Linkage!
Towards a more positive future:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/05/2410281/solar-could-provide-one-third-of-the-western-uss-power-needs-by-2050/
Women and speculative fiction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_speculative_fiction
http://iansales.com/2013/07/10/the-list-100-great-science-fiction-stories-by-women/
The point of the exercise was to demonstrate that women have been writing good science fiction since the beginnings of the genre - a point signally ignored by the table of contents of the 1978 anthology 100 Great Science Fiction Short Stories, which contained only five stories by women. The first story on this list, for example, came third in a competition in Amazing Stories during the magazine’s second year of publication.
The list is chronological, and somebody should make about a dozen anthologies chronicling the short fiction of women in science fiction.
And bonus! He links to a source for the stories online if there is one! And note that around half were written in the last 20 years or so.
This is a great list, and from just scanning over it quickly- 40% of those stories listed are available online.
XX chromosome in Hollywood:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/the-sapphires-dvd-cover-controversy
The cover depicts the co-star as the star, and main characters (the girl group) as the background, and there is a petition to sign as well. It's a misleading, racist and from what I gather, not even very representative cover.
The movie covers the career of an all-aboriginal "girl" pop-singer group in Australia during the '60's. I've not seen it yet, but plan on doing so as soon as my queue lets me !
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/05/2410281/solar-could-provide-one-third-of-the-western-uss-power-needs-by-2050/
Women and speculative fiction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_speculative_fiction
http://iansales.com/2013/07/10/the-list-100-great-science-fiction-stories-by-women/
The point of the exercise was to demonstrate that women have been writing good science fiction since the beginnings of the genre - a point signally ignored by the table of contents of the 1978 anthology 100 Great Science Fiction Short Stories, which contained only five stories by women. The first story on this list, for example, came third in a competition in Amazing Stories during the magazine’s second year of publication.
The list is chronological, and somebody should make about a dozen anthologies chronicling the short fiction of women in science fiction.
And bonus! He links to a source for the stories online if there is one! And note that around half were written in the last 20 years or so.
This is a great list, and from just scanning over it quickly- 40% of those stories listed are available online.
XX chromosome in Hollywood:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/the-sapphires-dvd-cover-controversy
The cover depicts the co-star as the star, and main characters (the girl group) as the background, and there is a petition to sign as well. It's a misleading, racist and from what I gather, not even very representative cover.
The movie covers the career of an all-aboriginal "girl" pop-singer group in Australia during the '60's. I've not seen it yet, but plan on doing so as soon as my queue lets me !