjust), we just might have to send an all-women crew to Mars." - Scott Kelly, Endurance
Ladies, leave us behind.