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10 best books like Herland and Selected Stories (Charlotte Perkins Gilman): The Empress of Mars, Main-Travelled Roads, Psychology: The Briefer Course, The Water of the Wondrous Isles, Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves, The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories, The Portable Enlightenment Reader, And Also Sharks, Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley, Wild Grass

The Empress of Mars
AuthorKage Baker
ISBN0765318903
When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits and dreamers emigrated in droves to undertake the grueling task of terraforming the cold red planet—only to be abandoned when the BAC discovered it couldn’t turn a profit on Mars.

This...
Main-Travelled Roads
AuthorHamlin Garland
ISBN0803270585
Main-Travelled Roads contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised 1922 edition of an undisputed American classic. "Under the Lion's Paw" shows an honest, hard-working farmer victimized by a greedy landlord. Equally powerful is the semi-autobiographical "Up the Coolly," concerning a...
Psychology: The Briefer Course
AuthorWilliam James
ISBN0486416046
William James’s monumental Principles of Psychology has long been on my to-read list. But I have a nasty habit of letting books scare me; and a 1,400-page textbook from 1890 was sufficiently intimidating to make me put it off indefinitely.

To warm up to the task, I decided to read a couple...
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
AuthorWilliam Morris
ISBN1419187414
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves
AuthorJack D. Zipes
ISBN0415901405
The title of this compilation was misleading. I was expecting fairy tales that somehow turned paradigms on their heads or something that was more of a "revolt." However, this is instead a series of short fairy-tales that were selected to show how this genre was viewed through the Victorian era (e.g.,...
The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories
AuthorMarjorie Bowen
ISBN1840225378
Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) spent the early part of her working life providing for a demanding and ungrateful family. We are lucky that she did so, since among the results were these short stories of rare quality. In their use of dreams, ancient anecdote, and ruined or dilapidated buildings ('Florence...
The Portable Enlightenment Reader
AuthorIsaac Kramnick
ISBN0140245669
The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and...
And Also Sharks
AuthorJessica Westhead
ISBN1770860037
Finalist for the 2012 Danuta Gleed Literary Award A 2011 Globe and Mail Top 100 book One of Kobo's Best Ebooks of 2011 The forlornly funny stories in And Also Sharks celebrate the socially awkward, the insecure, the unfulfilled, and the obsessed. A disgruntled follower of a self-esteem blog posts a rambling...
Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley
AuthorRobert Sheckley
ISBN1590174941
Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic city­scapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth century. Today, as the new...
Wild Grass
AuthorXun Lu
ISBN9629961245
A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted significant and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain as powerful today as when first written. Echoes of these stories are audible in fiction from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.Like...
War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
AuthorKevin J. Anderson
ISBN0553575988
In this one-of-a-kind science fiction anthology, H. G. Wells's classic tale of Martian invasion serves as a takeoff point for a rare flight of the imagination. Here some of today's leading SF authors, including Connie Willis, George Alec Effinger, Robert Silverberg, Barbara Hambly, Mike Resnick,...
The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorMichael Sims
A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime

It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in...
The Future is Female! Women's Science Fiction Stories from the Pulp Era to the New Wave
AuthorLisa Yaszek
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

Warning: the visionary women...
Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2014 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, #713)
AuthorGordon Van Gelder
Volume 126, No. 5&6, #713, May/June 2014
Edited by Gordon Van Gelder
Cover art by Cory & Katska Ench

CONTENT:

Novella
"Bartleby The Scavenger" by Katie Boyer

Novelets
"The End Of The Silk Road" by David D. Levine
"Rooksnight" by Marc Laidlaw
"Containment...
The View from the Ground
AuthorMartha Gellhorn
ISBN0871132125
First published in 1959, but now offered in a revised and expanded edition, The View from the Ground presents over six decades of Gellhorn's ruminations on political, civil, and social issues and crises, from a lynching in the American South in the 1930s through a recent visit to Cuba to see what is new...
Critical Theory and Science Fiction
AuthorCarl Howard Freedman
ISBN0819563994
Carl Freedman traces the fundamental and mostly unexamined relationships between the discourses of science fiction and critical theory, arguing that science fiction is (or ought to be) a privileged genre for critical theory. He asserts that it is no accident that the upsurge of academic interest...
The Heavenly Twins
AuthorSarah Grand
ISBN0472065084
An interesting mess with syphilis and cross-dressing. Grand uses three heroines to explore issues like marriage, outlets for women's abilities and sexual morality. Part of the messiness is because the novel ends up like a jigsaw puzzle with Grand juggling the different strands and partly it's because...
The Last Iota
AuthorRobert Kroese
ISBN1250088461
The year is 2039, and Los Angeles is poised between order and chaos. After the Collapse of 2028, a vast section of LA, now known as the Disincorporated Zone, was disowned by the civil authorities and became a de facto third world country within the borders of the city.

Navigating the boundaries...
The Fixed Period
AuthorAnthony Trollope
ISBN0472064487
Published in 1882, this extraordinary novel--an exercise in Swiftian irony combined with a love story in a futuristic setting--is entirely uncharacteristic of Trollope's usual drawing room conversations and hunting scenes. Set in the 1980s, The Fixed Period describes an imaginary, antipodean...
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
AuthorJustine Larbalestier
ISBN0819566764
Women's contributions to science fiction over the past century have been lasting and important, but critical work in the field has only just begun to explore its full range. Justine Larbalestier has collected 11 key stories--many of them not easily found, and all of them powerful and provocative--and...
New Zapata
AuthorTeri Hall
ISBN1482643359
It’s 2052, and there’s one less state in the union. Texas, now known as the Republic of Texas, has seceded, just like it did in 1861, though for different reasons this time.

Rebecca lives in New Zapata, a border town in The Republic of Texas. She’s nineteen years old, born and raised in the...
Fat Girl in a Strange Land
AuthorKay T. Holt
ISBN0615569714
For every supermodel, there are thousands of women who have heard "Why don't you just eat less?" far too often. Except as comic relief or the unattractive single BFF, those women's stories are never told. Crossed Genres Publications presents Fat Girl in a Strange Land, an anthology of fourteen stories...
Impossible Things
AuthorConnie Willis
Winner of six Nebula and two Hugo awards for her fiction, Connie Willis is acclaimed for her gifted imagination and bold invention. Here are eleven of her finest stories, surprising tales in which the impossible becomes real, the real becomes impossible, and strangeness lurks at every turn.

The...
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