Sisters of tomorrow : the first women of science fiction /

Sisters of tomorrow : the first women of science fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Yaszek, Lisa, 1969- (Editor), Sharp, Patrick B., 1967- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2016]
Series:Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series.
Subjects:
Science fiction, American > History and criticism.
Science fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Fantasy literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States.
Women journalists > United States.
Science fiction, American.
Science fiction > Women authors.
Fantasy literature > Women authors.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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! editor's page" (1940) ; "The editor's page" (1943) / Mary Gnaedinger
  • "The eyrie" : 1940, 1941 / Dorothy Stevens McIlwraith
  • "Cracks : wise and otherwise" (1943) ;! "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.