Future Is Female!: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories By Wom En, From Pulp Pioneers To Ursula K. Le Guin: A Library of America Special Publication

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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 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 HARRISThe Miracle of the Lily (1928) LESLIE F. STONEThe Conquest of Gola (1931) C. L. MOOREThe Black God's Kiss (1934) LESLIE PERRISpace Episode (1941) JUDITH MERRILThat Only a Mother (1948) WILMAR H. SHIRASIn Hiding (1948) KATHERINE MACLEANContagion (1950) MARGARET ST. CLAIRThe Inhabited Men (1951) ZENNA HENDERSONArarat (1952) ANDREW NORTHAll Cats Are Gray (1953) ALICE ELEANOR JONESCreated He Them (1955) MILDRED CLINGERMANMr. Sakrison's Halt (1956) LEIGH BRACKETTAll the Colors of the Rainbow (1957) CAROL EMSHWILLERPelt (1958) ROSEL GEORGE BROWNCar Pool (1959) ELISABETH MANN BORGESEFor Sale, Reasonable (1959) DORIS PITKIN BUCKBirth of a Gardner (1961) ALICE GLASERThe Tunnel Ahead (1961) KIT REEDThe New You (1962) JOHN JAY WELLS & MARION ZIMMER BRADLEYAnother Rib (1963) SONYA DORMANWhen I Was Miss Dow (1966) KATE WILHELMBaby, You Were Great (1967) JOANNA RUSSThe Barbarian (1968) JAMES TIPTREE JR.The Last Flight of Dr. Ain (1969) URSULA K. LE GUINNine Lives (1969)

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Make no mistake: The quality of the stories here is unassailable. Kirkus Reviews

Valuable ... educational and enjoyable, a significant retrospective of science fictions foremothers. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"An impressive and super fun-to-read collection thats well worth picking up, and what it will leave you with (other than the notion that the future aint what it used to be) is the sense that women have always been into sci-fiand theyve beengood at it." Marie Claire

Lisa Yaszeks fascinating and well-researched anthology presents a trove of writers who helped define the genrewhat all the stories have in common is sheer readability and a delicious sense of discovery. Gary K. Wolfe,The Chicago Tribune

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Lisa Yaszek, editor, is Professor 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 (2008), and coeditor of Sisters of Tomorrow- The First Women of Science Fiction (2016); she currently serves as a juror for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year and the Eugie Foster Memorial Award for the Best Speculative Story of the Year.