history-of-sci-fi
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Warning: Today’s story uses the r-slur in what was at the time an approximately medical context, but not really, we all know what it means. As an aside, since I started this extremely sporadic series of reflections on early sci-fi by women, the direction chosen in part because I do try to stay in my…
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Warning: This story seethes with racism! It’s frankly fairly weird racism by modern standards, a burst of minstrel pseudo-dialect from a person described as “Sam, the milk-chocolate elevator boy” apropos of nothing, plus a heavy dose of orientalism at the end, but damn is it hot garbage. The first story in this series, for all…
