Women of Wonder: The Classic Years
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| Author | Pamela Sargent |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Women of Wonder series |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace |
Publication date | 1995 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 440 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-15-600031-4 |
| Followed by | Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years |
Women of Wonder, The Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s is an anthology of short stories, novelettes, and novellas edited by Pamela Sargent. It was published in 1995, along a companion volume, Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the Present.[1]
The collection revisits fourteen works by female science fiction authors published in the out-of-print anthologies Women of Wonder, More Women of Wonder, and The New Women of Wonder and adds seven new pieces originally published between 1944 and 1978. It also includes a history of women in science fiction and a twelve-page list of recommended readings of science fiction by women from 1818 to 1978, which has been deemed "one of the highlights of the anthology."[2]
The Women of Wonder anthologies were one of the first science fiction collections to focus on women in science fiction both as authors and as varied and complex characters.[3]
- "Introduction: Women of Wonder, the Classic Years" - Pamela Sargent
- "No Woman Born" (1944) - C. L. Moore
- "That Only a Mother" (1948) - Judith Merril
- "Contagion" (1950) - Katherine MacLean
- "The Woman from Altair" (1951) - Leigh Brackett
- "Short in the Chest" (1954) - Margaret St. Clair
- "The Anything Box" (1956) - Zenna Henderson
- "Death Between the Stars" (1956) - Marion Zimmer Bradley
- "The Ship Who Sang" (1961) - Anne McCaffrey
- "When I Was Miss Dow" (1966) - Sonya Dorman
- "The Food Farm" (1967)- Kit Reed
- "The Heat Death of the Universe" (1967) - Pamela Zoline
- "The Power of Time" (1971) - Josephine Saxton
- "False Dawn" (1972) - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
- "Nobody's Home" (1972) - Joanna Russ
- "The Funeral " (1972) - Kate Wilhelm
- "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" (1973) - Vonda N. McIntyre
- "The Women Men Don't See" (1973) - James Tiptree, Jr.
- "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" (1974) - Eleanor Arnason
- "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974) - Ursula K. Le Guin
- "The Family Monkey" (1977) - Lisa Tuttle
- "View from a Height" (1978) - Joan D. Vinge
- About the Authors: Women of Wonder, the Classic Years
- About the Editor
- Recommended Reading: Science Fiction by Women, 1818-1978