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Norton, André Alice, 335
novels. See authors
Obama, Barack, 349
O’Donnell, Lawrence, 164
“Oil for Bombing” (Miles), 267–68
“Ok, O Che? by K.” (Kidd), 247
Omni magazine, 359
ONE, Inc., 253
Ore, Rebecca, 7
Oriental Stories, 191, 332, 337–38
“Out of the Void” (Stone), 1, 4, 27–105, 365n10
outsider characters, in speculative fiction, 253
Owens, Thomas, 223
Padgett, Lewis, 164
Palmer, Raymond A., xvi–xvii, 142, 261–62, 264, 275, 366n6
Pantazos, Ione Athena, 142
Pantazos, Iwanne, 142
paranormal publications, 261
Patchwork Quilt sequence (Quick), 191
Paul, Frank R., 334, 340, 368n7
Pauli, Wolfgang, 347
Perri, Leslie, xxi, 3, 4, 5, 6, 223–24, 230
Persephone of Eleusis (C. W. Harris), 8
“Pictures in a Fire” (Proctor), 238
Piercy, Marge, 7
Pinckard, Tom and Terri, 164
Pinker, Steven, 349
PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), 349, 353
“The Planners” (Wilhelm), 345
Playboy magazine, 351
Poe, Edgar Allen, 165, 237
poetry: “The Acolytes” (Lorraine), 257–58; “Affinity” (Tigrina), 255; Challenge magazine, xviii, 106, 239; “Defiance” (Tigrina), 254–55; Drake, xvi, xxii, 240–41, 249–50, 253–54, 298; “Earthlight on the Moon” (Lorraine), 257; “Evolution” (Green), 244; fantastic, xxii; Green, xvi–xvii, xxii, 239, 240, 242–43, 248, 365nn3–4; Kidd, xvi, xviii–xix, 6, 239, 240–41, 247–48, 365n6; Lilith Lorraine, 237, 240, 256–58 (see also Lorraine, Lilith); “Men Keep Strange Trysts” (Lorraine), 258; “The Night Express” (Green), 243–44; “Radio Revelations” (Green), 244–46; “Sea-Shell” (Drake), 252; seditious speculative, xvi, 106; speculative, 237–43; “They Run Again” (Drake), 250–51; Tigrina (Edith Eyde), xvi, xviii, xxii, 241, 253–54, 365–66nn8–9; “Untitled” (Kidd), 248; “The Wood-Wife” (Drake), 251–52
Poetry Chapbook, 249
Poetry Society of America, 249
Pohl, Frederik, 223, 230, 239, 301, 341
political expression: art connected with, xvi; in magazines, 291–92, 300; science fiction as form of, xx
Popular Publications, 230, 341
post-singularity science fiction, 242
Pound, Ezra, 292
power relations, men and women in, 7
Poyser-Lisi, Victoria, 331, 335, 340
“The Priestess of Pakmari” (De Pina), 342
Proctor, Adelaide, 238, 243, 249
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), 349, 353
“prophetic” poetry, 240
“prophet of doom,” science fiction as, xx
“A Protest” (Malamud and Rogovin), 286–88
pseudoscience, 5
“Quest of the Starstone” (Moore and Kuttner), 164
Quick, Dorothy Gertrude, xxi, 2–3, 5, 6, 9, 191–92, 249, 253–54, 333, 340, 349, 368n9
Quinn, John, 292
Quinn, Seabury, 307
racism, scientific, xvii, 263
Radcliffe, Anne, 3
“Radio Revelations” (Green), 244–46
Ralph 124C41+ (Gernsback), 2
Rambo, Cat, 300
Raven magazine, 256
reader preferences, editorial decisions based on, 292–93, 301
Reed, Ellen, xxii, 263, 264, 265–67, 278
Reid, Robin Anne, 363n7
“Reinventing the Wheelhouse” (Henderson), 368–69n1
reporting: gay news, xvi, xviii; hierarchical model of, xxii; lesbian journalism, 253, 365–66n8; on science, xxii. See also journalists
reproductive technologies, 7, 9
Resnick, Mike, 357–58
“Reverse Phylogeny” (Long), 3, 213–22
Reynolds, Adrian or Peter (A. R. Long), xvi, xx–xxi, 3, 212–13
Rhees, David J., 260
Ritter, William E., 259
Roberts, Robin, 363n7
Robinson, Kim Stanley, 7
rocket propulsion, description of, 26
Rogovin, H., 278, 286–88
romance, in science fiction, 2
Rose, Billy, 249
Rossetti, Christina, 238, 241, 243
“A Runaway World” (C. W. Harris), 8
Rupert, Margaret F., 106
Russ, Joanna, 7, 224, 344, 350, 353
Ryman, Geoff, 7
Sargent, Pamela, xxi, 300
Saturday Evening Post, 249
Saving Worlds (Kidd and Elwood), 247
Schrödinger, Werner, 347
science: journalism on, xxii; patriarchal impulses of, xxi; science fiction as extrapolation of, xvii, 9; women writers, 366n2; writers’ interest in, xviii
science fiction: ancient mysteries in, 142; apocalyptic futures in, 8; conclusion overview, 343–45; meaning and value debate on, 1; nuclear weapons’ impact on, 26; post-singularity, 242; socially oriented, 294; “thought-variant,” 212, 223, 230; women as artists of, 361–62; women as writers, editors, and readers of, 345–61
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, xxiii, 346
Science Fiction magazine, 230
Science Fiction Plus, 341
Science Fiction Poets of America, 237
Science Fiction Quarterly, 230, 334
Science Wonder Quarterly, 106–7
Scientific American, 261
“Scientific Mysteries” column in Amazing Stories, 262, 275
“Scientific Mysteries: Footprints of the Dragon” (L. T. Hansen), 282–86
“Scientific Mysteries: The White Race—Does It Exist?” (L. T. Hansen), 278–82
“Scientific Oddities” (Standish), 271–73
“Scientific Oddities” column in Amazing Stories, 262, 266
scientific racism, xvii, 263
Scripps, Edward W., 259–60
“Sea-Shell” (Drake), 252
The Secret Feminist Cabal (Merrick), 363–64n7
seditious speculative poetry, xvi, 106
SFWA Bulletin, 356–58, 368–69n1
“Shambleau” (Moore), 2–3, 166–90
Shaver, Richard, 264, 366n6
Shaver Mystery stories, 264, 366n6
Sheldon, Alice, 7, 350–51
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, xv, 3, 5, 8–9, 143, 191, 242
Short Stories, Inc., 306
Silberberg, Leslie Frances, xv. See also Stone, Leslie F.
