Women in science fiction
Although women had always been represented among science fiction writers (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has been called the first science fiction novel), it was not until the 1960s and 1970s that authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Joanna Russ began to consciously explore feminist themes in works such as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Female Man[?].See also:
- Women Science Fiction Authors
- Sex in science fiction
- The constructed language Láadan[?] in the novel Native Tongue
from Vicksburg (*10) to the Red River.
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soon raised the Queen of the West, (*11) and repaired her. With
the Red River, and two other steamers, they followed the
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just above Grand Gulf, and attacked her after dark on the 24th
armament, and probably would have destroyed them or driven them
hour and a half, but, in the dark, was struck seven or eight
reduced to a sinking condition. The armament was thrown
surrendered.
I had started McClernand with his corps of four divisions on the
hoping that he might capture Grand Gulf before the balance of
scarcely above water yet. Some miles from New Carthage the
the roads for the distance of two miles. Boats were collected
from such material as could be collected, to transport the
McClernand had reached New Carthage with one division and its
boats. On the 17th I visited New Carthage in person, and saw
doing was so tedious that a better method must be devised. The
enough to use boats; nor would the land be dry enough to march
plantation where the crevasse occurred, to Perkins' plantation,
march from Milliken's Bend from twenty-seven to nearly forty
each over six hundred feet long, making about two thousand feet
bayous very rapid, increasing the difficulty of building and
"Yankee soldier" was equal to any emergency. The bridges were
substantial were they that not a single mishap occurred in
except the loss of one siege gun (a thirty-two pounder). This,
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