Future Is Female! Volume Two, The 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Stories By Women
A Library of America Special Publication
$48.75
- Hardcover
450 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2022
Summary
Go back to the Future Is Female in this all-new collection of wildly entertaining stories by the trailblazing feminist writers who transformed American science fiction in the 1970s.
In the 1970s, feminist authors created a new mode of science fiction in defiance of the “baboon patriarchy”—Ursula K. Le Guin’s words—that had long dominated the genre, imagining futures that are still visionary. In this sequel to her groundbreaking 2018 anthology The Future is Female!—25 Classic Scien…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598537321 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598537326 |
| Author: | Lisa Yaszek |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 450 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 144mm |
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“But for my money, the sci-fi event of the season is the second volume of the Library of America’s absorbing “The Future is Female” series. This installment focuses on short stories by women of the 1970s, the heyday of Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree Jr., the pseudonym of Chicagoan Alice Bradley Sheldon.” —Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune
“Yaszek has come up with a great mix … the real treat is in discovering some terrific but less well-known works by authors now largely forgotten.” —Alex Good, The Toronto Star
About The Author
Lisa Yaszek
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.
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