Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s
10 best books like Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s (Pamela Sargent): A Door Into Ocean, The People: No Different Flesh, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms, Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume III: The Nebula Winners, The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-90, Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction
| 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...
A novel expanded from a short story (different from book 1 Pilgrimage which was a push of short stories connected by new material) of the alien PEOPLE and earthlings with gifts similar to those of the People -- who might be lost PEOPLE!
The "People" stories inclulded in this book:
No Different...
| Author | Ann VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 1629630357 |
Sisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Including stories from the...
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color.
Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer...
The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms
| Author | Helen Merrick |
| ISBN | 1933500336 |
In her cultural history of science fiction feminisms, Dr. Merrick explores the stories told about feminist science fiction by the various communities responsible for creating feminist sf culture, including authors, editors, fans, and scholars from across the disciplines. The Secret Feminist...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0451451422 |
I was gonna give this collection 2 stars ("it was okay"), but Connie Willis' story, called "All My Darling Daughters" (which gets 5 horrified but awestruck stars from me), was so brilliant that I'm bumping this to 3 on the strength of that story alone. I'm so glad I got to read it, even though it was traumatizing.
I...
| Author | George W. Proctor |
| ISBN | 0380793350 |
ix • Introduction (Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume III) • (1981) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
2 • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman • (1965) • shortstory by Harlan Ellison
15 • The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth • (1965) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
49...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0393035468 |
In the tradition of other groundbreaking Norton anthologies, Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Atteberry's Norton Book of Science Fiction provided the first truly comphrehensive and cohereent look at the best of contemporary science fiction. Its 67 stories, all published since 1960, offer compelling...
| Author | Delia Sherman |
| ISBN | 1931520240 |
Nineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres—realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political—and bring up gems of new fiction: interstitial fiction.
This is the literary mode of the new century, a reflection of the complex,...
Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction
| Author | Jetse de Vries |
| ISBN | 1906735670 |
Some of the world's most talented SF writers collected to throw light on a brighter future.
Shine: a collection of gems that throw light on a brighter future. Some of the world's most talented SF writers (including Alastair Reynolds, Kay Keyon and Jason Stoddard) show how things can change...
| Author | Charles N. Brown |
| ISBN | 0060594268 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
The introduction to The Locus Awards says it all: "This book contains some of the finest science fiction and fantasy short fiction ever written." Included within are some of the best Locus Award winning stories covering the last three decades. From Ursula K. Le Guin...
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
| Author | James Patrick Kelly |
If it is true that the test of a first-rate mind is its ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time, then we live in a century when it takes a first-rate mind just to get through the day. We have unprecedented access to information; cognitive dissonance is a banner headline in our morning papers...
Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
| Author | Jonathan Strahan |
| ISBN | 1597801178 |
An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the first volume in...
A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0446677426 |
These ten classic stories, each featuring well-developed, strong female characters, have garnered numerous literary awards and span every style and theme in speculative fiction.
Contents:
Inertia / Nancy Kress
Even the Queen / Connie Willis
Fool's Errand / Sarah Zettel
Rachel...
| Author | Justine Larbalestier |
Runner-up for the Hugo Best Related Book Award (2003)
The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction is a lively account of the role of women and feminism in the development of American science fiction during its formative years, the mid-20th century. Beginning in 1926, with the publication of...
| Author | John Varley |
| ISBN | 0441011950 |
From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence of Vision, published in 1978, was the most important collection...
| Author | Karen Joy Fowler |
| ISBN | 1892391198 |
This debut anthology features short fiction, novel excerpts, and essays that have won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Created in 1991 to honor the innovative fiction of Alice Bradley Sheldon (who wrote under the pen name James Tiptree), the Tiptree Award is presented to speculative fiction that explores...
| Author | James Tiptree Jr. |
| ISBN | 0345254171 |
James Tiptree Jr, or Alice Sheldon as she was known when publishing psychology papers instead of science fiction stories, is one of the best of an innovative era for the form, beginning to publish right at the cusp of the 60s and 70s. Whether originally intended or incidental, her choice of a male pseudonym...
| Author | Gwyneth Jones |
| ISBN | 0974655929 |
The lyrical opening was beautiful, and the world intriguing but I almost stopped reading around page 90, it was the kind of story I didn't like, about emotions and relationships and college years and the crowd. I felt stuck in this narrow world, as stuck as the main character unable to see inside of herself...
| Author | Alex Dally MacFarlane |
| ISBN | 0762454709 |
33 outstanding science fiction stories by women
Travel by train to the Moon, discover living spaceships born in gas giants and explore the constellations, alternate universes and post-apocalyptic worlds of this compelling collection of SF written by women.
Whether crossing...
| Author | Joanna Russ |
| ISBN | 0253209838 |
"To Write Like a Woman is a rare example of a feminist tackling science fictuion using postmodern theory, which makes for a much more sophisticated and nuanced appraisal than the usual fare." --Passion
"Russ' essays are witty and insightful. An excellent book for any writer or reader." --Feminist...
Women may hold up more than half the sky on earth, but it has been different in heaven: science fiction still is very much a preserve of male protagonists, mostly performing by-the-numbers quests.
In The Other Half of the Sky, editor Athena Andreadis offers readers heroes who happen to be women,...
