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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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Here's another woman who loves science fiction, and with a preference for hard SF at that. I suppose that a general statement could be thus: sci-fi that appeals to me, as a woman, is sci-fi which doesn't contain female characters who make me roll my eyes or, worse, huff in disgust and delete the sample. (I've got a number of other filters that are probably unrelated to gender, but that could be considered a rough starting point.)
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are exceptions to the eye-roll test, if the rest of the book is appealing enough. A recent example would be Poul Anderson's Tau Zero. I'd not bothered to look at the publication date before starting to read, but after a chapter or two I couldn't help but check. I wasn't surprised to see that it was 1970.