Linda Nagata wrote some well-received short stories in the late 1980s, but she really caught the field’s attention with her Nanotech Succession series, which first appeared in 1995. In 2000, her novella “Goddesses” became the first story published online to…
Tag: Hard Science Fiction
“Even the Queen,” by Connie Willis
I’ll be honest: “Even the Queen” is not my favorite Connie Willis story, but it is an important Connie Willis story, written (according to Connie’s afterword in The Best of Connie Willis) because she was told at a feminist sf convention she doesn’t…
“At The Rialto,” by Connie Willis
I decided as I got into this process that I would definitely have work by certain authors. In my opinion, you can’t discuss science fiction, let alone women in science fiction, without dealing with its most popular authors. Sometimes that…
Contagion by Katherine MacLean
This may be the first story I’ve ever read by McLean. Published in 1950, the story feels remarkably current. I’m not sure how accurate the science is for our time, but it feels right. There are one or two dated…