A review by amalelmohtar
Memoirs of a Spacewoman by Naomi Mitchison

4.0

I thought this was amazing. I didn't want it to end -- and indeed, it more stopped than ended -- because Mitchison's narrator is so fascinating in her own right, and the perspective she offers on the experiences of her life, the communication lens through which she sees everything, feels so very much like an antidote to the kind of space exploration SF enshrined in canon. The one thing that surprised me was how conservative it was in terms of gender politics, given how progressive everything else about it was (especially in terms of family construction and a multiplicity of partners).

Basically I just want to read everything Mitchison's ever written. She's fantastic, and it's appalling to me that this book isn't considered a standard of the genre.