
“Debra Benita Shaw’s Women, Science and Fiction Revisited (2023) presents a thought-provoking reassessment of women’s impact on speculative literature across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. … Shaw’s work is a powerful testament to the enduring relevance of feminist perspectives in reshaping and reimagining speculative fiction for these peculiar times. It is well worth the read.” (E Mariah Spencer, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 51, November, 2024)
“In Women, Science and Fiction Revisited, Debra Benita Shaw provides a contemporary feminist analysis of women writers of science fiction, in which she explores how these writers re-imagine the role of women through this literary genre. … Women, Science and Fiction Revisited, is an illuminating new approach to reading such fiction and the realisation that fiction which explores the impact of science on women is 'as vital as ever,' … .” (Caroline Summerfield, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls. ac. uk, September 21, 2023)