Ebook {Epub PDF} Women of Wonder: Science-Fiction Stories by Women about Women by Pamela Sargent

Collect with by a deft mind, this collection contains short stories written by women about women. Each stories explores a different intersection of science and the feminine. Sargent's introduction gives an overview of women in science fiction, starting with Mary Shelley and Frankenstein (arguably the first science fiction novel) and moving into the current (for her) rising female authors/5(6).  · In , author Pamela Sargent began to assemble stories for a groundbreaking anthology: Women of Wonder, collecting science fiction stories by women, about woman. It was the first anthology of its kind, and as you can probably imagine, . Contents xi • Introduction (More Women of Wonder) • essay by Pamela Sargent 3 • Jirel Meets Magic • [Jirel of Joiry] • () • novelette by C. L. Moore 53 • The Lake of the Gone Forever • () • novelette by Leigh Brackett • The Second Inquisition • [Alyx] • () • novelette by Joanna Russ • The Power of Time • () • short story by Josephine /5.

Women of wonder: science fiction stories by women about women Item Preview remove-circle science fiction stories by women about women by Sargent, Pamela. Publication date Topics Science fiction, These exceptional stories show that science fiction is no longer a field completely reserved for men Access-restricted-item. Pamela Sargent is the author of Child of Venus and Venus of Dreams and the editor of Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years, a collection of science fiction written by bltadwin.ru of her short stories was also recently dramatized on the television series Tales from the bltadwin.ru lives in Albany, New York. Anne McCaffrey is the author of more than 60 novels, including the The Ship Who Sang. Sargent is the editor of the Women of Wonder anthologies, the first collections of science fiction by women. Her novel Climb the Wind, set in the United States after the Civil War, was a finalist for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and her novel Earthseed has been optioned by Paramount Pictures.

As with the previous collection (Women of Wonder, pub. ) this collection contains a wide range of stories, both science fiction and fantasy. Stories Included: Jirel Meets Magic by C. L. Moore The Lake of Gone Forever by Leigh Brackett The Second Inquisition by Joanne Russ The Power of Time by Josephine Sexton The Funeral by Kate Wilhelm. In her Introduction to the edited collection Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories by Women About Women, Pamela Sargent writes, “It is interesting to note the absence of important female. Pamela Sargent has won the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. In , she was honored with the Pilgrim Award by the Science Fiction Research Association for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship.