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The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers
| Author: | Mike Ashley |
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Dover Publications, 2015 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Featuring hard-to-find short stories published between 1873 and 1930, this original anthology spotlights a variety of important sci-fi pioneers, including Ethel Watts Mumford, Edith Nesbit, and Clare Winger Harris. Imaginative scenarios include a feminist society in another dimension, the east/west division of the United States with men and women on opposite sides, a man who converts himself into a cyborg, a drug that confers superhuman qualities, and many other curious situations.
Editor Mike Ashley provides an informative introduction to the stories. Highlights include "When Time Turned" (1901), which centers on a grieving widower who contrives to relive his life backwards; "The Painter of Dead Women" (1910), the tale of a woman in thrall to a Svengali-like character who promises to preserve her beauty forever; "The Automaton Ear" (1876), in which an inventor struggles to create a machine to detect sounds from the distant past; "Ely's Automatic Housemaid" (1899), a lighthearted fable concerning a robot housemaid; and ten other captivating tales.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Forgotten Pioneers - (2015) - essay by Mike Ashley
- When Time Turned - (1901) - shortstory by Ethel Watts Mumford
- The Painter of Dead Women - (1910) - shortstory by Edna W. Underwood
- The Automaton Ear - (1873) - novelette by Florence McLandburgh
- Ely's Automatic Housemaid - (1899) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bellamy
- The Ray of Displacement - (1903) - novelette by Harriet Prescott Spofford
- Those Fatal Filaments - (1903) - shortstory by Mabel Ernestine Abbott
- The Third Drug - (1908) - shortstory by E. Nesbit
- A Divided Republic: An Allegory of the Future - (1887) - shortstory by Lillie Devereux Blake
- Via the Hewitt Ray - (1930) - novelette by M. F. Rupert
- The Great Beast of Kafue - (1917) - shortstory by Clotilde Graves
- Friend Island - (1918) - shortstory by Francis Stevens
- The Artificial Man - (1929) - shortstory by Clare Winger Harris
- Creatures of the Light - (1930) - novelette by Sophie Wenzel Ellis
- The Flying Teuton - (1917) - shortstory by Alice Brown
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