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Women of Other Worlds: Excurions Through Science Fiction and Feminism

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WisCon and Tiptree.


A book that takes a look at women writing and involved with feminist science fiction. It is although an anthology of feminist science fiction stories.

If you aren't interested at all in the Tiptree award and how it was established, or likewise with WisCon and convention stuff like that, you will probably want to be interested in the stories to get it.

However, there is a range of non-fiction writing here from the anecdotal and amusing to the very dry academic, including a long reminiscence by Judith Merril, and a letter exchange between an Australian academic and Lois McMaster Bujold about her books.

It is basically completely focused on the USA, barring a little about some early UK female fans, despite being edited by Australians, so if you are looking for a 'more inclusive' look at the subject, you will likely be disapointed with that aspect.

The cover is pretty cool, if you think Eternity in Marvel comics, but in a bodysuit, not a cape and a long haired woman you will get the idea.

The stories here are reasonable - a 3.36 average, but the obviously are not the whole point of the exercise.

Certainly a book that is worth a look for those with more than a casual interest in SF, and obviously worth it for those with an interest in feminist SF.

Women Of Other Worlds : The Small Black Box of Morality - Eleanor Arnason
Women Of Other Worlds : And She Was the Word - Tess Williams
Women Of Other Worlds : And Salome Danced - Kelley Eskridge
Women Of Other Worlds : The Kidnapping of Baroness 5 - Katherine MacLean
Women Of Other Worlds : Home by the Sea - Elisabeth Vonarburg
Women Of Other Worlds : A Habit of Waste - Nalo Hopkinson
Women Of Other Worlds : Excerpt from The Freedom Maze - Delia Sherman
Women Of Other Worlds : Hush My Mouth - Suzette Haden Elgin
Women Of Other Worlds : The Universe of Things - Gwyneth Jones
Women Of Other Worlds : The Marianas Islands - Karen Joy Fowler
Women Of Other Worlds : Dvorzjak Symphony - Candas Jane Dorsey


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3.5 out of 5


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3.5 out of 5


Actor authentic in any role you like.

4 out of 5


Tech witch pig project purloining recovery.

3.5 out of 5


Working with artificial limitations.

3 out of 5


Thanksgiving slingshot surprise.

4 out of 5


Southern sendback sojourn.

3 out of 5


Southern New Africa's silent Babel problem.


Alienated mechanic.

3 out of 5


Submarine secret.

3 out of 5


Inside occupation.

3 out of 5