--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > salyavin, concerning women and science fiction, I'd say look to the female > brain chemistry and structure. Do you know that the corpus callosum is bigger > in woman than in men? I'd postulate that that makes women more whole brain, > not so dominated by the left brain, therefore more intuitive which to me > means that we combine left and right brain functions more easily, are not so > imprisoned by left brain abstracting.
It's bound to be something like that, something which is variable in both sexes. > As regards the theme you mention below, maybe it's not such a big deal for > women because they create the most uncontrollable thing on earth: other > people! > > > Are you familiar with male named SF writers who are actually women: Andrew > Norton, James Tiptree Jr. and Pat Murphy? That's a good idea, wonder if I'd be able to tell by reading them? > PS I like some SF and have a good friend who REALLY likes it. Wow, introduce me! ________________________________ > From: salyavin808 <fintlewoodlewix@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 6:13 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Chopra nothing without Maharishi > > > > Â > snip > > > Frankenstein is a great book by any standard but it's > the basis of most SF because it's about man's scientific > creations running out of control. > > This fear that we are unleashing something we can't > control when we manipulate nature or give our power to > our creations must be the biggest theme in the genre. > > I might go through that list and tick off the ones that > fit. >
