Well, honestly, she is thinking that since she lived over half a century without becoming acquainted with many of the fantastic female authors who were publishing incredible works of science fiction during her best reading years, it's time she worked to help get the word out about women in science fiction.
Having spent the past couple of years mostly reading books by women, she has decided that something is awry in a universe or at least in a society in which lists of books to be read, best books, new books, and so forth, are almost always dominated by male authors. Why is that?
It's no secret that in the very distant past, relatively few authors were female. But, seriously, now, it's the twenty-first century and there is still an unearned promotion bonus of sorts for many writers who have the Y chromosome. The result of that is whole generations of women who grow up reading mostly books by men. I was one of those women. I don't want the younger generations to be those women any more.
Science fiction, perhaps more than any other genre, has been male dominated for many decades. Despite a few very productive and talented women over the years who've won Hugos or Nebulas, still the whole scene has been male dominated. Still, in the twenty-first century! Seriously?
So, over here in my little corner of the middle of flyover land in the USA, I will do my best to work for change in the reading habits of girls and women and to work for increasing the familiarity of girls and women with female writers of science fiction.
Perhaps no one will noticed but me. Whatever. I can only do it and see what happens, right?
So, here goes nothing...
Buckle up!
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