Nancy Kress first appeared on the sf scene in the late 1970s. Since then, she’s published 33 novels, more short stories than I can count, and won six Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.…
Month: August 2015
“The Tweener” by Leigh Brackett
Boy, when Leigh Brackett wrote horror, she wrote horror. This story, set in 1950s suburbia, is just chilling. Uncle Fred, the astronaut, brought a “neat little furry thing” back from Mars for his nieces and nephews. The “neat little furry…
“Story-teller of Many Worlds,” by Edmond Hamilton
Found in The Best of Leigh Hamilton, Nelson Doubleday, 1977. (Remember Nelson Doubleday?) One of the nifty things about doing the research for my first women in sf project is all the material I find while looking for great short…
Guest Blog by Vonda N. McIntyre
Vonda N. McIntyre has written some of the classics of the sf genre. Her byline first appeared in 1970, and since then she went on to win the Hugo, the Nebula, the Locus Award, and many others. Her Nebula-award winning…
Found Quotes 1
Quotes found during my research: “I started reading SF when I was about twelve with old Astounding Stories and Amazing Stories and fantasy with the old Weird Tales.” —Zenna Henderson (who would have been 12 in 1929), quoted in Partners in Wonder: Women and the…
Guest Blog by Judith Tarr
In 1985, Judith Tarr published her first epic fantasy novel, a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and the winner of the Crawford Award. Since then, she’s published dozens of novels under a variety of names, been…
Guest Blogs
As we move deeper and deeper into August, I’ve decided to change up the website slightly. I’ll be doing the same posts, mostly about the women in sf tidbits I find. I’ll also do a few short essays on topics…
“Unwillingly to School” by Pauline Ashwell
I started this story three separate times. I have the original Astounding publication (from 1958), and the story’s also collected in a book called Unwillingly to Earth, which is ultimately where I read it. The voice is both strong and unusual, deliberately so,…
Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler
I’ve been going through the list of stories that won or were nominated for Hugos, and I came across an Octavia Butler story I had never read before. For some reason, I figured “Speech Sounds” was a mainstream story, and…
A Women in SF Storybundle
As I mentioned in the overall post for this site, I’m doing several women in science fiction projects. The first to appear is this Storybundle. It features a number of the women whose work I’ve discussed on this site, and…