{"product_id":"the-future-is-female-volume-two-the-1970s-more-classic-science-fiction-stories-by-women-isbn-9781598537321","title":"The Future Is Female! Volume Two, The 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Stories By Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eGo 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1970s, feminist authors created a new mode of science fiction in defiance of the “baboon patriarchy”—Ursula Le Guin’s words—that had long dominated the genre, imagining futures that are still visionary. In this sequel to her groundbreaking 2018 anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Future is Female!: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin\u003c\/i\u003e, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek offers a time machine back to the decade when far-sighted rebels changed science fiction forever with stories that made female community, agency, and sexuality central to the American future. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are twenty-three wild, witty, and wonderful classics that dramatize the liberating energies of the 1970s:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSonya Dorman, “Bitching It” (1971) \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKate Wilhelm, “The Funeral” (1972)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJoanna Russ, “When It Changed” (1972) NEBULA AWARD \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMiriam Allen deFord, “A Way Out”(1973)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eVonda N. McIntyre,  “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand” (1973) NEBULA \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJames Tiptree, Jr., “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” (1973) HUGO AWARD \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKathleen Sky, “Lament of the Keeku Bird” (1973)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin, “The Day Before the Revolution” (1974) NEBULA \u0026amp; LOCUS AWARD \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eEleanor Arnason, “The Warlord of Saturn’s Moons” (1974)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKathleen M. Sidney, “The Anthropologist” (1975)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMarta Randall, “A Scarab in the City of Time” (1975) \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eElinor Busby, “A Time to Kill” (1977)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eRaccoona Sheldon, “The Screwfly Solution” (1977) NEBULA AWARD \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePamela Sargent, “If Ever I Should Leave You” (1974)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJoan D. Vinge, “View from a Height” (1978)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eM. Lucie Chin, “The Best Is Yet to Be” (1978)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLisa Tuttle, “Wives” (1979) \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eConnie Willis, “Daisy, In the Sun” (1979)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e“But for my money, the sci-fi event of the season is the second volume of the Library of America’s absorbing “The Future is Female” series. This installment focuses on short stories by women of the 1970s, the heyday of Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree Jr., the pseudonym of Chicagoan Alice Bradley Sheldon.” \u003cb\u003e—Christopher Borrelli, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribun\u003c\/i\u003ee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Yaszek has come up with a great mix . . . the real treat is in discovering some terrific but less well-known works by authors now largely forgotten.\" \u003cb\u003e—Alex Good, \u003ci\u003eThe Toronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Yaszek\u003c\/b\u003e, 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\u003ci\u003e Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction \u003c\/i\u003e(2008), and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (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.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300186935525,"sku":"NP9781598537321","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598537321.jpg?v=1767739453","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-future-is-female-volume-two-the-1970s-more-classic-science-fiction-stories-by-women-isbn-9781598537321","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}