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The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin: A Library of America Special Publication (2018)

Tekijä: Lisa Yaszek (Toimittaja)

Muut tekijät: Elisabeth Mann Borgese (Avustaja), Leigh Brackett (Avustaja), Marion Zimmer Bradley (Avustaja), Rosel George Brown (Avustaja), Doris Pitkin Buck (Avustaja)21 lisää, Mildred Clingerman (Avustaja), Sonya Dorman (Avustaja), Carol Emshwiller (Avustaja), Alice Glaser (Avustaja), Clare Winger Harris (Avustaja), Zenna Henderson (Avustaja), Alice Eleanor Jones (Avustaja), Ursula K. Le Guin (Avustaja), Katherine Maclean (Avustaja), Judith Merril (Avustaja), CL Moore (Avustaja), Andrew North (Avustaja), Leslie Perri (Avustaja), Kit Reed (Avustaja), Joanna Russ (Avustaja), Wilmar H. Shiras (Avustaja), Margaret St. Clair (Avustaja), Leslie F. Stone (Avustaja), James Tiptree Jr (Avustaja), John Jay Wells (Avustaja), Kate Wilhelm (Avustaja)

Sarjat: The Future Is Female! (1), Library of America Special Anthologies (20)

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"Bending and stretching its conventions to imagine new, more feminist futures and new ways of experiencing gender, visionary women writers have been from the beginning an essential if often overlooked force in American science fiction. Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the best of this female tradition, from the pioneers of the Pulp Era to the radical innovators of the 1960s New Wave, in a landmark anthology that upends the common notion that SF was conceived by and for men. Here are 25 mind-blowing SF classics that still shock and inspire: Judith Merril and Wilmar H. Shiras's startling near-future stories of the children of the new atomic age; Carol Emshwiller and Sonya Dorman's haunting explorations of alien otherness; dystopian fables of consumerism and overpopulation by Elizabeth Mann Borgese and Alice Glaser; evocations of cosmic horror from Margaret St. Clair and Andrew North (Andre Norton); and much more. Other writers here take on some of SF's sexist clichés and boldly rethink sex and gender from the ground up. C. L. Moore and Leslie Perri introduce courageous, unforgettable "sheroes"; Alice Eleanor Jones sounds a housewife's note of protest against the conformities of life in a postapocalyptic suburb; Leslie F. Stone envisions an interplanetary battle of the sexes, in which the matriarchs of Venus ward off unprovoked attacks by barbaric spacemen from Earth; John Jay Wells and Marion Zimmer Bradley wonder how future military men will feel about their pregnancies. The Future Is Female! is a star-spanning, soul-stirring, multidimensional voyage of literary-feminist exploration and recovery that will permanently alter your perceptions of American SF."--Publisher's website.… (lisätietoja)
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Story reviews for The Future is Female

Introduction by LISA YASZEK 3/5
Adds some very interesting context to the collection of stories, and the history of women in SFF.

CLARE WINGER HARRIS The Miracle of the Lily (1928) 3/5
The first of many stories to show me that some common sci-fi concepts/tropes are older than I would have thought. Doesn't hold up to current scientific knowledge, but interesting story nonetheless.

LESLIE F. STONE The Conquest of Gola (1931) 3/5
This is the kind classic pulp sci-fi story I was expecting, with humans visiting other planets and finding things mostly the same but a little bit different. A fun story with something to say about gender roles, but I'm not quite sure what the message was.

C. L. MOORE The Black God’s Kiss (1934) 1/5
This was was just weird and trippy. More horror than sci-fi, which doesn't fit my tastes.

LESLIE PERRI Space Episode (1941) 5/5
Very compelling POV character, clearly influenced by the "fly girls" pioneering female aviators of the immediately preceding decades.

JUDITH MERRIL That Only a Mother (1948) 3/5
The reveal in this one was very well done, but the message strikes a strange tone to my modern outlook.

WILMAR H. SHIRAS In Hiding (1948) 4/5
Very slowly building revelations in this story make it very compelling. A hopeful ending, which I liked.

KATHERINE MACLEAN Contagion (1950) 4/5
Completely outdated biology, but an interesting premise nonetheless. June is an interesting POV character.

MARGARET ST. CLAIR The Inhabited Men (1951) 3/5
A bit confusing. Not quite the shocking reveal I think the author was going for. Interesting and well written though.

ZENNA HENDERSON Ararat (1952) 4/5
Excellent world building and cultural descriptions here. I immediately had a sense of the place and the people.

ANDREW NORTH All Cats Are Gray (1953) 4/5
Such a fun story with a great Mos Eisley Cantina feeling. Two excellent characters in a spacefaring cat and an extremely sharp woman. Not a fan of the ending, since there's no reason given that the two characters should be at all interested in one another.

ALICE ELEANOR JONES Created He Them (1955) 4/5
One of the most depressing, desolate stories I’ve ever read. Very vivid depiction of a very, very unhappy life. Felt completely real.

MILDRED CLINGERMAN Mr. Sakrison’s Halt (1956) 3/5
A little boring, but with a nice message and very good imagery and characters.

LEIGH BRACKETT All the Colors of the Rainbow (1957) 4/5
Very interesting reveal a few pages in, followed by some very upsetting (but believably written) events. Another story with a big message. After thinking about it for a bit, I think it's a wrong-headed message too.

CAROL EMSHWILLER Pelt (1958) 5/5
Wow. This story has the same sort of feel I remember from *The Mount*. It has a real sense of suspense and managed to make me feel completely inside the mind of a dog.

