Women Writing Science Fiction as Men

Women Writing Science Fiction as Men

Author: Michael D. Resnick

Publisher: D A W Books, Incorporated

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780756401481

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This original collection features 16 talented women--including Janis Ian, Linda J. Dunn, Mercedes Lackey, and Jennifer Roberson--who answered the challenge to envision the future from the point of view of men on everything from space-time travel to paternity suits. Original.


The Female Man

The Female Man

Author: Joanna Russ

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1504050932

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Four alternate selves from radically different realities come together in this “dazzling” and “trailblazing work” (The Washington Post). Widely acknowledged as Joanna Russ’s masterpiece, The Female Man is the suspenseful, surprising, darkly witty, and boldly subversive chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael—all living in parallel worlds—meet. Librarian Jeannine is waiting for marriage in a past where the Depression never ended, Janet lives on a utopian Earth with an all-female population, Joanna is a feminist in the 1970s, and Jael is a warrior with claws and teeth on an Earth where male and female societies are at war with each other. When the four women begin traveling to one another’s worlds, their preconceptions on gender and identity are forever challenged. With “palpable anger . . . leavened by wit and humor” (The New York Times), Russ both employs and upends genre conventions to deliver a wickedly satiric and exhilarating version of when worlds collide and women get woke. This ebook includes the Nebula Award–winning bonus short story “When It Changed,” set in the world of The Female Man.


The Feminine Future

The Feminine Future

Author: Mike Ashley

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2015-02-17

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0486803406

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Tales by Ethel Watts Mumford, Edith Nesbit, Clare Winger Harris, and others envision a feminist society in another dimension, a man who converts himself into a cyborg, a robot housemaid, and many other intriguing scenarios.


How to Suppress Women's Writing

How to Suppress Women's Writing

Author: Joanna Russ

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 1983-09

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780292724457

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Discusses the obstacles women have had to overcome in order to become writers, and identifies the sexist rationalizations used to trivialize their contributions


Casimir Bridge

Casimir Bridge

Author: Darren Beyer

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-02-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781530164080

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A manned, interstellar survey ship has gone missing. A nuclear terror plot is thwarted just outside Washington, D.C. And it's an election year. Mandisa "Mandi" Nkosi is a young reporter who, while on a trip to Johannesburg to connect with her roots, is contacted by an anonymous source with evidence that material seized from a nuclear terror plot will point squarely at one of humanity's most important companies as the supplier. The source also unveils that the "evidence" against the company - Applied Interstellar Corporation (AIC), a science and technology behemoth with more corporate and political foes than can be counted - is a setup, and part of a plot to destroy AIC and gain control of its technological secrets. The deeper Mandi digs, the more of a target she becomes.


The Two of Them

The Two of Them

Author: Joanna Russ

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2005-03-15

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780819567604

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How female solidarity begins—in experience, thought, action, and force of conviction.


Fade Into You

Fade Into You

Author: Nikki Darling

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1936932423

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"A glorious illumination of the dark corners of teen trouble, Fade Into You tangles Chicano cultural inheritance, nascent punk self-discovery, and kid truth in a stoned haze." —Jessica Hopper, author of Night Moves In the glorious wasteland of 1990s Los Angeles, Nikki Darling alternates between cutting class and getting high, falling into drugs, crushes, and counterculture to figure out how she fits into the world. Running increasingly wild with other angst-ridden outcasts, she pushes herself to the edge only to find herself trapped in the cyclical violence of growing up female. Written in dreamy, subterranean prose, this debut novel captures the reckless defiance and fragility of girlhood.


The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

Author: Margaret Atwood

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Published: 2011-09-06

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0771008791

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An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.


Monster, She Wrote

Monster, She Wrote

Author: Lisa Kröger

Publisher: Quirk Books

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1683691393

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Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond. Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction. Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein, who was rumored to keep her late husband’s heart in her desk drawer. But have you heard of Margaret “Mad Madge” Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier (and liked to wear topless gowns to the theater)? If you know the astounding work of Shirley Jackson, whose novel The Haunting of Hill House was reinvented as a Netflix series, then try the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term romantic relationships with women in the Victorian era. You’ll meet celebrated icons (Ann Radcliffe, V. C. Andrews), forgotten wordsmiths (Eli Colter, Ruby Jean Jensen), and today’s vanguard (Helen Oyeyemi). Curated reading lists point you to their most spine-chilling tales. Part biography, part reader’s guide, the engaging write-ups and detailed reading lists will introduce you to more than a hundred authors and over two hundred of their mysterious and spooky novels, novellas, and stories.