Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (Early Classics Of Science Fiction) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819576239 ISBN 13: 9780819576231

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2016

Synopsis

For nearly half a century, feminist scholars, writers, and fans have successfully challenged the notion that science fiction is all about "boys and their toys," pointing to authors such as Mary Shelley, Clare Winger Harris, and Judith Merril as proof that women have always been part of the genre. Continuing this tradition, Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction offers readers a comprehensive selection of works by genre luminaries, including author C. L. Moore, artist Margaret Brundage, and others who were well known in their day, including poet Julia Boynton Green, science journalist L. Taylor Hansen, and editor Mary Gnaedinger. Providing insightful commentary and context, this anthology documents how women in the early twentieth century contributed to the pulp-magazine community and showcases the content they produced, including short stories, editorial work, illustrations, poetry, and science journalism. Yaszek and Sharp's critical annotation and author biographies link women's work in the early science fiction community to larger patterns of feminine literary and cultural production in turn-of-the-twentieth-century America. In a concluding essay, the award-winning author Kathleen Ann Goonan considers such work in relation to the history of women in science and engineering and to the contemporary science fiction community itself.

Hardcover is un-jacketed.

About this title

About the Author

LISA YASZEK is a professor and associate chair in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. PATRICK B. SHARP is a professor and chair in the Department of Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.

Review

"Lisa Yaszek & Patrick B. Sharp's Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction represents an ambitious effort to bring to light not only the women writers of the era, but editors, artists, poets, and journalists was well. It is as complete a picture as we're likely to get, both as anthology and as critical work, of the role of women in the field between roughly 1929 to 1945."--Gary K. Wolfe "Locus" (1/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)

"Sisters of Tomorrow is a fascinating look at a group of writers whose work is often forgotten. The decision to include journalists, editors, artists and poets highlights the role of women not only in SF literature but, equally importantly, in the genre's community."--James Holloway "Fortean Times" (6/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)

"[A] well-constructed collection of fascinating material."--Roz Kaveney "Times Literary Supplement" (10/13/2017 12:00:00 AM)

"There's a lot of great reading here for any fan of the [Science Fiction] pupls, casual or fanatic. My only regret is that there aren't additional volumes."--John O'Neill "Black Gate Magazine" (7/11/2017 12:00:00 AM)

Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0819576239
• ISBN 13: 9780819576231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Yaszek Lisa, Sharp Patrick B.