Women have long held a pivotal role in science fiction, shaping the genre with their innovative storytelling. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is widely accepted as the first science fiction novel ever written. From the very beginning many of science fiction, fantasy, and horror's best, most influential writers have been female. Collected here in this captivating, five hundred page anthology are nineteen stories from visionary women of the golden age. Included are:
Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett
Robots of the World! Arise! by Mari Wolf
I'll Kill You Tomorrow by Helen Huber
The Tree of Life by C. L. Moore
The Monkey Spoons by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
The Lost Gods by Dorothy Quick
Each Man Kills by Victoria Glad
Way Station by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Mop-Head by Leah Bodine Drake
Exile from Space by Judith Merril
Contagion by Katherine MacLEAN
Piety by Margaret St. Clair
Bride of the Dark One by Florence Verbell Brown
Shatter the Wall by Sydney Van Scyoc
The Ignoble Savages by Evelyn E. Smith
Grove of the Unborn by Lyn Venable
No Pets Allowed by M. A. Cummings
The Putnam Tradition by Sonya Dorman
Star Hunter by Andre Norton