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Meta Monday 10: Why Women Should Read SFF

photo by John Le When asked why women should read science fiction and fantasy, Ursula K. LeGuin replied: Because it offers alternatives. What any group that is socially oppressed, or marginalized, or not in control, needs is to know that there are other ways to run a society, that the way this society is being

Meta Monday 2: Enlarging the Here and Now

Photo by Olivier Bareau “I don’t accept the judgement that in using images and metaphors of other worlds, space travel, the future, imagined technologies, societies, or beings, science fiction escapes from having human relevance to our lives…