#women in sci fi

[eightiesfan]

Monday Quiz !

[scifipinups]

Doctor! Doctor!

When it comes to parts for women in sci-fi, I may be starting to pick up on a pattern here...

Kyra Zagorsky as Dr Julia Walker in Helix

Gates McFadden as Dr Beverly Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Shannon Kenny as Dr Claire Keeply in The Invisible Man (2000)

Kari Matchett as Dr Mariel Underlay in Invasion (2005)

Kim Cattrall as Dr Sheila Moran in Invasion (1997)

Deanna Russo as Dr Sarah Graiman in Knight Rider (2008)

Carla Gugino as Dr Molly Anne Caffrey in Threshold

Maria del Mar, Alexandra Wilson, Gay Thomas Wilson as, respectively, Dr Haylen Breslauer, Dr Dru Breslauer and Dr Rema Cook in Mercy Point

Fiona Gaunt as Dr Helen Smith in Moonbase 3

Lee Meriwether as Dr Ann MacGregor in The Time Tunnel

Yvonne Craig as Dr Marjorie Bolan in Mars Needs Women

Diana Muldaur as Dr Katherine Pulaski in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Susannah Harker as Dr Angela Marsh in Ultraviolet

Lynda Mason Green as Dr Suzanne McCullough in War of the Worlds (1988)

Lois Chiles as Dr Holly Goodhead in Moonraker

Jess Bush and Dr Christine Chapel in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Alison Pill as Dr Agnes Jurati in Star Trek: Picard

Carmen du Sautoy as Dr Gentian Foster in Astronauts

Debra Messing as Dr Sloan Parker in Prey

Helen Shaver as Dr Rachel Corrigan in Poltergeist: The Legacy

Denise Richards as Dr Christmas Jones in The World is Not Enough

Hermione Norris as Dr Stella Isen in The Outcasts

Gretchen Corbett as Dr Maggie Sheridan in Jaws of Satan

Felicity Huffman as Dr Nancy Da Silva The X-Files 'Ice'

Louise Jameson as Dr Anne Reynolds in The Omega Factor

Vivian Wu as Dr Lu Wang in Away

Christina Wolf as Dr Cat Brandice in The Ark

Yvette Mimiuex as Dr Kate McCrae in The Black Hole

Saffron Burrows as Dr Susan McCallister in Deep Blue Sue

Kirstie Alley as Dr Susan Verner in Village of the Damned

And that's only the first 30! Stay tuned for the next installment!

[michelledrawz]

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[buffspacemilf]

Molly Parker as Maureen Robinson, in Lost In Space (2018) S1E3

[leannareneehieber]

Vermont! This weekend! I'm so thrilled to return to the Vermont Sci-Fi & Fantasy Expo! On both Saturday and Sunday, I'll be on the Women in Sci-Fi & Fantasy panel AND both days I'll discuss my acclaimed non-fiction, A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN: TRUE STORIES OF AMERICA'S GHOSTS, co-authored with Andrea Janes. I'll tell real life ghost stories and truly wild history, offering insights behind-the-scenes, what it's been like writing a heartfelt examination of women's history and ghost-lore, celebrating the importance of the ghost story itself! Come get a signed book and say hello! More info via the link!

[womeninfictionandirl]

Leela by Greg Moutafis

[empress-violetlight]

I would also recommend:

Anne McCaffrey - her Dragonriders of Pern series featured a variety of women in important roles, who often fought against the sexism of the pseudo-fantasy setting (notably Menolly) and in two separate cases in Pernese history, outright saved their world (Moreta and Lessa). Some disturbing elements due to the age of the series (the first short story, "Weyr Search" was written in 1967), but still revolutionary for its time, and became more progressive as time went on.

Mary Shelley - "Frankenstein" is the ur-text of modern science fiction. Enough said.

P.D. James - Mystery was her usual genre, but "The Children of Men" is one of the most frightening dystopias in sci-fi history, and her contribution cannot be discounted.

Margaret Atwood - "The Handmaid's Tale" is a classic of the speculative fiction/dystopia sub-genre for a reason. I'd also recommend her lesser known science fiction series, starting with "Oryx and Crake".

K.A. (Kristine) Applegate - "Animorphs" is so much deeper than its YA surface premise of "kids turn into animals to fight aliens" lets on. A expansive story on the effects of prolonged gurilla war on a group of child soldiers, with some of the most interesting, notably non-humanoid aliens in sci-fi. The Hunger Games wouldn't exist without Animorphs paving the way.

classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 here’s a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much it’s unreal

[humanoidhistory]

Alien production still.

[spirk-trek]

Georgia Schmidt, Carole Shelyne, Serena Sande, Meg Wyllie, & Sandra Lee Gimpel

A tribute to some lesser-known women of Star Trek :)

[nonolithic]

Fire Heart

[leeanimals]

This really beautifully voices Octavia Bulter's ability to weave a moving theme into a story, but you know what else we could be focusing on from this master of masters? Her ability to tell the future. I just read Parable Of The Sower, unknowingly picking it up the day the story starts, July 20, 2024.

We laud the Simpsons as being prophetic, but Butler's powers of foresight are nearly unmatched. She wrote Parable in the early 90s and was right on the money. I felt like I was on drugs when she was worldbuilding in the first half of her book because it felt less like speculative fiction and more like just regular fiction. The conservative presidential candidate that deregulates worker and environmental protections is literally named "Donner." It was the definition of "so good it's scary."

I love LeGuin as much as the next sf fan but I think we as a fandom should start focusing on the other titan of late 20th century women sci fi authors, Octavia Butler, as several of her most famous works have themes of "religion can be a catalyst for radical positive change as well as a source of comfort for people in a chaotic and threatening world"; "there may perhaps be significant drawbacks to the giant oppressive hivemind society"; and, of course, "that ancient power-hungry man's trauma is real but he also fucking sucks and you should kill him."

[jellisdraws]

Support Women in STEM 💉

Nev, for @headspace-hotel

[lesbinewren]

ik this is old news but it’s been on my mind lately. it was very incredibly alienating as a female star wars fan (and lesbian) when manny jacinto took his shirt off in the acolyte and a thousand people were like “FINALLY they’re making star wars for WOMEN not gross boy star wars!!!”

it was especially frustrating because i feel like so much time (like literal decades!!) was spent having to fight people to see “star wars has always been for girls too, it’s for everyone!” only for people to seemingly concede that actually, it WAS always for boys, but NOW we have star wars for girls because dark romance or whatever

i’m happy people who previously weren’t interested in star wars found something that appealed to them and drew them in. this is by no means a gatekeeping post saying it’s wrong to have gotten into the acolyte because of those things. it just really sucks to be someone who did always love star wars and had to spend a long time defending being a girl who likes star wars only for people who should be on the same side unwittingly play into the rhetoric that was used to try to exclude women

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)

[buffspacemilf]

Molly Parker as Maureen Robinson, in Lost In Space (2018) S1E3

[cultofthewyrm]

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