About the Book
Go back to the Future Is Female in this all new collection of wildly entertaining stories by the trailblazing feminist writers who transformed American science fiction in the 1970s Imagine it, if you can bear to look back: long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the writing of science fiction (so the story goes) was an affair dominated by men, or what Ursula K. Le Guin once described as a "baboon patriarchy"--its female characters figments of adolescent fantasy, awaiting rescue in bronze brassieres, to be mansplained to about rocketry and ray guns. Now cut to the 1970s--the coming-of-age decade from which the 20 stories gathered here emerged--when it all changed. Following on The Future Is Female!, which traced the prehistory for women's science fiction from the 1920s to the 1960s, The Future Is Female! Vol. 2 presents the astonishingly brave and compelling stories of the women who remade the genre in the 1970s, including:
- Sonya Dorman, "Bitching It" (1971)
- Kate Wilhelm, "The Funeral" (1972)
- Joanna Russ, "When It Changed" (1972) NEBULA AWARD
- Miriam Allen deFord, "A Way Out"(1973)
- Vonda N. McIntyre, "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" (1973) NEBULA
- James Tiptree, Jr., "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (1973) HUGO AWARD
- Kathleen Sky, "Lament of the Keeku Bird" (1973)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974) NEBULA & LOCUS AWARD
- Eleanor Arnason, "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" (1974)
- Kathleen M. Sidney, "The Anthropologist" (1975)
- Marta Randall, "A Scarab in the City of Time" (1975)
- Elinor Busby, "A Time to Kill" (1977)
- Raccoona Sheldon, "The Screwfly Solution" (1977) NEBULA AWARD
- Pamela Sargent, "If Ever I Should Leave You" (1974)
- Joan D. Vinge, "View from a Height" (1978)
- M. Lucie Chin, "The Best Is Yet to Be" (1978)
- Lisa Tuttle, "Wives" (1979)
- Connie Willis, "Daisy, In the Sun" (1979)
About the Author: Lisa Yaszek, editor, is Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech and past president of the Science Fiction Research Association. She is the author of Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction (2008), and coeditor of Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (2016); she currently serves as a juror for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year and the Eugie Foster Memorial Award for the Best Speculative Story of the Year.
