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Thu, 9 August 2012

Anne McCaffrey and The Ship Who Sang - Five Feminist Science Fiction Novels

If you can't walk, see, move or breathe unaided, you can still fly through the galaxies as a brain ship, encased in titanium, and totally in charge of your own environment, serving the sentient world in intergalactic transport. You can be a hospital ship, a charter flight for actors, and a transporter of 30,000 babies in embryo. Anne McCaffrey's The Ship Who Sang is a pre-feminist novel about why women in space need never be confined except by their own bodies. For those who really want to fly.

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Comments[2]

Here's an absolutely unforgettable sci-fi novel with(I think) a strong female character, but it's not exactly a feminist novel. I think the characters in Patricia A. McKillip's Fool's Run are some of the most unforgettable I've ever read.
posted by: Moe Shinola on 2012-08-10 19:28:23
Have you ever read John Varley's Titan? That story is centered on the women characters. You might like it. It's been a long time since I read it, but my housemate has fond memories of it too.
posted by: Moe Shinola on 2012-08-10 17:06:21

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