tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post1836341058770913329..comments2024-03-28T18:54:13.800-04:00Comments on alien romances: Worldbuilding From Reality Part 3: Creating Future HistoryRowena Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11839386556697211986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-69901042184549035682013-07-10T11:49:24.462-04:002013-07-10T11:49:24.462-04:00@Margaret Carter
Oh, I'm SURE "it occurre...@Margaret Carter<br />Oh, I'm SURE "it occurred" -- it may even have been written that women will be astronauts, but there was no way to sell that to the commercial market.<br /><br />In fact, I know it to be the case. Marion Zimmer Bradley wrote a woman-astronaut book and couldn't sell it (contemporary to when she wrote it). Later when women WERE included, it couldn't sell because the tech was all wrong and the plot depended on the old tech. That is more an illustration of the dangers of writing contemporary SF than of social-change issues.Jacqueline Lichtenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01613040740264804278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-8122681499979750572013-07-10T11:46:00.914-04:002013-07-10T11:46:00.914-04:00RE 1950s SF: It's interesting that so much of ...RE 1950s SF: It's interesting that so much of it strides boldly into the future with technology but portrays that future as sociologically identical to the 1950s. E.g., Heinlein's juveniles. The narrator of HAVE SPACE SUIT, WILL TRAVEL lives in an era when there's a colony on the moon. Yet he lives in a 1950s family and town. Even my idol, C. S. Lewis, when he wanted to satirize a public proposal that men on long space voyages to the moon or Mars should have women along for sexual service, wrote his satire within the paradigm that underlay the proposal. It doesn't seem to have occurred to either his target or himself that WOMEN would also be astronauts.<br />Margaret Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08293021955480708191noreply@blogger.com