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A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women
These ten classic stories, each featuring well-developed, strong female characters, have garnered numerous literary awards and span every style and theme in speculative fiction.
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
October 1st 2001
by Aspect
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This anthology is a bit of a mixed bag.
There are a few classic stories that perhaps didn't need to be anthologized here in addition to all the other places I've come across them (e.g., Pat Murphy's "Rachel in Love," Vonda McIntyre's "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand," and Octavia Butler's "Speech Sounds"). I actually like those three stories, but I was hoping for more new (to me) women's science fiction.
Of the rest of the stories, there are four that were just okay (if that) and three that ranged f...more
There are a few classic stories that perhaps didn't need to be anthologized here in addition to all the other places I've come across them (e.g., Pat Murphy's "Rachel in Love," Vonda McIntyre's "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand," and Octavia Butler's "Speech Sounds"). I actually like those three stories, but I was hoping for more new (to me) women's science fiction.
Of the rest of the stories, there are four that were just okay (if that) and three that ranged f...more
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Ten stories from Asimov's and Analog magazine- including some giants of feminist speculative fiction.
Some are short stories set in existing worlds, some are stand alone.
The title story (which is more a novella) resonated a lot for me, as did "Rachel in Love" and "Speech Sounds." Most are pretty "heavy" reading: addressing the issues of sexism/racism/humanity (with the exception of "Even the Queen" - which is just silly.)
Contents are:
Intertia - Nancy Kress
Even the Queen - Connie Willis
Fool's Erra...more
Some are short stories set in existing worlds, some are stand alone.
The title story (which is more a novella) resonated a lot for me, as did "Rachel in Love" and "Speech Sounds." Most are pretty "heavy" reading: addressing the issues of sexism/racism/humanity (with the exception of "Even the Queen" - which is just silly.)
Contents are:
Intertia - Nancy Kress
Even the Queen - Connie Willis
Fool's Erra...more
Jun 15, 2009
Sarah
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
young women, geeks
Recommended to Sarah by:
my grandmother, of all people
This is a really lovely little collection of women's science fiction. By women's science fiction I of course mean SciFi written by women. It's perfect for me, the little geek who goes to a women's college. But it's also an excellent anthology of science fiction, spanning the genre from post-apocalypse, height of technology, freaky disease, and completely without context. Things handling social problems we have today, social problems that have existed in the past, and social problems we can only...more
SF, edited by Connie Willis and Sheila Williams. This right here is a rare thing. It's a good collection of short stories. I didn't love every story, but they all have something worthwhile in them, and the overall quality of the writing is quite high. It could hardly be anything else with these contributers:
Nancy Kress' Inertia -- a leper colony might be the safest place to be during a time of extended social unrest and a world living under martial law; Connie Willis' Even the Queen was easily...more
Nancy Kress' Inertia -- a leper colony might be the safest place to be during a time of extended social unrest and a world living under martial law; Connie Willis' Even the Queen was easily...more
A nice anthology of sf by women authors only. The only two I'd read before were the Vonda McIntyre and the Anne McCaffrey. I especially liked the Octavia Butler, about a plague that has robbed people of speech; and the Ursula Le Guin, about slavery and revolution and women's roles in them. The only one I didn't like was the Pat Murphy story, Rachel in Love. It's a nice collection that offers something for everyone and ranges from pure silliness (meh) to hard sf.
A great collection of sci-fi short stories about women, by women (which is REALLY difficult to find in a book even now!). This collection has all kinds of stories, from the "alien-other-planet" stuff to "future-on-earth-after-some-epidemic-etc." Ursula K. LeGuin's story at the end, titled "A Women's Liberation" is probably one of the best stories in the collection (and is probably more of a novella than a story), and makes me want to read more of her writing.
The stories were good but what has stuck with me is the Ursula K. LeGuin. It has lodged itself into my brain. It felt exciting and necessary to read it. That doesn't happen all that often. Her writing on slavery over the last decade has been powerful. But then I've felt that way about her writing since I was a child.
Awesome anthology including some classic stories that I enjoyed rereading (like Ursula LeGuin's "A Woman's Liberation," and Vonda McIntyre's "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand") as well as some that I hadn't read before and loved, like Nancy Kress's "Inertia" and Octavia Butler's "Speech Sounds". The stories took place in a wide variety of settings, and though all the stories had women as protagonists, some of them explicitly addressed "women's" or feminist issues, while others did not. Basically, th...more
Liked almost all of these short stories. I'd read many of the authors before. Will follow up on a couple and read more by all.
Excellent collection of science fiction stories about women who did something important.
Only read it for Le Guin's story and it is really beautiful.
Excellent collection of SF by women, covering a pretty broad span of styles, tones, and topics. Just a really good read, and a perfect suggestion for anyone who's looking for some of the most honored, if not neccesarily best known writers in the genre. Just to be clear, LeGuin, Butler, Willis, et alia, these are not obscure names, except to a reader quite new in the genre. And I know I was praising it just-the-other-day, but "Even the Queen" is also in this collection, and damn, but that's a fun...more
A solid book of science fiction written by women about women. I don't think there is a real clunker in the whole collection. The weakest, in my opinion, were Vonda N. McIntyre's Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand and Sarah Zettel's Fool's Errand. They weren't bad, I just didn't find them as compelling as some of the others. I'd read most of the authors before, but did find a couple (Connie Willis and S.N. Dyer) that made me want to seek out more of their work.
I wanted to like this more than I did, as I love Connie Willis and several of the stories in this collection are excellent. However, several of the stories were just plain boring, so it's rather a mixed bag.
Things I don't want to read again:
-That damned Vonda McIntyre story about the healer and her snakes
-Anything by Anne McCaffrey
Things I don't want to read again:
-That damned Vonda McIntyre story about the healer and her snakes
-Anything by Anne McCaffrey
This book caught my eye as I was doing some database clean up. Women and SF? A somewhat unusual combination. And since I was looking for something to read I grabbed it. The stories have all been good. How good? Good enough to make you regret seeing it end. Good enough to make one wonder what else this author has written.
May 20, 2008
SuperCat
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
everyone
Recommended to SuperCat by:
lemoncakes
The stories in this book are pretty much super. I especially liked the Connie Willis one. But even more than that, I have a lot of new authors to check out. Thanks to lemoncakes for the rec.
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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer. She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the 1980s and 1990s.
She has won, among other awards, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for All Seated on the Ground (August 2008). She was the 2011 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Ficti...more
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She has won, among other awards, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for All Seated on the Ground (August 2008). She was the 2011 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Ficti...more
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