As I sat down on the eve of the official publication date of Women of Futures Past, I am filled with mixed emotions. I’m pleased the book is finally out. I did a lot of work to find the right…
Tag: Leigh Brackett
Guest Blog by Leah Cutter
Our final guest blog associated with the Women in Fantasy Storybundle comes from Leah Cutter. Like some of the other writers this past week, Leah published her first novel, Paper Mage, in this century. The novel, set in T’ang dynasty…
Guest Blog by Eleanor Arnason
I found this blog by Eleanor Arnason as I researched material for Women of Futures Past. Eleanor has kindly allowed me to share it here. The blog originally appeared in Strange Horizons, and articulates exactly how I felt as I…
“The Queer Ones” by Leigh Brackett
“The Queer Ones” reminds me more of stories by Stephen King or Zenna Henderson or Sharyn McCrumb, stories set in a rural America that makes its own rules. Hank Temple and his friends run into a badly beaten child who…
“Shannach—The Last” by Leigh Brackett
Honestly, I shouldn’t have read “Shannach—The Last.” I didn’t have time, and it was clearly too long for the Baen anthology. But that opening paragraph— “It was dark in the caves under Mercury. It was hot, and there was no…
“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…
The Halfling by Leigh Brackett
Okay, anyone who has come to the anthology workshop that Dean and I hold in the early part of the year knows that I don’t like carnival stories. I fell in love with Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes and…
The Last Days of Shandakor by Leigh Brackett
I’m not sure what to think of this story. The imagery is memorable and profound, the sensawunder powerful, and that guilt which underlies much of sf—that we saw something lovely and ruined it—is present here as well. The story isn’t…
Mars Minus Bisha by Leigh Brackett
I’m so glad I wrote out my personal guidelines for the Tough Mothers anthology before I delved deeply into the reading. That way, I know when a wonderful story won’t fit into what I’m doing without a lot of (personal) angst. To…