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The Future Is Female: Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women (2 volumes)

48 stories in all More

Edited by Lisa Yaszek

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Bending and stretching the conventions of science fiction to imagine new, more feminist futures and new ways of experiencing gender, visionary women writers have been from the beginning an essential if often overlooked force. In The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, Lisa Yaszek presents the best of this tradition, from the pioneers of the Pulp Era to the radical innovators of the 1960s New Wave, in a landmark anthology that upends the common notion that SF was conceived by and for men. And in a second volume, she opens a time portal to the 1970s—the decade when women changed science fiction forever with stories that made female community, agency, and sexuality central to the American future.

The 48 stories in these two volumes are by such well-known authors as C. L. Moore, Zenna Henderson, Andre Norton, Leigh Brackett, Kate Wilhelm, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., Ursula K. Le Guin, Joan D. Vinge, C. J. Cherryh, and Connie Willis, as well as many women whose rediscovered selections that will permanently alter your perceptions of American SF.

Lisa Yaszek, editor, is Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech and past president of the Science Fiction Research Association. She is the author of Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction and coeditor of Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction.

These special publications features full-cloth binding, acid-free paper, and a unique design with specifications differing from those of Library of America series titles.
Table of Contents

Volume 1
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
ELIZABETH MANN BORGESE: For Sale, Reasonable | 1959
DORIS PITKIN BUCK: Birth of a Gardener | 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

Volume 2
SONYA DORMAN HESS: Bitching It | 1971
CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO: Frog Pond | 1971
KATE WILHELM: The Funeral | 1972
JOANNA RUSS: When It Changed | 1972
KATHLEEN SKY: Lament of the Keeku Bird | 1973
MIRIAM ALLEN DEFORD: A Way Out | 1973
VONDA N. McINTYRE: Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand | 1973
JAMES TIPTREE, JR.: The Girl Who Was Plugged In | 1973
PAMELA SARGENT: If Ever I Should Leave You | 1974/77
DORIS PISERCHIA: Pale Hands | 1974
URSULA K. LE GUIN: The Day Before the Revolution | 1974
ELEANOR ARNASON: The Warlord of Saturn’s Moons | 1974
MARTA RANDALL: A Scarab in the City of Time | 1975
KATHLEEN M. SIDNEY: The Anthropologist | 1975
GAYLE N. NETZER: Hey, Lilith! | 1976
RACCOONA SHELDON: The Screwfly Solution | 1977
ELINOR BUSBY: Time to Kill | 1977
M. LUCIE CHIN: The Best Is Yet to Be | 1978
JOAN D. VINGE: View from a Height | 1978
CYNTHIA FELICE: No One Said Forever | 1978
C. J. CHERRYH: Cassandra | 1978
LISA TUTTLE: Wives | 1979
CONNIE WILLIS: Daisy, in the Sun | 1979
Contributors

Eleanor Arnason
Elizabeth Mann Borgese
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Rosel George Brown
Leigh Brackett
Elinor Busby
Doris Pitkin Buck
C. J. Cherryh
M. Lucie Chin
Mildred Clingerman
Miriam Allen Deford
Sonya Dorman
Carol Emshwiller
Cynthia Felice
Alice Glaser
Clare Winger Harris
Zenna Henderson
Sonya Dorman Hess
Alice Eleanor Jones
Ursula K. Le Guin
Katherine Maclean
Vonda N. McIntyre
Judith Merril
C. L. Moore
Gayle N. Netzer
Andrew North
Leslie Perri
Doris Piserchia
Marta Randall
Kit Reed
Joanna Russ
Pamela Sargent
Raccoona Sheldon
Kathleen M. Sidney
Wilmar H. Shiras
Kathleen Sky
Margaret St. Clair
Leslie F. Stone
James Tiptree, Jr.
Lisa Tuttle
Joan D. Vinge
John Jay Wells
Kate Wilhelm
Connie Willis
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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