One thing I really, really liked about the 'Hospital Station' series when I first read them (a-many years ago) was that Murchison was promoted from nurse to doctor. At the time that was a very feminist thing for an sf author to do: I'm sure now it's considered very repressive, but considering that in the film '2001' there was a woman! in space! as a stewardess on the space station! (and that was all!) the treatment of Murchison was very, very subversive.
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Date: 2007-08-29 11:51 pm (UTC)b) Robin Mckinley! DWJ! James White!
One thing I really, really liked about the 'Hospital Station' series when I first read them (a-many years ago) was that Murchison was promoted from nurse to doctor. At the time that was a very feminist thing for an sf author to do: I'm sure now it's considered very repressive, but considering that in the film '2001' there was a woman! in space! as a stewardess on the space station! (and that was all!) the treatment of Murchison was very, very subversive.