Biotech vs. IT futures - a gender difference?

[nquixote]

I may be imagining this, but I seem to have noticed a gender difference in the kind of sci-fi technologies emphasized by a lot of recent authors. Specifically, most biotech-themed sci-fi seems to be written by female authors (Nancy Kress, Lois McMaster Bujold, Octavia Butler), while most information technology-themed works seem to be written by men (Neal Stephenson, Vernor Vinge, William Gibson, Charles Stross).

Has anyone else noticed this? Am I making a faulty generalization here? I mean, I can certainly think of a couple exceptions - David Brin writes about biotech stuff, Pat Cadigan writes about IT stuff, for example.

 

[KatG]

I think it's too much a generalization, yes. Greg Bear writes about biotech and in one novel combined it with IT. John Scalzi's Old Man's War is more biotech than IT, and most of the military SF is concerned with biotech.

 

[psikeyhackr]

I think Komarr is the most scientifically oriented story by Bujold but it is neither biotech or IT. It is my fave book by her so far.

Here someone agrees with me on the rating:

http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-671-57808-1.html

but he says noting about the scientific investigation in the story. Science fiction evaluated as though the science is not important. ABSURD!

psik