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retrospective award nomination. According to Susan Wood and Chris Morgan, Dorman's "When I Was Miss Dow," can be seen as part of a tradition of "woman-as-alien" that "has a long tradition in science fiction." Further, they argue that Dorman uses "this convention... to examine the restraints, damages,
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