Currently reading a book I picked up in Ocean City last year (for $1.79); it's
Women of Wonder, a 1974 anthology of "science fiction stories by women about women" edited by Pamela Sargent. (Amazon didn't seem to have any in stock, so that link is there just for the sake of showing you the cover art;
this larger, later collection has many of the same stories in it, as far as I can tell.)
Judith Merril:
That Only a MotherKatherine MacLean:
ContagionMarion Zimmer Bradley:
The Wind PeopleAnne McCaffrey:
The Ship Who SangSonya Dorman:
When I Was Miss DowKit Reed:
The Food FarmKate Wilhelm:
Baby, You Were GreatCarol Emshwiller:
Sex and/or Mr. MorrisonUrsula K. Le Guin:
Vaster Than Empires and More SlowChelsea Quinn Yarbro:
False DawnJoanna Russ:
Noboby's HomeVonda N. McIntyre:
Of Mist, and Grass, and SandYou might recognize a few of these names; the first story was the only story by a female to appear in
Robert Silverberg's Science Fiction Hall of Fame (with the half-way exception of
C.L. Moore, whose stories
Vintage Season and
Mimsy Were the Borogoves were co-written with her husband, Henry Kuttner - the first as "Lawrence O'Donnell", and the second as "Lewis Padgett").
After the discussion over in Podcastle about
fantasy women, I feel a bit of pressure to really dig these stories, but they are very dated, and tend to feel "overly feminist" (as in, the theme feels forced, and the situations contrived to make a point at the expense of logic and science), while simultaneously perpetuating the kinds of stereotypes that my modern tastes reject as misogynistic. So far the only one I've really enjoyed is the Anne McCaffrey... but I've still got a ways to go.
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