{"623126":{"#nid":"623126","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A Universe of One\u0027s Own","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communication Professor Lisa Yaszek\u0026#39;s science fiction\u0026nbsp;anthology \u003Cem\u003EThe Future is Female\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;was\u0026nbsp;reviewed by \u003Cem\u003EThe New York Review of Books in\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2019\/07\/18\/universe-of-ones-own-women-science-fiction\/\u0022\u003E\u0026quot;A Universe of One\u0026#39;s Own\u0026quot;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EJuly 18.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Write me a creature who thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man.\u0026rdquo; This was the challenge the influential science-fiction editor John Campbell famously issued his authors in the 1940s. It was aimed at producing aliens as fully formed as the interstellar human travelers who encounter them. Isaac Asimov thought the best example was a creature named Tweel from Stanley Weinbaum\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;A Martian Odyssey,\u0026rdquo; a story from 1934 that preceded the dictum. But the instruction also has the feel of a riddle, and neither Campbell nor Asimov considered its most obvious answer: a woman.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2019\/07\/18\/universe-of-ones-own-women-science-fiction\/\u0022\u003ERead the full article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-07-09 22:31:16","changed_gmt":"2019-07-09 22:31:16","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"master\u0027s in cybersecurity","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2019\/07\/18\/universe-of-ones-own-women-science-fiction\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"605632":{"id":"605632","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek","body":null,"created":"1524844207","gmt_created":"2018-04-27 15:50:07","changed":"1539181717","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:28:37","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication professor Lisa Yaszek","file":{"fid":"230934","name":"Lisa Yaszek.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":554289,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek.jpg?itok=cAtgXM02"}}},"media_ids":["605632"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11021","name":"Lisa Yaszek"},{"id":"179268","name":"The Future is Female"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}