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Originally Posted by charlesatan
What are the elements do you think would appeal to women SF readers? And how are they different from men (if any)?
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Do we actually mean
science fiction, or
futuristic ? If the first, well there are woman scientists, so it's not a surprise that woman science fiction fans exist. Yet somehow technical occupations are not popular among women. I'm not qualified to say why. I have some suspicions, but that's stuff for another debate.
Oh, I just equated "technical" with "science". Chemistry, biology are not strictly technical but they are science. Sorry about that. For some reason there are many woman chemists. I have no idea why.
As for "futuristic", you can repaint almost any story to a futuristic setting. Doing it this way is to me like "jokes with X", where X can be anyone if you so wish. Where the joke's protagonist(?)'s gender, age, opinions etc are not relevant to the joke. So
I wouldn't classify that as science fiction.