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    Author Discussion with 2021 Eugie Award Winner, Elaine Cuyegkeng
    ( 2022-03-29) Cuyegkeng, Elaine ; Yaszek, Lisa
    Join us for a virtual author discussion with Elaine Cuyegkeng, the 2021 Eugie Award recipient for "The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter." Read Elaine's work in "Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women" edited by Lee Murray and Geneve Flynn.
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    What Science Fiction Got Wrong...and Right! (and how you make the future)
    ( 2021-10-14) Marcus, Gideon ; Yaszek, Lisa
    In the 1950s and '60s, scientists and engineers were hailed as saints of progress. People believed that technology would solve all of the world's problems. But the science fiction and mainstream prognosticators of the same era also foresaw technology causing the world's imminent end: by nuclear war, overpopulation, global unemployment, environmental catastrophe ... and plague. How accurate were the futurists and science fictioneers of the last century? What predictions didn't materialize, and what visions may yet come true? And do we, today, have the ability to change tomorrow? This event is part of the 50 Years of Science Fiction Celebration at Georgia Tech.
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    The Eugie Award Symposium for Speculative Fiction
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-10-02) Burke, Chesya ; Carroll, Siobhan ; Chan, L. ; Dudak, Andy ; Dyer, Thoraiya ; Foster, Matthew M. ; Hofelich, Alex ; Stueart, Jerome ; Weiss, Amanda ; Yaszek, Lisa
    The Eugie Award Symposium for Speculative Fiction brings together science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors, editors, and scholars from around the world. The Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction (or Eugie Award), honors stories that are beautiful, thoughtful, passionate, and that change both individual readers and the field of speculative fiction as a whole. This annual award is presented at Dragon Con, the nation’s largest fan-run convention.
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    Not Lost in Space: Science and Technology as Women's Work in Postwar Science Fiction
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005-09-27) Yaszek, Lisa
    The new technologies that proliferated after World War II — including everything from atomic bombs and communication satellites to deep freezers and automatic coffee makers — radically transformed American thinking about science, society, and gender. In the first study of its kind, Professor Lisa Yaszek explains how women writing for the postwar science fiction community created the earliest body of literature to systematically explore these transformations. Yaszek begins by reviewing how cold war domestic industrialization fostered new notions of women’s work as the technoscientific management of home and family. At the same time, she contends, anxiety about early Soviet successes in the space race led to a growing conviction that American women should leave their homes and serve their country as mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. Yaszek then demonstrates how Judith Merril, Kay Rogers, and Marion Zimmer Bradley merged these seemingly contradictory ideas in stories that celebrated women's domestic lives as inspiration for scientific and technological discovery. Thus these authors figured women's work in both the home and the laboratory as essential to the ongoing development of technoscientific society in particular and human progress as a whole.