Alteridades cotidianas: Especulaciones de género en la ciencia ficción española contemporánea
En 1995, Joanna Russ, una de las fguras más prominentes de la ciencia fcción contemporánea –como crítica y como autora– publicaba el importante volumen To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction. El volumen recopila diferentes ensayos escritos a lo largo de toda su carrera y se abre con un capítulo, “Towards an Aesthetics of Science Fiction”, que la autora apostilla con las siguientes palabras:
The following essay was written in 1975. Having read science fction since 1951 and having written (and published) since 1959 […] I had gotten very tired of the usual reaction such behavior got from academic literary critics. It still happens. Tell one of them that you write/read sf and the reaction is apt to be two steps backward, an instant judgement that you are a very strange person indeed, and a feeble (or hearty) “Oh, you mean that Buck Rogers stuff” (Russ, 1995: 3). […]
