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.
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Plates
Acknowledgments
Introduction: New Work for New Women
1. AUTHORS
Clare Winger Harris—’The Evolutionary Monstrosity’ (1929)
Leslie F. Stone—’Out of the Void’ (1929)
Lilith Lorraine—’Into the 28th Century’ (1930)
L. Taylor Hansen—’The Man from Space’ (1930)
C. L. Moore—’Shambleau’ (1933)
Dorothy Gertrude Quick—’Strange Orchids’ (1937)
Amelia Reynolds Long—’Reverse Phylogeny’ (1937)
Leslie Perri—’Space Episode’ (1941)
Dorothy Louise Les Tina—’When You Think That… Smile!’ (1943)
2. POETS
JULIA BOYNTON GREEN
‘The Night Express’ (1931)
‘Evolution’ (1931)
‘Radio Revelations’ (1932)
VIRGINIA KIDD
‘Untitled’ (1933)
LEAH BODINE DRAKE
‘They Run Again’ (1939)
‘The Wood-Wife’ (1942)
‘Sea-Shell’ (1943)
TIGRINA
‘Defiance’ (1945)
‘Affinity’ (1945)
LILITH LORRAINE
‘Earthlight on the Moon’ (1941)
‘The Acolytes’ (1946)
‘Men Keep Strange Trysts’ (1946)
3. JOURNALISTS
ELLEN REED, FRAN MILES, HENRIETTA BROWN, LYNN STANDISH, AND LAURA MOORE WRIGHT
Ellen Reed, ‘Natural Ink’ (1942)
Fran Miles, ‘Oil for Bombing’ (1944)
Henrietta Brown, ‘Marine Engineering in the Insect World’ (1945)
Lynn Standish, ‘The Battle of the Sexes’ (1943)
Lynn Standish, ‘Scientific Oddities’ (1945)
Laura Moore Wright, ‘Sunlight’ (1946)
L. TAYLOR HANSEN
‘Scientific Mysteries: The White Race—Does It Exist?’ (1942)
‘Scientific Mysteries: Footprints of the Dragon’ (1944)
H. Malamud, I. Berkman, and H. Rogovin, ‘A Protest’ (1943)
L. Taylor Hansen, ‘L. Taylor Hansen Defends Himself’ (1943)
4. EDITORS
MARY GNAEDINGER
‘Editorial Note’ (1939)
‘The Editor’s Page’ (1940)
‘The Editor’s Page’ (1943)
DOROTHY STEVENS MCILWRAITH
‘The Eyrie’ (1940)
‘The Eyrie’ (1940)
‘The Eyrie’ (1941)
LILITH LORRAINE
‘Cracks—Wise and Otherwise’ (1943)
‘Training for World Citizenship’ (1946)
‘The Story of Different’ (1950)
5. ARTISTS
Olivette Bourgeois
Lucille Webster Holling
Margaret Johnson Brundage
Dorothy Louise Les Tina
Dolly Rackley Donnell
Conclusion: Challenging the Narrative, Or, Women Take Back Science Fiction—Kathleen Ann Goonan
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
Patrick B. Sharp is a professor and chair in the Department of Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.
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