Release date: March 1, 2022
Subgenre: Silver Age Science Fiction, Anthology
About Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women Volume 2 (1953-1957):
Women write science fiction. They always have.
Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1953-1957) offers,
quite simply, some of the best science fiction ever written: 20 amazing
pieces, most of which haven’t been reprinted for decades…but should have
been. Whether you are a long-time fan or new to the genre, you are in
for a treat.
This collection of works—18 stories, 1 poem, 1 nonfiction piece—are a
showcase, some of the best science fiction stories of the ’50s. These
stories were selected not only as examples of great writing, but also
because their characters are as believable, their themes just as
relevant today, their contents just as fun to read, as when they were
written almost three quarters of a century ago.
Dig in. Enjoy these newly-rediscovered delicacies a few at a time…or binge them all at once!
Excerpt
When did women start writing science fiction?
If you ask some people this question, they’ll tell you that women
started to break into science fiction around the time of Ursula K.
LeGuin or Octavia Butler. If you ask others, they’ll claim that the
dearth of women writing in science fiction in the past is exaggerated,
that plenty of women were publishing stories, and that they’ve always
been equal “partners in wonder”.
Many modern readers ignore science fiction entirely if it was published
before, say, 1980 or 1990, or some other arbitrary year after which
science fiction supposedly suddenly became more diverse and less of a
straight white men’s club.
The truth is, as always, more complicated than any simple reduction. The
number of women writing and publishing science fiction has both waxed
and waned ever since the genre became a recognized genre, and even
before—as any SF historian will be quick to tell you, Mary Shelley’s
“Frankenstein” is now widely recognized as the ‘first’ science fiction
novel…
…
Women have always been a part of science fiction’s history, and while
science fiction stories by women were neither as common as some would
have you believe, neither were they so rare as some claim. As the
stories collected herein prove, Joanna Russ and Anne McCaffrey were not
born in a vacuum, and good, diverse, interesting science fiction did not
suddenly begin in 1980, 1990, or at the beginning of the new
millennium. Join us in Rediscovering these stories and you’ll be
surprised at how many of them resonate with the world of today.
About Gideon Marcus:
Gideon Marcus is the founder of the Serling
Award-winning and twice Hugo-nominated historical web project, Galactic
Journey, Gideon Marcus is a science fiction writer and space historian.
His
alternate history story, “Andy and Tina,” is the lead tale in the
Sidewise-nominated anthology, Tales from Alternate Earths 2. He lives in
the San Diego area with his wife and their prodigy daughter as well as a
matched
pair of cats.
About Journey Press:
Founded in 2019 by
Galactic Journey's Gideon Marcus, Journey Press
distributes anthologies of the very best science fiction with an
emphasis on the unusual and the diverse. We also partner with other
small presses to offer exciting titles we know you'll like!
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