The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895944200 ISBN 13: 9780895944207

Publisher: Crossing Pr

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From Publishers Weekly:

Scorning laser-wielding princesses who take second place to (and then marry) their space-age heroes, Sturgis's ( Memories and Visions ) strong collection of 16 feminist science fiction stories describes women who meet and master challenges. In Elaine Bergstrom's chilling "Net Songs," a woman defies the powers that be when she learns they maintain order by manipulating society's fear of sexually communicated disease. A divorced mother collects her alimony by raiding her wealthy ex-husband's trucks on their interstate hauls in G. K. Sprinkle's "Road Runner." In J. L. Comeau's "Firebird," a policewoman is the only member of a tactical assault team who can fight a drudep. 148 , or nightmare fiend, that exploits people's deepest fears. "Sahrel Short Swords," by Ginger Simpson Curry, depicts a woman who learns about empathy and humanity when a sorceress turns her into a moth. The journalist who narrates L. Timmel Duchamp's "The Forbidden Words of Margaret A." reports on her brief "photo-op" with a prisoner who is surrounded by armed guards and missiles because her subversive comments are powerful enough to destroy the U.S. government.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

In this collection of 16 stories (most previously unpublished) by women sf and fantasy writers, a policewoman's battle with an enemy becomes a journey into nightmare in J.L. Comeau's "Firebird"; a mother ponders the unplanned outcome of her daughter's life in Deborah H. Fruin's "New Age Baby"; and a poor girl takes a magical trip to the wealthy side of town in Rachel Pollack's "The Girl Who Went to the Rich Neighborhood." Eclectic in viewpoint, astereotypical in its feminist approach, this volume should appeal to a wide readership.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crossing Pr
• ISBN 10: 0895944200
• ISBN 13: 9780895944207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Editor: Sturgis Susanna J.