The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin: A Library of America Special Publication Pre-Owned Hardcover 1598535803 9781598535808 Yas

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This is a Pre-Owned book. All our books are in Good or better condition. Format: Hardcover Author: Yas ISBN10: 1598535803 ISBN13: 9781598535808 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 HARRIS The Miracle of the Lily 1928 LESLIE F. STONE The Conquest of Gola 1931 C. L. MOORE The Black Gods Kiss 1934 LESLIE PERRI Space Episode 1941 JUDITH MERRIL That Only a Mother 1948 WILMAR H. SHIRAS In Hiding 1948 KATHERINE MACLEAN Contagion 1950 MARGARET ST. CLAIR The Inhabited Men 1951 ZENNA HENDERSON Ararat 1952 ANDREW NORTH All Cats Are Gray 1953 ALICE ELEANOR JONES Created He Them 1955 MILDRED CLINGERMAN Mr. Sakrisons Halt 1956 LEIGH BRACKETT All the Colors of the Rainbow 1957 CAROL EMSHWILLER Pelt 1958 ROSEL GEORGE BROWN Car Pool 1959 ELISABETH MANN BORGESE For Sale Reasonable 1959 DORIS PITKIN BUCK Birth of a Gardner 1961 ALICE GLASER The Tunnel Ahead 1961 KIT REED The New You 1962 JOHN JAY WELLS MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY Another Rib 1963 SONYA DORMAN When I Was Miss Dow 1966 KATE WILHELM Baby You Were Great 1967 JOANNA RUSS The Barbarian 1968 JAMES TIPTREE JR. The Last Flight of Dr. Ain 1969 URSULA K. LE GUIN Nine Lives 1969