ROSEL GEORGE BROWN Car Pool (1959) 3/5
I didn't care for the bit about the housewife wanting to be less "respectable", or the two women pitted against one another. But some very interesting ideas here around an alien child integrating into human child groups.

ELISABETH MANN BORGESE For Sale, Reasonable (1959) 3/5
Still very timely as we are continually debating when we will be "replaced" by robots/AI/automation. I'm a sucker for fake footnotes as well.

DORIS PITKIN BUCK Birth of a Gardener (1961) 3/5
This story had an interesting twist, but the husband in the story was such a condescending jerk that I could barely manage to make it through the whole thing.

ALICE GLASER The Tunnel Ahead (1961) 3/5
This has a very original take on how humans might respond to the impending overpopulation crisis. I haven't seen anyone doing the "overpopulated future" trope in quite this way before. But I didn't like any of the characters in the story so it was hard to connect with.

KIT REED The New You (1962) 4/5
It's pretty depressing to me that the idea of completely replacing yourself to be prettier and more outgoing still feels so relevant today. But I really liked this take on the idea and how clever Martha ends up being in the end. Such a satisfying ending!

JOHN JAY WELLS & MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY Another Rib (1963) 3/5
The idea of having to repopulate the human race without any women should be an obvious one and should have been done to death by now. But this is one of only a few attempts at the trope I've seen. It's interesting to see how much the focus is on the outraged and disgusted reaction of the captain and how the authors dance around descriptions of the actual transformation. The homophobia and transphobia here, as well as the complete ignorance around both topics, is shocking to this modern reader.

SONYA DORMAN When I Was Miss Dow (1966) 2/5
Some interesting ideas here about other kinds of sentient beings. But it was a bit confusing to figure out what was going on and the characters weren't striking.

KATE WILHELM Baby, You Were Great (1967) 4/5
This story is chilling. Given what we've seen from the current institution of "celebrity", this terrible possibility is all too real. Very clearly written with good characters.

JOANNA RUSS The Barbarian (1968) 4/5
Another great main character here who I could really identify with. And some ideas that are all too close to home for any woman trying to make her way in system set against her. "The fool doesn't even know I hate him," indeed.

JAMES TIPTREE JR. The Last Flight of Dr. Ain (1969) 4/5
Not so fun to read an unexpected pandemic story with COVID still raging across the world. But a well written story with some very entertaining descriptions of academics and conferences.

URSULA K. LE GUIN Nine Lives (1969) 5/5
Of course this Le Guin story is just absolutely engrossing and gutting. She's made me rethink the way that I view the world and others, yet again. A very strong story to end the collection with. ( )
  leslie.emery | Jul 8, 2021 |
This is a collection of science fiction stories written by women in the 1940s - 1960s. The stories have all the weaknesses of science fiction from that era. In some cases even the lack of female characters.

I found the science aspects to be really weak. A medical 'cure' that kills all non-human cells in a person? That is a very fast way to kill them. An astronaut can leave but not reenter a spaceship through a destroyed air lock? But how can the inner door be opened and reclosed to let the person out?

I did not finish this book. The 8 stories I read were just too bad. ( )
1 ääni MarthaJeanne | Nov 18, 2019 |
Well, this is a pretty awesome collection. I found a lot to like about it, with stories spanning forty years and visiting a variety of worlds. The stories were chosen and even put together in a good order. Of particular note was placing a shorter story (“Space Episode”) immediately after a longer one (“The Black God’s Kiss”), and placing two with similar themes beside each other so that the reader could compare the approaches taken (“That Only a Mother” and “In Hiding”).

I liked most of the stories in this collection or could at least appreciate what was being done. My favourites were ones that had realistic details about space travel (“Space Episode”), were told compactly (“All Cats are Gray”), and ones that showed that the real monsters are right here on Earth (“All the Colors of the Rainbow”; this one is right up there with the Doctor Who episode “Rosa” for showcasing that). I also liked the stories that switched traditional gender roles (“Another Rib” and “The Conquest of Gola”).

The introduction to the collection is very good, and there are biographical notes about each author at the end of the book. This is a great collection and I would definitely recommend it if you like SFF and stories written by women. ( )
3 ääni rabbitprincess | Aug 10, 2019 |
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"Bending and stretching its conventions to imagine new, more feminist futures and new ways of experiencing gender, visionary women writers have been from the beginning an essential if often overlooked force in American science fiction. Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the best of this female tradition, from the pioneers of the Pulp Era to the radical innovators of the 1960s New Wave, in a landmark anthology that upends the common notion that SF was conceived by and for men. Here are 25 mind-blowing SF classics that still shock and inspire: Judith Merril and Wilmar H. Shiras's startling near-future stories of the children of the new atomic age; Carol Emshwiller and Sonya Dorman's haunting explorations of alien otherness; dystopian fables of consumerism and overpopulation by Elizabeth Mann Borgese and Alice Glaser; evocations of cosmic horror from Margaret St. Clair and Andrew North (Andre Norton); and much more. Other writers here take on some of SF's sexist clichés and boldly rethink sex and gender from the ground up. C. L. Moore and Leslie Perri introduce courageous, unforgettable "sheroes"; Alice Eleanor Jones sounds a housewife's note of protest against the conformities of life in a postapocalyptic suburb; Leslie F. Stone envisions an interplanetary battle of the sexes, in which the matriarchs of Venus ward off unprovoked attacks by barbaric spacemen from Earth; John Jay Wells and Marion Zimmer Bradley wonder how future military men will feel about their pregnancies. The Future Is Female! is a star-spanning, soul-stirring, multidimensional voyage of literary-feminist exploration and recovery that will permanently alter your perceptions of American SF."--Publisher's website.

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