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 God's 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.
Sakrison's 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)
