![]() ![]() Nothing you have read or seen has shaken your view of society or marriage or sex in the slightest. On television you have watched and enjoyed 1984, the Quatermass serials, A for Andromeda and its sequel The Andromeda Breakthrough. You have read and enjoyed the work of Wells, Wyndham and Hoyle, men who showed you the Earth threatened by Martians, airships, Triffids, “Bathies”, not forgetting an interstellar gas cloud. Let’s imagine for a minute that you are a man in your early 30s who is a science fiction “aficianado” (not a “fan,” much too vulgar). At the age of 65 this was Naomi’s first venture into science fiction: prior to this she was known for her many novels, travelogues and frank autobiography. ![]() One example is Memoirs of a Spaceman by Naomi Mitchison (1897 – 1999), published in 1962. But things began to change slowly in the 1960s. ![]() So far all the books and television series I have posted about since I started this blog have been written by men, which reflects the nature of the genre for much of the first half of the twentieth century. ![]() In 2017 I will be trying to post as much as possible about science fiction written by women. ![]()
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