Aiming for the Stars: A Collection of Science Fiction by Women, 1918-1959

L. (Lucile) Taylor Hansen (November 30, 1897 -- May 1976) was an American writer of science fiction popular science articles and books who used a male writing persona for the early part of her career. An autobiographical sketch by Hansen begins with her memory of staying with her parents in an abandoned fort after the "Indian Wars." In 1919, she writes, she was initiated into an Ojibwe tribe and then entered into a lifelong project to study Native American legends.

Leigh Douglass Brackett (1915 - 1978) was an American writer, particularly of science fiction, and has been referred to as the Queen of Space Opera. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on such films as The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). She was the first woman shortlisted for the Hugo Award.

The term "Droid" was first used in the science fiction story "Robots of the World! Arise!" by Mari Wolf, published in If: Worlds of Science Fiction in July 1952: Jack shook his head. "It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets--household Robs, commercial Droids, all of them." -Mari Wolf, "Robots of the World! Arise!