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?
Degrees: Joan Slonczewski (http://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/slonc.htm) teaches molecular biology at Kenyon. Vonda McIntyre has a BS from UW (http://www.sff.net/people/Vonda/Vnm_bio.html) and did a year's grad work in genetics. I'd count bio/biochem as hard science, against archaeology/anthropology and other "social" sciences. Believe it or not, Katherine Kurtz (http://www.twbookmark.com/authors/64/163/) has a chemistry BS.
ISTR that Elizabeth Moon has a biology degree as well. Linda Nagata's degree is in zoology, which gets us out of hard sci, I think. Things that count even less for your question: Diane Duane studied astrophysics for a year or two before switching to nursing, and yhlee has a Bachelor's in math.
Does anyone know in which subject Pat Murphy and Pat Cadigan took their respective degrees?
Hard sf: I'm blanking. Would you count Kathleen Goonan, or is biotech-driven stuff that sounds like it wants to be the new cyberpunk (Paul McAuley's Fairyland comes to mind, too) not really hard sf?
*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.)
Syne Mitchell, a very good local hard sci-fi writer, and I believe her degree was in physics. Absolutely fabulous woman - she spoke to our writer's group last year, and her novels are wonderful!
A local writer here in the Pitsburgh area is L.A.Graf, who lives just across the back yard from my gf. L.A.Graf is a Pseudonym for two women; Karen Rose Cercone and Julia Ecklar. I believe that Julia is currently working on her Grad program, and I believe both of them have taught at universities locally.
L.A.Graf has written multiple Star Trek novels, at least one Alien Nation novel, and I know Julia has written several things herself; Regenesis among them.
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Do you know what the F stands for? ;)
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ISTR that Elizabeth Moon has a biology degree as well. Linda Nagata's degree is in zoology, which gets us out of hard sci, I think. Things that count even less for your question: Diane Duane studied astrophysics for a year or two before switching to nursing, and
Does anyone know in which subject Pat Murphy and Pat Cadigan took their respective degrees?
Hard sf: I'm blanking. Would you count Kathleen Goonan, or is biotech-driven stuff that sounds like it wants to be the new cyberpunk (Paul McAuley's Fairyland comes to mind, too) not really hard sf?
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(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.)
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It's always interesting to read backlog :)
L.A.Graf has written multiple Star Trek novels, at least one Alien Nation novel, and I know Julia has written several things herself; Regenesis among them.
Re: It's always interesting to read backlog :)