Women of Wonder: Science-Fiction Stories by Women about Women
10 best books like Women of Wonder: Science-Fiction Stories by Women about Women (Pamela Sargent): Native Tongue, Owl Moon, A Door Into Ocean, Foiled, The Star, The Last Dragon, Book of Iron, The City and the Stars/The Sands of Mars, For a Breath I Tarry, Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse
| Author | Suzette Haden Elgin |
| ISBN | 1876756055 |
Called "fascinating" by the New York Times upon its first publication in 1984, Native Tongue won wide critical praise and cult status, and has often been compared to the futurist fiction of Margaret Atwood. Set in the twenty-second century, the novel tells of a world where women are once again property,...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0399214577 |
Late one winter night a little girl and her father go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is silent as a dream. Whoo-whoo-whoo, the father calls to the mysterious nighttime bird.
But there is no answer.
Wordlessly the two companions walk along, for when you go owling...
| Author | Joan Slonczewski |
| ISBN | 0312876521 |
A Door into Ocean is the novel upon which the author's reputation as an important SF writer principally rests. A ground-breaking work both of feminist SF and of world-building hard SF, it concerns the Sharers of Shora, a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, highly advanced...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 1596432799 |
This review is for both books in the series, Foiled and Curses! Foiled Again. I read them one right after another, so they do sort of blend together a bit in my mind. For what it's worth, I'm shelving it as both middle grade and young adult because I feel like it straddles that very hazy line between the two...
Dear Arthur,
I appreciated your short story "The Star", but I think you will be interested to hear My side of the case. I have done My very best to create a beautiful universe where intelligent beings may evolve, flourish, and learn to become closer to Me. You would simply not believe how many aeons...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 1595827986 |
This is a lovely fable told by the gloriously talented Jane Yolen and drawn with a wonderfully romantic old world fairy tale style by Rebecca Guay.
Once dragons ruled the world. Wrecking terrible havoc on man and beast they killed at will and ate what they pleased until at last they were beaten...
| Author | Elizabeth Bear |
| ISBN | 1596064749 |
Subterranean Press is proud to announce Book of Iron, the standalone prequel to Elizabeth Bear’s acclaimed novella, "Bone and Jewel Creatures".
Bijou the Artificer is a Wizard of Messaline, the City of Jackals. She and her partner—and rival—Kaulas the Necromancer, along with the...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0446677965 |
This was an excellent book (rather two unconnected novels combined into one book).
The City and the Stars was written in 1956 and is written with extraordinary vision and sight into what the future may contain. Arthur C. Clarke shows why he is considered a grand master of science fiction with...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0934438277 |
Taking place long after the self-extinction of Man, "For a Breath I Tarry" recounts the tale of Frost, a sentient machine ("...a silver-blue box, 40x40x40 feet,... featured in whatever manner he chose.") Though Man has disappeared, his robotic creations (and their creations in turn) continue to...
Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse
A young woman discovers the power to speak up and take control of her fate—a theme that has never been more timely than it is now…
You think you know this story.
You do not.
A harsh, controlling father. A quiescent mother. A house that feels like anything but a home. Natasha gathers...
