On 10/23/2024 2:57 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
Five Formidable Female Characters From Classic SF
All authors are products of their time but results vary wildly.
https://reactormag.com/five-formidable-female-characters-from-classic-sf/
I may have read "Federation" by H. Beam Piper.
I would add "Candy Smith-Foster" in "Emergence" in 1984 by David Palmer
to this list.
https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-David-R-Palmer/dp/0553255193/
I would also add "Friday" in "Friday" in 1984 by Robert Heinlein.
And I would add "Hazel Meade" later "Hazel Stone" in "The Moon Is A
Harsh Mistress" in 1966 and "The Rolling Stones" in 1952 by Robert Heinlein. Also "Wyoming "Wyoh" Knott-Davis".
Lynn
Asimov; "The Ugly Little Boy"; 1958
Edith Fellowes is not only formidable, she's possibly the most *real* person >that Asimov ever portrayed.
On 10/23/24 13:27, Lynn McGuire wrote:
I would also add "Friday" in "Friday" in 1984 by Robert Heinlein.
And I would add "Hazel Meade" later "Hazel Stone" in "The Moon Is A
Harsh Mistress" in 1966 and "The Rolling Stones" in 1952 by Robert
Heinlein. Also "Wyoming "Wyoh" Knott-Davis".
On 10/23/24 13:27, Lynn McGuire wrote:
I would also add "Friday" in "Friday" in 1984 by Robert Heinlein.
And I would add "Hazel Meade" later "Hazel Stone" in "The Moon Is A
Harsh Mistress" in 1966 and "The Rolling Stones" in 1952 by Robert
Heinlein. Also "Wyoming "Wyoh" Knott-Davis".
The problem is that all of these characters are really the same person
in different situations with different names. All of Heinlein's women
are pretty much the same, whether they are old, young, human, alien, or computers.
On 23/10/2024 19.05, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
Quoting from Wikepedia:
Clarissa MacDougall. She is a beautiful, curvaceous, red-haired nurse,
who eventually becomes the first human female to receive her own Lens.
Their children, a boy and two pairs of fraternal twin sisters, grow up
to be the five Children of the Lens. In their breeding, "almost every
strain of weakness in humanity is finally removed". They are born
already possessing the powers taught to second-stage Lensmen.
Could you provide a specific page? I'd like to edit it to fix (at least)
the way that Clarrissa's name was spelled in the books. I'm also skeptical
of the idea that Kay/Kat and Cam/Con were fraternal rather than identical.
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