@BM, DSwBT: I wouldn’t want to see Virginia Kidd strip. She’s been dead for 15 years or so. Cherry Wilder’s real name was apparently Cherry Grimm and she’s been dead even longer than Virginia Kidd.
@BM, DSwBT: Don’t really want to labour the point, but Kidd was born in 1921 and “Grimm” in 1931. Up to you whether that makes them young in 1979. Hell, in 1979 *I* was still sort of young.
Kidd was Mrs James Blish.
@DSWBT: That’s just what I thought. I mean, the spacesuit/radiation suit/weird-looking protective gear is fine enough, but not really “millennial” attire. Perhaps she lost her smartphone.
November 29th, 2017 at 10:53 am
But it took two men to spell Millennial Women.
Back cover. I am debating with myself on the exact meaning of the Publishers Weekly blurb.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81w9udwgOzL.jpg
November 29th, 2017 at 10:56 am
Can’t be a millennial woman, she’s not glued to her cell phone.
November 29th, 2017 at 11:06 am
So there IS a Mrs Tickle!
November 29th, 2017 at 11:54 am
Oh my god, she like, can’t even.
November 29th, 2017 at 1:04 pm
Tries to figure out how the voting machine works. Gives up and blames older people.
November 29th, 2017 at 1:33 pm
Cherry Wilder is a very convenient pen name. If the writing gig didn’t work out she already had her stripper name ready to go.
November 29th, 2017 at 1:56 pm
@BM: Virginia Kidd isn’t bad either. If the ecdysis career doesn’t work out she’s got her gang handle ready too.
November 29th, 2017 at 2:07 pm
Why sexism is stupid #83: nobody should be forced to do their Ebola research in the car park – not even on a planet under attack by giant produce.
November 29th, 2017 at 3:18 pm
The entire premise of this project is undercut by the obviously fashion-forward design of that spacesuit.
November 29th, 2017 at 3:22 pm
If anyone disagrees with millennial woman’s demand for a free college education, she is going to stab them with an ice pick.
November 29th, 2017 at 3:48 pm
Does she have a licence to drive a city-block?
November 29th, 2017 at 4:07 pm
@BM, DSwBT: I wouldn’t want to see Virginia Kidd strip. She’s been dead for 15 years or so. Cherry Wilder’s real name was apparently Cherry Grimm and she’s been dead even longer than Virginia Kidd.
November 29th, 2017 at 4:22 pm
@L_L: Grim indeed, although at least she won’t have to resort to a life of crime to support herself.
November 29th, 2017 at 4:28 pm
@LL – But I thought these “millennial women” were the young ‘uns?
November 29th, 2017 at 4:52 pm
@BM, DSwBT: Don’t really want to labour the point, but Kidd was born in 1921 and “Grimm” in 1931. Up to you whether that makes them young in 1979. Hell, in 1979 *I* was still sort of young.
Kidd was Mrs James Blish.
November 29th, 2017 at 5:29 pm
Looks like her big scientific discovery is orange-flavoured lollipops. I think she’s a bit behind the curve with that one.
November 29th, 2017 at 5:30 pm
@LL, Bibliomancer: If you really want to confuse people, try using ‘Generation X’ the way it was originally intended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X_(1965_book)
And to really confuse people, try explaining that ‘Saturday Night Fever’ was based on another journalist reminiscing about East End Mods in that year.
November 29th, 2017 at 5:57 pm
@DSWBT: That’s just what I thought. I mean, the spacesuit/radiation suit/weird-looking protective gear is fine enough, but not really “millennial” attire. Perhaps she lost her smartphone.
November 29th, 2017 at 8:04 pm
♫ Millennial Woman,
Get away from me
Millennial Woman,
Mama let me be ♫
Guess who?
November 29th, 2017 at 8:30 pm
@Raoul: Yes.
November 29th, 2017 at 10:38 pm
Is this the first time we’ve seen that particular goofy font?
This is terribly dull. Her extra-long arm is the only interesting thing about it.
@fred (1): That is indeed damning with faint praise. I bet the blurber was a man.
November 30th, 2017 at 1:04 am
It’s the kind of arm that needs an extra-large glove puppet.
November 30th, 2017 at 2:10 am
She’s a muppet!
November 30th, 2017 at 2:29 am
What Grace Holloway did during ‘The Stolen Earth”, while still in her straightjacket.
November 30th, 2017 at 3:48 am
@JuanPaul – She’s a struppet!
November 30th, 2017 at 3:55 am
Gluppet?
September 18th, 2019 at 10:21 am
Featuring LeGuin’s controversial story “The Women Who Walk Away From iPhones.”