One last question for 2010
James Nicoll
"good old fashioned Girls* Building Space Infrastructure novels". Are there
any other obvious candidates for this sub-genre?
My flist on LJ suggested Orbital Resonance, "Delilah and the Space-Rigger",
and "The Menace from Earth". Anything else?
* Minors in both novels.
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Dorothy J Heydt
James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>In a previous post, I described The Next Continent and Rocket Girls as
>"good old fashioned Girls* Building Space Infrastructure novels". Are there
>any other obvious candidates for this sub-genre?
>
>My flist on LJ suggested Orbital Resonance, "Delilah and the Space-Rigger",
>and "The Menace from Earth". Anything else?
>
>* Minors in both novels.
Delilah was certainly not a minor. But perhaps I misunderstand
you.
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Howard Brazee
Heydt) wrote:
>>My flist on LJ suggested Orbital Resonance, "Delilah and the Space-Rigger",
>>and "The Menace from Earth". Anything else?
>>
>>* Minors in both novels.
>
>Delilah was certainly not a minor. But perhaps I misunderstand
>you.
At least, not during the novel.
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Derek Lyons
>In article <ifldip$bc$1...@panix3.panix.com>,
>James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>>In a previous post, I described The Next Continent and Rocket Girls as
>>"good old fashioned Girls* Building Space Infrastructure novels". Are there
>>any other obvious candidates for this sub-genre?
>>
>>My flist on LJ suggested Orbital Resonance, "Delilah and the Space-Rigger",
>>and "The Menace from Earth". Anything else?
>>
>>* Minors in both novels.
>
>Delilah was certainly not a minor.
Nor was it a novel nor was it the footnoted statement.
D.
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Jack Bohn
>In a previous post, I described The Next Continent and Rocket Girls as
>"good old fashioned Girls* Building Space Infrastructure novels". Are there
>any other obvious candidates for this sub-genre?
>
>My flist on LJ suggested Orbital Resonance, "Delilah and the Space-Rigger",
>and "The Menace from Earth". Anything else?
I don't exactly remember how much influence the "girl" had on space
infrastructure in _Star Dance_, but it feels more like what you're
asking for than the female test pilot who opened the solar system with
McAndrew's inventions in Charles Sheffield's series.
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Greg Goss
I'm not sure that pilots count for "infrastructure". That's why I
avoided mentioning Janeway.
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Robert Carnegie
> In a previous post, I described The Next Continent and Rocket Girls as
> "good old fashioned Girls* Building Space Infrastructure novels". Are there
> any other obvious candidates for this sub-genre?
>
> My flist on LJ suggested Orbital Resonance, "Delilah and the Space-Rigger",
> and "The Menace from Earth". Anything else?
>
> * Minors in both novels.
I think there's this kid in the _PS238_ web/printcomic who builds
stuff which may include her own space station... or having acquired
one.
Also, bottom left panel of page,
<http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/stories/minutemystery/1minute.php>
Also, The Girl in James Blish's novel _Welcome to Mars_ - an oft-used
title elsewhere, including reference to a candy company of that name,
not that that's relevant. The Boy builds an anti-gravity spaceship.
Then The Girl builds another one from his plans, and/or spares.
Also, possibly, The Girl in George O. Smith's "Lost Art", although
that's really about wireless energy transmission (but, on Mars -
suburban Marstown), and I forget how much, if any, of the "work" she's
doing, or whether it has inter-planetary applications subsequently.
Michael Stemper
>James Nicoll wrote:
>> In a previous post, I described The Next Continent and Rocket Girls as
>> "good old fashioned Girls* Building Space Infrastructure novels". Are there
>> any other obvious candidates for this sub-genre?
>> * Minors in both novels.
>Also, possibly, The Girl in George O. Smith's "Lost Art", although
>that's really about wireless energy transmission (but, on Mars -
>suburban Marstown), and I forget how much, if any, of the "work" she's
>doing, or whether it has inter-planetary applications subsequently.
Which "girl" would that be? The only female character that I can recall
from "Lost Art" is the wife of one of the protagonists.
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"Michael Stemper" <mste...@walkabout.empros.com> wrote in message
news:ig4unh$5el$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
> In article
> <17171200-fc88-418d...@l32g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
> Robert Carnegie <rja.ca...@excite.com> writes:
>>James Nicoll wrote:
>
>>> In a previous post, I described The Next Continent and Rocket Girls as
>>> "good old fashioned Girls* Building Space Infrastructure novels". Are
>>> there
>>> any other obvious candidates for this sub-genre?
>
>>> * Minors in both novels.
>
>>Also, possibly, The Girl in George O. Smith's "Lost Art", although
>>that's really about wireless energy transmission (but, on Mars -
>>suburban Marstown), and I forget how much, if any, of the "work" she's
>>doing, or whether it has inter-planetary applications subsequently.
>
> Which "girl" would that be? The only female character that I can recall
> from "Lost Art" is the wife of one of the protagonists.
"Lost Art" is the one in Boucher's Treasury? If so, even the wife is an
extremely minor character.
Bill Snyder
mste...@walkabout.empros.com (Michael Stemper) wrote:
>In article <17171200-fc88-418d...@l32g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, Robert Carnegie <rja.ca...@excite.com> writes:
>>James Nicoll wrote:
>
>>> In a previous post, I described The Next Continent and Rocket Girls as
>>> "good old fashioned Girls* Building Space Infrastructure novels". Are there
>>> any other obvious candidates for this sub-genre?
>
>>> * Minors in both novels.
>
>>Also, possibly, The Girl in George O. Smith's "Lost Art", although
>>that's really about wireless energy transmission (but, on Mars -
>>suburban Marstown), and I forget how much, if any, of the "work" she's
>>doing, or whether it has inter-planetary applications subsequently.
>
>Which "girl" would that be? The only female character that I can recall
>from "Lost Art" is the wife of one of the protagonists.
Not sister?
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Robert Carnegie
Or cousin or something, and/or girlfriend - there are the two guys -
anyway, she doesn't think that working on electrical stuff gives you
cooties, but she's somewhat more concerned about the escalating
property damage than the boys are. I think Smith wanted to portray a
future where every kid, boy or girl, was pretty comfortable with basic
physics of electricity, radio, etc. A sort of utopia for some
readers... not so much for home-owners. :-)
Michael Stemper
It sounds as if I need to re-read this, then. I had always thought
that the tinkerers were grown men.
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playful way they dole out immense amounts of property damage playing with
their new toy.