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Writing Science Fiction #LikeAGirl

June 29, 2014 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

During the past few days, a couple of interesting stories crossed my screen and they are so perfectly related to my current review that they simply must be referenced. First came the #LikeAGirl campaign from Always, encouraging us to turn that pejorative expression into a compliment. Then came this story from NPR about women writers in science fiction: Women are Destroying Science Fiction and That’s OK — They Created It. As I have just finished Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic The Dispossessed, I must say […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, #LikeAGirl, anarchy, capitalism, ElCicco, fantasy, historical fiction, individualism, physics, political science fiction, ReadWomen2014, science fiction, social compact, The Dispossessed, ursula k le guin, Utopian fiction

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