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stonetools · 05-12-2012, 03:10 PM

This is kind of a strange request. SF started off as pretty much a sausage fest (authors and fans) and was such (with few exceptions) until the late 1960s . But things have changed an awful lot in the last 40-50 years, to the extent that I would say that modern SF is mostly woman-friendly. There are a lot of female writers and more important, editors out there .
I would just refer the person to the 2012 Hugo nominations list ( which includes quite a few women authors) . Four of six novella nominations appear to be women, for example.

05-12-2012, 03:10 PM	#83
stonetools Wizard Posts: 2,016 Karma: 2838487 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Washington, DC Device: Ipad, IPhone	This is kind of a strange request. SF started off as pretty much a sausage fest (authors and fans) and was such (with few exceptions) until the late 1960s . But things have changed an awful lot in the last 40-50 years, to the extent that I would say that modern SF is mostly woman-friendly. There are a lot of female writers and more important, editors out there . I would just refer the person to the 2012 Hugo nominations list ( which includes quite a few women authors) . Four of six novella nominations appear to be women, for example.