Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more: a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960s

SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the biggest and best survey of the female tradition in American science fiction ever published, a thrilling collection of twenty-five classic tales. From Pulp Era pioneers to New Wave experimentalists, here are over two dozen brilliant writers ripe for discovery and rediscovery, including Leslie F. Stone, Judith Merril, Leigh Brackett, Kit Reed, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., and Ursula K. Le Guin. Imagining strange worlds and unexpected futures, looking into and beyond new technologies and scientific discoveries, in utopian fantasies and tales of cosmic horror, these women created and shaped speculative fiction as surely as their male counterparts. Their provocative, mind-blowing stories combine to form a thrilling multidimensional voyage of literary-feminist exploration and recovery.

CONTENTS
Introduction by LISA YASZEK

CLARE WINGER HARIS The Miracle of the Lily (1928)

LESLIE F. STONE The Conquest of Gola (1931)

C. L. MORE The Black God's Kiss (1934)

LESLIE PERI Space Episode (1941)

JUDITH MERIL That Only a Mother (1948)

WILMAR H. SHIRAS In Read More chevron_right

Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more: a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960s

SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the biggest and best survey of the female tradition in American science fiction ever published, a thrilling collection of twenty-five classic tales. From Pulp Era pioneers to New Wave experimentalists, here are over two dozen brilliant writers ripe for discovery and rediscovery, including Leslie F. Stone, Judith Merril, Leigh Brackett, Kit Reed, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., and Ursula K. Le Guin. Imagining strange worlds and unexpected futures, looking into and beyond new technologies and scientific discoveries, in utopian fantasies and tales of cosmic horror, these women created and shaped speculative fiction as surely as their male counterparts. Their provocative, mind-blowing stories combine to form a thrilling multidimensional voyage of literary-feminist exploration and recovery.

CONTENTS
Introduction by LISA YASZEK

CLARE WINGER HARIS The Miracle of the Lily (1928)

LESLIE F. STONE The Conquest of Gola (1931)

C. L. MORE The Black God's Kiss (1934)

LESLIE PERI Space Episode (1941)

JUDITH MERIL That Only a Mother (1948)

WILMAR H. SHIRAS In Hiding (1948)

KATHERINE MACLEAN Contagion (1950)

MARGARET ST. CLAIR The Inhabited Men (1951)

ZENA HENDERSON Ararat (1952)

ANDREW NORTH All Cats Are Gray (1953)

ALICE ELEANOR JONES Created He Them (1955)

MILDRED CLINGERMAN Mr. Sakrison's Halt (1956)

LEIGH BRACKET All the Colors of the Rainbow (1957)

CAROL EMSHWILER Pelt (1958)

ROSEL GEORGE BROWN Car Pool (1959)

ELISABETH MAN BORGESE For Sale, Reasonable (1959)

DORIS PITKIN BUCK Birth of a Gardner (1961)

ALICE GLASER The Tunnel Ahead (1961)

KIT RED The New You (1962)

JOHN JAY WELS & MARION ZIMER BRADLEY Another Rib (1963)

SONYA DORMAN When I Was Miss Dow (1966)

KATE WILHELM Baby, You Were Great (1967)

JOANA RUS The Barbarian (1968)

JAMES TIPTRE JR. The Last Flight of Dr. Ain (1969)

URSULA K. LE GUIN Nine Lives (1969) chevron_left Read Less