Nov. 29th, 2019

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Good morning, here in my second post since 2017.

I have a conundrum. My Lovely Wife is teaching a college-level course on Science Fiction and has argued, successfully, that the "women in SF" portion of the class should use something OTHER than The Screwfly Solution as its sole example. As in, maybe the women-in-sf portion of the class shouldn't solely focus on a short story about civilisation-ending rape, mutilation, and murder.

But now she needs a better story for the discussion of women in SF. And the problem is, we need a story that:

1) features women
2) is Science Fiction, not fantasy
3) is short enough that first-year college students (18-19yo) will read it
4) is accessible to all the students easily and legally. Web link yes, public domain yes, torrent site or libgen no

My first thoughts were Bo Bolander and [personal profile] tkingfisher, but the issue is fantasy vs sci-fi. This is NOT a "spec-fic" course, so Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies and The Three Raptor Princesses And The Prince Who Was Made Of Meat and Jackalope Wives and The Tomato Thief are out.

There are a ton of good women-featuring longer works that are disqualifying because "longer". This needs to be a short story.

The Cold Equations is RIGHT OUT.


I have never been a fan of short stories. And the short stories I like are mostly not explicit sci-fi. So I'm a bad person to ask, but I know you, you lovely people. What is your favourite SCIENCE FICTION, SHORT STORY, FEATURING WOMEN, that you can PROVIDE A LINK TO FOR EVERYONE TO READ FREE OF CHARGE?

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