Before 1970 or so, however, common wisdom has it that science fiction was busy growing up, slowly working through its rather embarrassing (masculine) puberty, slowly becoming the mature genre that ...

Sarah Lefanu. In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction. London: The Women's Press, 1988. 231pp. 5.95; Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989. $29.95 (cloth), $9.95 (paper) To the best ...

Credited with founding science fiction as a field, Shelley’s key contribution to the genre was Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. She completed the novel in 1817, when she was still a ...

we're focusing on a Black woman who paved the way for Black women's portrayal in science fiction: Nichelle Nichols. Published in 1995, Saturn’s Child is Nichelle Nichols’ debut novel, written with ...

"the saddest aspect of life right now is that science fiction gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." Black women have always gathered knowledge faster than society writ large ...

Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration. In fact, the celebrated science fiction author denounced the idea of waiting for one’s muse. “Habit is more dependable,” she advised.