Sisters of Tomorrow : : the First Women of Science Fiction

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Introduction: New work for new women -- "The evolutionary monstrosity" (1929) / Clare Winger Harris -- "Out of the void" (1929) / Leslie F. Stone -- "Into the 28th century" (1930) / Lilith Lorraine -- "The man from space" (1930) / L. Taylor Hansen -- "Shambleau" (1933) / C.L. Moore -- "Strange orchids" (1937) / Dorothy Gertrude Quick -- "Reverse phylogeny" (1937) / Amelia Reynolds Long -- "Space episode" (1941) / Leslie Perri -- "When you think that ... smile" (1943) / Dorothy Louise Les Tina -- Poets. "The night express" (1931) ; "Evolution" (1931) ; Radio revelations" (1932) / Julia Boynton Green -- "Untitled" (1933) / Virginia Kidd -- "They run again" (1939) ; "The wood wife" (1942) ; "Sea shell" (1943) / Leah Bodine Drake -- "Defiance" (1945) ; "Affinity" (1945) / Tigrina -- "Earthlight on the moon" (1941) ; "The acolytes" (1946) ; Men keep strange trysts" (1946) / Lilith Lorraine -- Journalist. "Natural ink" (1942) / Ellen Reed -- "Oil for bombing" (1944) / Fran Miles -- ‡ t "Marine engineering in the insect world" (1945) / Henrietta Brown -- "The battle of the sexes" (1943) ; "Scientific oddities" (1945) / Lynn Standish -- "Sunlight" (1946) / Laura Moore Wright -- "Scientific mysteries : the white race -- does it exist?" (1942) ; "Scientific mysteries : footprints of the dragon" (1944) / L. Taylor Hansen -- "A protest" (1943) / H. Malamud, I. Berkman, H. Rogovin -- "L. Taylor Hansen defends himself" (1943) / L. Taylor Hansen -- Editors. "Editorial note" (1939) ; "The ‡t editor's page" (1940) ; "The editor's page" (1943) / Mary Gnaedinger -- "The eyrie" : 1940, 1941 / Dorothy Stevens McIlwraith -- "Cracks : wise and otherwise" (1943) ; ‡t "Training for world citizenship" (1946) ; "The story of Different" (1950) / Lilith Lorraine -- Artists. Olivette Bourgeois ; Lucille Webster Holling ; Margaret Johnson Brundage ; Dorothy Louise Les Tina ; Dolly Rackley Donnell -- Conclusion: Challenging the narrative, or women take back science fiction / Kathleen Ann Goonan.
"For nearly half a century, feminist scholars, writers, and fans have successfully challenged the notion that science fiction is all about "boys and their toys," pointing to authors such as Mary Shelley, Clare Winger Harris, and Judith Merril as proof that women have always been part of the genre. Continuing this tradition, Sisters of Tomorrow offers readers a comprehensive selection of works by SF luminaries. Providing insightful commentary and context, this anthology documents how women in the early twentieth century contributed to the science fiction magazine community and showcases the content they produced, including short stories, editorials, illustrations, poetry, and science journalism. Yaszek and Sharp's critical annotation and author biographies link women's work in the early science fiction community to larger patterns of feminine literary and cultural production in turn-of-the-twentieth-century America. In a concluding essay, the award-winning author Kathleen Ann Goonan considers such work in relation to the history of women in science and engineering and to the contemporary science fiction community itself." --Publisher information.

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