science fiction was invented by a woman
don’t you ever fucking forget that
actually a teenage girl
a teenage girl who ran off with a married man
Actually, it was invented by a duchess quite some time before the teenage girl, and all her male contemporaries scorned her as ‘mad’. Margaret Cavendish, yo.
Support women writers in the speculative fiction genre: read my article on why we shouldn’t forget Margaret Cavendish when we praise Mary Shelley and buy the book it was published in: Speculative Fiction 2012: The best online reviews, essays and commentary