# Women of Wonder

Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s

Pamela Sargent
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Based on one of the most popular SF anthologies of all time, which dispelled the notion that women don’t write “real” science fiction, this volume features stories by twenty-one seminal SF writers. Included are works by Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Judith Merril. Introduction and Bibliography by the Editor. Content "No Woman Born" by C. L. Moore (1944) "That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril (1948) "Contagion" by Katherine MacLean (1950) "The Woman from Altair" by Leigh Brackett (1951) "Short in the Chest" by Margaret St. Clair (1954) "The Anything Box" by Zenna Henderson (1956) "Death Between the Stars" by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1956) "The Ship Who Sang" by Anne McCaffrey (1961) "When I Was Miss Dow" by Sonya Dorman Hess (1966) "The Food Farm" by Kit Reed (1966) "The Heat Death of the Universe" by Pamela Zoline (1967) "The Power of Time" by Josephine Saxton (1971) "False Dawn" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (1972) "Nobody's Home" by Joanna Russ (1972) "The Funeral" by Kate Wilhelm (1972) "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McIntyre (1973) "The Women Men Don't See" by James Tiptree, Jr. (1973) "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" by Eleanor Arnason (1974) "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974) "The Family Monkey" by Lisa Tuttle (1977) "View from a Height" by Joan D. Vinge (1978)
Genres: Science FictionShort StoriesAnthologiesFictionFeminismGenderScience Fiction FantasyShort Story CollectionAdultWomens
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