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From: John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Vintage Works of SF From Women Writers
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 21:20:32 -0600
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On Fri, 10 May 2024 21:12:25 -0600, John Savard
<quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:

>On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:14:20 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
>Nicoll) wrote:
>
>>Five Vintage Works of SF From Women Writers
>>
>>Women have written science fiction for as long as the field has 
>>existed; here are five examples from days of yore...
>
>While I won't argue your decision not to include it among the five
>examples examined in depth, since you make such a claim, and there
>might be some who would ignorantly question it... I'm surprised you
>did not substantiate your claim with at least a passing mention of
>_Frankenstein; or, The Modern Promethius_ by Mary Wollstonecraft
>Shelley.

I am also suitably surprised that Wilmar H. Shiras' first name was not
a pseudonym, and yet she was a woman. I would have thought that Wilmar
was a man's name.

And even if the story went in a very different direction, that does
not mean that some ideas could not have been stolen from it in the
making of the X-Men.

John Savard