• stinky@redlemmy.com
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    12 days ago

    i read Catwings when I was a kid and cried at the ending

    …and learned decades later she write science fiction. who is this woman.

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      12 days ago

      She’s one of the treasures of English literature.

      Her children’s books are as good as her science fiction themes calling out the fundamental problems we have to face as a civilization.

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        12 days ago

        …she invented the “ansible”, a communication tech achieving faster than light travel, which would later be used by Orson Scott Card and other science fiction authors, mumbles away with book