women in science (fiction)

[ursula]

• Which female science fiction writers also have degrees in "hard" science? (Catherine Asaro comes to mind.)
  
• Which female science fiction writers write "hard" science fiction? (Obviously I have a mental list, but it may not be standard.)
  
• What about writers for shows like Star Trek, which I don't know anything about?
  
• I've heard claims that though 70% of all book buyers are female, science-fiction book buyers are predominantly male; can anyone support either of these claims?
  
• How much would it cost to bring, say, Maureen F. McHugh to Seattle?
  

Comments

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

*Catherine Asaro* has a science degree? Dear god, in *what*?

(I should mention that I only know her work from the occasional piece nominated for the Hugos; if you're on sfdt (which I suppose you're not), her novella is the only one I've read so far and oy. Highly generic romance novel with an outer space twist. And I *read* romance novels, even.)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Physics, I believe it is.

[ursula]

Physics and chemical physics, from Harvard (one's a master's, one a Ph.D.). She taught at U. Maryland for a while (and in fact her space drives are quite interesting; I read a bunch of her books before the gratuitousness of the beautiful men started getting to me.)

According to her official biography, she's also a ballerina, has several kids, and runs the SFWA.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

So she doesn't just *write* Mary Sues, she plays one in real life as well? Heh.

Yes, this is from like months ago. Inbox cleaning, man.