Houston, Houston, do you read?
by James Tiptree, Jr. · first published 1996
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After a solar flare damages their ship, three astronauts are rescued by survivors of an Earth that has undergone dramatic change.
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…has to be prefaced with the effort to create more hacker women with killer creds and skills. The Etsy-Hacker School effort is a great step in this direction. On still another tangent, read the story Houston, Houston, Do You Read by James Tiptree Jr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_Houston,_Do_You_Read%3...) if you have the time, to see a provocative take on what technical and social developments a world of women will produce…
on “What Do Feminist Hackers Do?” ↗…have happened if Sheldon had not succumbed to depression and lived as long as Le Guin has, perhaps she would be as/more famous. If you have not done so, please read the stories The Screwfly Solution, Houston, Houston Do You Read and (my personal favorite) Love is the Plan the Plan is Death (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/love-is-the-plan-t...). They will stay with you for a long time. (from The Double Life of Alice…
on “Hopping Through Time with Ursula K. Le Guin” ↗…the the SF part is just an artifice to expose and explore aspects of humanity or some deep philosophical issue, e.g. Solaris, The Handmaid's Tale or the stories of James Tiptree Jr. (you've got to read "Houston, Houston Do You Read"). Works of the second type don't really need to push big ideas or ideologies. In fact, for most of these, the SF element is something that will be quickly introduced and got over with to come to meat…
on “Science Fiction, big ideas, ideology: what is to be done?” ↗…(http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/love-is-the-plan-t...), With Delicate Mad Hands is a close second. The Girl Who Was Plugged in influenced Neuromancer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17338035), Houston, Houston, Do You Read? is a classic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_Houston,_Do_You_Read%...) From a well-written Amazon review of her story collection: ""Love is the plan..." is my favorite science fiction short…
on “The most prescient science fiction author you aren’t reading” ↗> Nor would genetic clones create a very interesting society. One of the more interesting attempts at creating a human society made up of clones is the James Tiptree, Jr. story, "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%2C_Houston%2C_Do_You_R...
on “The marbled crayfish is a mutant species that clones itself” ↗A movie from Tiptree's story Houston, Houston, Do You Read would be exactly what you mention.
on “Swedish cinemas take aim at gender bias with Bechdel test rating” ↗How does one read these, without spending a fortune on the anthologies they appear in? I'd love to read "Houston, Houston, Do You Read", but don't want to spend $15 for the book containing it, full of stories I'm not currently interested in. Suggestions?
on “Science fiction stories shorter than novels” ↗Along those lines, James Tiptree Jr.'s short story "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution" concerns a plague causing males to kill all females. (Tiptree's "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" was already mentioned in the linked-to article.)
on “What’s With Sci-Fi’s Fixation on Single-Gendered Planets?” ↗