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Vintage (1978), Edition: 1st, 363 pages
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LibraryThing member monado
Not every story is outstanding, but some are unforgettable:
- "The Women Men Don't See," a novelette by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon), about VERY alienated women;
- "Screwtop," a novella by Vonda N. MacIntyre, about a prison planet (cover picture)
- "When it Changed," a short story by Joanna Russ,
- "Eyes of Amber," a novelette by Joan D. Vinge, about deadly politics as it is played on Titan.
- "Dead in Irons," a novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, about diaster in space.
There is also
- a send-up of feminism in "Songs of War" by Kit Read;
- "The Triumphant Head" by Josephine Saxton
- "The Heat Death Of The Universe" by Pamela Zoline (one of those Woman Slowly Going Crazy stories)
- "Debut" by Caroline Emshwiller
- "Building Block" by Sonya Dorman. An architect of luxurious space habitats finds that someone else is stealing her designs.
- "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" by Eleanor Arnason
- and a poem, "View from the Moon Station," by Sonya Dorman
- "The Women Men Don't See," a novelette by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon), about VERY alienated women;
- "Screwtop," a novella by Vonda N. MacIntyre, about a prison planet (cover picture)
- "When it Changed," a short story by Joanna Russ,
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about the arrival of men on a planet that had done without them for a long time; and- "Eyes of Amber," a novelette by Joan D. Vinge, about deadly politics as it is played on Titan.
- "Dead in Irons," a novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, about diaster in space.
There is also
- a send-up of feminism in "Songs of War" by Kit Read;
- "The Triumphant Head" by Josephine Saxton
- "The Heat Death Of The Universe" by Pamela Zoline (one of those Woman Slowly Going Crazy stories)
- "Debut" by Caroline Emshwiller
- "Building Block" by Sonya Dorman. An architect of luxurious space habitats finds that someone else is stealing her designs.
- "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" by Eleanor Arnason
- and a poem, "View from the Moon Station," by Sonya Dorman
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LibraryThing member noneofthis
Eh. I remember reading this years ago and enjoying the stories, but in reading them they didn't impress me much.
Notable stories include:
Screwtop by Vonda N. McIntyre | Prison planet politics; my favorite of the bunch and notable for author.
The Warlord of Saturn's Moons by Eleanor Arnason | Writer
When It Changed by Joanna Russ | A society of women successfully using parthonegenic reproduction encounter men. I would have liked this better if the ending had been more optimistic.
Other story summaries:
View From The Moon Station | Eh. Poem.
The Triumphant Head | Not even worth describing.
The Heat Death of The Universe | 54 snapshots, interesting if not lovely.
Songs of War | Depressing whiny crap.
The Women Men Don't See by James Tiptree Jr. | Women opt for life with aliens following plane-crash in Caribbean.
Debut | Women runs hunt for man, except that sounds more interesting.
Dead In Irons | Mystery in spaaaace.
Building Block | Engineer suffers setbacks.
Eyes of Amber | And what do with do with newly-found intelligent life? Put them on television. Of course.
Notable stories include:
Screwtop by Vonda N. McIntyre | Prison planet politics; my favorite of the bunch and notable for author.
The Warlord of Saturn's Moons by Eleanor Arnason | Writer
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fantasy world; fun look to the creative mind and notable for author.When It Changed by Joanna Russ | A society of women successfully using parthonegenic reproduction encounter men. I would have liked this better if the ending had been more optimistic.
Other story summaries:
View From The Moon Station | Eh. Poem.
The Triumphant Head | Not even worth describing.
The Heat Death of The Universe | 54 snapshots, interesting if not lovely.
Songs of War | Depressing whiny crap.
The Women Men Don't See by James Tiptree Jr. | Women opt for life with aliens following plane-crash in Caribbean.
Debut | Women runs hunt for man, except that sounds more interesting.
Dead In Irons | Mystery in spaaaace.
Building Block | Engineer suffers setbacks.
Eyes of Amber | And what do with do with newly-found intelligent life? Put them on television. Of course.
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LibraryThing member aulsmith
I enjoyed most of these stories. I reviewed them separately..
LibraryThing member moontyger
The subtitle refers to "recent" stories, but the book is copyrighted 1977, so recent is relative. This makes the introduction a fascinating historical article in itself, with reference to writers I know as established as being new and young. It's also unbelievably refreshing to see something openly
The stories themselves are overall good, though often depressing. The only one I am certain I had read before was Joanna Russ's "When It Changed", but it's always enjoyable to read again. "The Heat Death of the Universe" seemed vaguely familiar, but I'm not sure.
The opening story, "Screwtop" by Vonda N. McIntyre, is unfortunately the weakest of her works I have read. The writing seems amateurish and the story itself pointless, like merely an excerpt from a longer work. But she was just getting started at the time it was written and her writing did get better. The James Tiptree, Jr., story was brilliant, of course, and the introduction to it made a great point. And I also very much liked the Joan D. Vinge story, though I think it's questionable how well it truly fits this anthology.
Overall, though, I loved it. Well worth getting if you can manage it.
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acknowledged as a feminist project, with no denials or excuses. Sad that things have changed.The stories themselves are overall good, though often depressing. The only one I am certain I had read before was Joanna Russ's "When It Changed", but it's always enjoyable to read again. "The Heat Death of the Universe" seemed vaguely familiar, but I'm not sure.
The opening story, "Screwtop" by Vonda N. McIntyre, is unfortunately the weakest of her works I have read. The writing seems amateurish and the story itself pointless, like merely an excerpt from a longer work. But she was just getting started at the time it was written and her writing did get better. The James Tiptree, Jr., story was brilliant, of course, and the introduction to it made a great point. And I also very much liked the Joan D. Vinge story, though I think it's questionable how well it truly fits this anthology.
Overall, though, I loved it. Well worth getting if you can manage it.
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Awards
Otherwise Award (Shortlist)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1977
ISBN
0394724380 / 9780394724386