Summary: "Bending and stretching its conventions to imagine new, more feminist futures and new ways of experiencing gender, visionary women writers have been from the beginning an essential if often overlooked force in American science fiction. Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the best of this female tradition, from the pioneers of the Pulp Era to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUTSummary: "In the 1970s, feminist authors created a new mode of science fiction in defiance of the "baboon patriarchy"--Ursula K. Le Guin's words--that had long dominated the genre, imagining futures that are still visionary. In this sequel to her groundbreaking 2018 anthology The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUTSummary: "A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023