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From: ramsay@kcl-cs.UUCP (ZNAC440)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Asimov and women
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 11:03:36 EST
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>From: William LeFebvre 

>I would hardly call Asimov's character Susan Calvin a "cute and cuddly"
>woman!  So, at least if Asimov is a "former chauvinist" then it doesn't
>always carry over into his s.f.
>
>			William LeFebvre
>			Department of Computer Science
>			Rice University

This is a failing of many male sf-authors (probably including myself) that the
only way they can produce a strong female character is to create one that
behaves more like a man in a man's world. Admittedly, this does happen in
business, but it still remains very difficult to create a *female* character.
It takes a true genius like S. Delany.

				R.Ramsay