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Her work that is considered her magnus opus is considered The Corn King and the Spring Queen as written in 1931. Many consider that book to be the best historical novel of the 20th century (Ascherton, 2015; Strange Horizons, 2015)

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She specifically goes to meet her ancestors including white slave holder Rufus and a woman who was born free but was later forced into slavery. Lilith's Brood is another book of Butler's and focuses on Lilith and her genetically altered children and how they all try to escape Earth along with a few others so as to avoid a military group that is trying to wipe out the human race (Butler, 2015; Biography, 2015)

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D. In English Literature from the University of Rochester and has since shifted to a work of scholarship rather than working for private companies (Caldwell, 2015; Chicago, 2015)

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However, there are a ton of other options including podcasts, YouTube, electronic magazines and other materials that are tablet- or phone-based and so on. The new trend of "new media" was seemingly set in stone when the Drudge Report broke the Bill Clinton sex scandal in the 1990's (Carr, 2011)

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When it comes to the American entertainment sphere, the presence of comic books being present in movies is hard to miss. There has been a whole slew of movies from prior or current comic books such as X-Men, Spiderman, Batman, Captain America, Iron Man and so on (DC Comics, 2015; Marvel Comics, 2015)

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Perhaps the biggest woman thus far would be Black Widow as portrayed in several of the timeline's movies by Scarlett Johansson. She has not yet gotten her own feature film but she has been prominently positioned in several of the movies thus far (DeConnick, 2015; Marvel Comics, 2015)

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Much like Circuit City vs. Best Buy in the electronics store market, two big names constricted to only one (DFP, 2013; Graser, 2013)

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One such person that has fully believed and committed to this is the feminist scholar by the name of Donna Haraway. Born in 1944, she is currently the Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz (EGS, 2015)

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One such person that has fully believed and committed to this is the feminist scholar by the name of Donna Haraway. Born in 1944, she is currently the Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz (EGS, 2015)

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She worked and operated quite deftly in a field that was controlled and consumed mostly by men and she did quite well at doing so. Indeed, while others only won one or two Nebula or Hugo awards, Russ ended up winning a dozen of those two awards combined (Fox, 2015; SFE, 2015)

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That being said, she states that "being" a female is something that is synthesized and described by many but she states that there is no singular way to method to describe being a woman as it is too varied and different from person to person and from culture to culture. Haraway is famously quoted as saying "I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess" (Haraway, 1991; EGS, 2015)

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When it comes to feminism and Marxism, there are others who have formed a linked between those two sociological ideals. One such person was Dorothy Smith (Hier, 2005)

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That book seemingly set the tone for many works that came after it in terms of stylistic form and the themes used (Melzer, 2006). The Star Wars movies continued on as three prequels, Star Trek: The Next Generation came along in both television and movie form (much like the Original Series predecessor) and there were also some major box office smashes such as Independence Day, Armageddon, District 9, Pandorum, the continuation of the Terminator series (which had started in the 1980's when the original film was released), Avatar and others (IGN, 2015)

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" They would be plugged into their virtual framework and would live their lives within that framework. All the while, their thermal energy would provide fuel for the robot empire that become "alive" on a level not unlike Skynet in the Terminator series (IMDB, 2015)

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Pluralite des Mondes Habites in 1862 and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race in 1871. Each of those works set a new pathway that had not been explored before or at least not in the precise way that was done by that author (James & Mendlesohn, 2003; DePauw, 2015)

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Dick but they were not acquainted with one another. In addition to touching on gender and feminism, she also firmly touched on other topics such as Anarchism, sociology in general, psychology, environmentalism and Taoism (Le Guin, 2015, Flood, 2014)

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Of course, manga is much more ubiquitous and common in Japanese culture given that this is where its roots are. Names that are present both in the West and the East relating to Manga include Big X, Bio Hunter, Deus Vitae, DNA, Gail Force and others (Manga, 2015)

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Cyberpunk is attributed by many to have started with Neuromancer by William Gibson in 1984. That book seemingly set the tone for many works that came after it in terms of stylistic form and the themes used (Melzer, 2006)

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One such person was Dorothy Smith (Hier, 2005). The post-gender themes mentnioned above are echoed in other places such as in the work of Helen Merrick (Merrick, 2009)

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One potential barrier to entry regarding the streaming option is that someone must have an internet connection and, to a lesser extent, other networking and wireless hardware to truly enjoy the experience. Some go so far as to convert disc and streaming content to local copies so as to be able to view the media independent of an internet connection or a distant service (Narayanan, Ye, Kaul & Shah, 2014)