Do Women Dream Of A Different Future? Women And Science Fiction

Hear from the women who rule sci-fi and fantasy right now to help us imagine a gender equal world.

From the The Handmaid’s Tale to The Power and The Hunger Games to Noughts & Crosses, women’s writing has drawn on history to imagine different futures in sci-fi and fantasy writing.

With grim comparisons being drawn between dystopian fiction and our current political climate, and as technology and science begin to make what seemed impossible a reality, what can speculative fiction tell us about our world today?

On the bicentenary of the publication of Frankenstein – written by a 19-year-old Mary Shelley in 1818 and often called the first true work of science fiction – we delve into portrayals of women in science fiction.