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Title: Vonda McIntyre, science fiction author, is dead
Post by: MillCreek on April 06, 2019, 11:33:14 AM
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/seattles-vonda-mcintyre-70-champion-of-women-in-science-fiction-dies/

She wrote some good stuff starting back in the 70's, and then got into the Star Trek body of work.  Died at age 70 from pancreatic cancer.
Title: Re: Vonda McIntyre, science fiction author, is dead
Post by: TommyGunn on April 06, 2019, 11:43:46 AM
 :'(   
Title: Re: Vonda McIntyre, science fiction author, is dead
Post by: lee n. field on April 06, 2019, 01:13:04 PM
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“The modern feminist movement was just gaining steam,” McIntyre recalled in 2010 in an interview with Gizmodo. “And there was a lot of controversy in science fiction about whether women should have anything to do with science fiction at all, which I actually found quite hurtful.”

A handful of years older than me.  Maybe she remembers things differently than I do.
Title: Re: Vonda McIntyre, science fiction author, is dead
Post by: MillCreek on April 06, 2019, 03:47:04 PM
A handful of years older than me.  Maybe she remembers things differently than I do.

She probably does.  I remember very well reading the history of science fiction and for how long it was (in the United States anyway) pretty much an exclusive white male preserve.