Lisa Yaszek

Future Is Female! Volume Two, The 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Stories By Women

Go back to the Future Is Female in this all new collection of wildly entertaining stories by the trailblazing feminist writers who transformed American science fiction in the 1970s Imagine it, if you can bear to look back: long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the writing of science fiction (so the story goes) was an affair dominated by men, or what Ursula K. Le Guin once described as a "baboon patriarchy"--its female characters figments of adolescent fantasy, awaiting rescue in bronze brassieres, to be mansplained to about rocketry and ray guns. Now cut to the 1970s--the coming-of-age decade from which the 20 stories gathered here emerged--when it all changed. Following on The Future Is Female , which traced the prehistory for women's science fiction from the 1920s to the 1960s, The Future Is Female Vol. 2 presents the astonishingly brave and compelling stories of the women who remade the genre in the 1970s, including: - Octavia E. Butler, "Childfinder" (1970) - Sonya Dorman, "Bitching It" (1971) - Kate Wilhelm, "The Funeral" (1972) - Joanna Russ, "When It Changed" (1972) NEBULA AWARD - Miriam Allen deFord, "A Way Out"(1973) - Vonda N. McIntyre, "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" (1973) NEBULA - James Tiptree, Jr., "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (1973) HUGO AWARD - Kathleen Sky, "Lament of the Keeku Bird" (1973) - Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974) NEBULA & LOCUS AWARD - Phyllis Eisenstein, "Attachment" (1974) - Eleanor Arnason, "The Warlords of Saturn's Moons" (1974) - Kathleen M. Sidney, "The Anthropologist" (1975) - Marta Randall, "A Scarab in the City of Time" (1975) - Elinor Busby, "A Time to Kill" (1977) - Raccoona Sheldon, "The Screwfly Solution" (1977) NEBULA AWARD - Pamela Sargent, "If Ever I Should Leave You" (1974) - Joan D. Vinge, "View from a Height" (1978) - M. Lucie Chin, "The Best Is Yet to Be" (1978) - Lisa Tuttle, "Wives" (1979) - Connie Willis, "Daisy, In the Sun" (1979)