[rock 1] Mil SF has bifurcated off (hmm, bifurcated is too two-dimensional..) into several different directions--there's the work by - e.g. David Drake and Mike M/o/s/c/o/e Shepherd which sometimes in some ways appears to be almost painfully having them attempt to get past their 1960s Vietnam era or so only-MEN-are-combatants-military service backgrounds; - there's the contingent who seem to want to completely excise the past 33 years during which women got into military flight training as members of the military and over time were acceded to migrate from being limited to non-combat transports planes into warbirds, during which the US Coast Guard Academy and the United States Military Academy and the Air Force Academy and the US Naval Academy and Texas A&M and eventually event the Citadel begrudgingly allowed women in as students/member of the cadet corps, started serving on sea duty, and generally went into all but a very few military career areas, and ascended the ranks of command up the chain of command ... that contingent includes apparently at least one viciously rancid misogynist type in both the person's writing and the person in person; - then there are the Others, who to varying degrees have accepted that contemporary experience/expectations-based-on-daily-life, are that women are astronauts, politicians, military officers, firefighters, police... Roland Green's series that started with Starcruiser Shenandoah was one in which there was a line something like "sometimes people chose roommates of the Interesting Sex, sometimes of the Uninteresting sex, and those with neither manners nor preference got transferred to the Army." The focus characters included four characters in a mixed gender wardroom... sexual orientation of the various characters were mostly hetero, but one of the more major characters in the second book was homosexual in a committed relationship, two of the four mentioned earlier there were indications were probably bisexual, etc. It was no big deal in the society except for minorities who were inclined to intolerance and not particularly appreciation by the majority.
Regarding f/f SF/F, it went out of style with the downplaying/social decline of feminism as issue the public wanted to hear about/pay attention to. "Nobody wants to read about girls doing it with girls anymore," said Lisa Barnett, late partner of and co-author with Melissa Scott, at a Boskone around 2005, and Melissa Scott expressed much the same opinion. They were collaborating on a series where two of the leads are a m/m couple. Melissa Scott did have a book out from Baen, Mighty Good Road where the leads were a f/f couple, however, that I think was the last book she wrote published by Baen. Her work's always had a lot of gender and gender role examination to it, including at least book with a spectrum of five, was it, genders, ranging from pure heterosexuals at both ends, to full functional hermaphrodite in the center.
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Mil SF has bifurcated off (hmm, bifurcated is too two-dimensional..) into several different directions--there's the work by
- e.g. David Drake and Mike M/o/s/c/o/e Shepherd which sometimes in some ways appears to be almost painfully having them attempt to get past their 1960s Vietnam era or so only-MEN-are-combatants-military service backgrounds;
- there's the contingent who seem to want to completely excise the past 33 years during which women got into military flight training as members of the military and over time were acceded to migrate from being limited to non-combat transports planes into warbirds, during which the US Coast Guard Academy and the United States Military Academy and the Air Force Academy and the US Naval Academy and Texas A&M and eventually event the Citadel begrudgingly allowed women in as students/member of the cadet corps, started serving on sea duty, and generally went into all but a very few military career areas, and ascended the ranks of command up the chain of command ... that contingent includes apparently at least one viciously rancid misogynist type in both the person's writing and the person in person;
- then there are the Others, who to varying degrees have accepted that contemporary experience/expectations-based-on-daily-life, are that women are astronauts, politicians, military officers, firefighters, police... Roland Green's series that started with Starcruiser Shenandoah was one in which there was a line something like "sometimes people chose roommates of the Interesting Sex, sometimes of the Uninteresting sex, and those with neither manners nor preference got transferred to the Army." The focus characters included four characters in a mixed gender wardroom... sexual orientation of the various characters were mostly hetero, but one of the more major characters in the second book was homosexual in a committed relationship, two of the four mentioned earlier there were indications were probably bisexual, etc. It was no big deal in the society except for minorities who were inclined to intolerance and not particularly appreciation by the majority.
Regarding f/f SF/F, it went out of style with the downplaying/social decline of feminism as issue the public wanted to hear about/pay attention to. "Nobody wants to read about girls doing it with girls anymore," said Lisa Barnett, late partner of and co-author with Melissa Scott, at a Boskone around 2005, and Melissa Scott expressed much the same opinion. They were collaborating on a series where two of the leads are a m/m couple. Melissa Scott did have a book out from Baen, Mighty Good Road where the leads were a f/f couple, however, that I think was the last book she wrote published by Baen. Her work's always had a lot of gender and gender role examination to it, including at least book with a spectrum of five, was it, genders, ranging from pure heterosexuals at both ends, to full functional hermaphrodite in the center.