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: science fiction
Guest Blog by Sheila Williams
One of the myths that exists concerning women’s relationships with science fiction is that editors didn’t (and don’t) want fiction from women. The corollary myth is that women have had to hide their identities under androgynous names like Leigh or…
Birds Can’t Count by Mildred Clingerman
A companion story to “Minister Without Portfolio,” (listed below). A disgruntled housewife, reading about birds, makes a strange discovery with the help of her cat. The story’s witty and the payoff is such fun. I can’t say much more than…
Minister Without Portfolio by Mildred Clingerman
This one’s a favorite of mine. Mrs. Chriswell has moved in with her son and daughter-in-law after her husband’s death. She pretends to bird watch to get out of the house. While on one of those pretend bird-watching missions, she…
Guest Blog by Linda Nagata
Linda Nagata wrote some well-received short stories in the late 1980s, but she really caught the field’s attention with her Nanotech Succession series, which first appeared in 1995. In 2000, her novella “Goddesses” became the first story published online to…
“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…
Guest Blog by Nancy Kress
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.…
The Women Men Don’t See by James Tiptree, Jr.
When Toni Weisskopf and I first discussed this project in Colorado Springs in February, we joked that the title of the book should be The Women Men Don’t See. Once we settled down, we realized that the title was alienating part of…
All Cats Are Gray by Andre Norton
I spent the evening binging on James Tiptree, Jr, who is, I’ve decided, not a writer to binge on. Wonderful stories, but dark and often depressing. Breathtaking, suspenseful, and down. So I took a break and read an Andre Norton…
“Rachel in Love” by Pat Murphy
In addition to reading new, I’m rereading some old favorites to see if they line up with what I want to do with the anthology. I read Pat Murphy’s “Rachel in Love” when it first appeared in Asimov’s in 1987. When…