but i used to be sort of anti sci fi because it was associated (in my mind) with being overtly geeky. but then i found gibson and since then, stephenson. right now i'm reading my way through a lot of Richard Powers:
plowing the dark (read) goldbug variations (just started) galatea 2.2 (ordered)powers' work is not really sci fi, but is fiction about technologists and researchers, many of whom are female characters. i would say that in general, not couting my fanaticism about gibson and stephenson, i tend to read non sci fi fiction with lots of technology involved.
---fabienne Hanna M. Wallach wrote:
On Friday I met with two researchers working on "understanding gender issues in open source" as part of the FLOSSpols project. One of the (many) things we discussed was whether the women involved in free software projects tend to read as much science fiction as the men. (They're interested in this from a point of view of "entry into the free software world" and "identifying with the free software community and culture.") I thought it'd be interesting to ask on here -- do you read science fiction?