Silverberg, Robert, 298, 350
Simak, Clifford, 344
Sky & Telescope magazine, 365n3
Sloane, T. O’Conor, xvii, xx, 2, 143, 261, 292, 348
Slosson, Edwin E., 260
Smith, Clark Ashton, 239, 256
Smith College, xviii, 8, 364n6
Sneyd, Steve, 106, 247, 249
social activism, xvi
socially oriented science fiction, 294
social sciences: in Different magazine, 298; in science fiction, 3; science fiction as extrapolation of, 9; in “When You Think That … Smile!,” 230
Soft as Steel (Bell), 335
The Song of Roland (Wright), 366n5
South Side Community Art Center (Chicago), 338
“Space Episode” (Perri), 3, 5, 224–29
Space Fact and Fiction, 223
space flight, 3, 26
speculative ideas, as story drivers, 3
Spinrad, Norman, 164
Spivack, Charlotte, 238
Sprenger, William, 338
Stackpole Books, 212
Standish, Lynn, xxii, 262–63, 265–67, 269, 271, 278
Stardust magazine, 212
Starlanes magazine, 239
Startling Stories, 334, 340, 342
St. Clair, Margaret, 294
Stefans, Brian Kim, 242
Stellar poetry movement, 239, 256
STEM professions, 352–53
Sterling, Bruce, 7
Stevens, Francis, 294, 301
Stine, Jean, 223
Stirling, George, 239
Stirring Science Stories, 257
Stone, Leslie F., xv–xvii, xix–xxi, 1–2, 4, 5, 6, 26–27, 106, 143, 231, 248, 349, 365n10
“The Story of Different” (Lorraine), 320–30
Strange Awakenings (Quick), 191
“Strange Orchids” (Quick), 2–3, 5, 192–211, 333, 340
Streitmatter, Rodger, 253
Sturgeon, Theodore, 294
Summers, Larry, 349
“Sunlight” (Wright), 273–74, 366n5
“super-race” of humans, 106–7
symbolism, in poetry, 237
Taine, John, xix
Tarrant, Catherine “Kay,” 290, 292
tastemakers, women as, 240
taxonomy of science fiction themes, 9
technocultural people, xxi
technophilic tradition in SF art, xxiii, 331, 333–34, 341–42
telepathy, 3, 106
The Testimony of the Suns (Stirling), 239
“They Run Again” (Drake), 250–51
This Enchanted Coast (Green), 242
Thomas, Reggie, 164
“The Thought Monster” (Long), 212
thought-variant science fiction, 3, 212, 223, 230
“A Thousand Deaths” (London), 336
“A Thrilling Tale of Burma” (Miller), 332
Thrilling Wonder Stories, 334, 340, 342
Tigrina (Edith Eyde), xvi, xviii, xxii, 241, 253–54, 365–66nn8–9
The Time Stream (Taine), xix
Tiptree, James, Jr., 7, 224, 250, 350–51
Tiptree Award, 346
Tor.com, 352, 359
“Training for World Citizenship” in Different (Lorraine), 315–19
Tremaine, F. Orlin, 3, 212, 223
trend-setting nature of magazines, 291
Twain, Mark, 191
University of Vienna, 347
Unknown magazine, 191, 365n2
“Untitled” (Kidd), 248
utopian fiction: feminist, 4–5; Gernsback and, xvii; as high-tech future, 2; inspiration from, xxi; in “Into the 28th Century,” 106
Vagabond magazine (Indiana University), 164
Vandermeer, Ann, 300
Vanguard Amateur Press Association, xviii, 247
Van Vogt, A. E., 164
Varley, John, 7
Verne, Jules, xix, 8
Vice Versa magazine, xviii, 253
Victory Verses (Wright), 366n5
video game covers, art for, 335
Virginia Kidd Literary Agency, 247
visual art, in science fiction, xxiii. See also artists in science fiction
Vombiteur Littéraire, 223
Von Braun, Werner, 348
Wainwright Carter T., 366n4
Walsh, Joan, 354
Warm Worlds and Otherwise (Tiptree), 350
Warner, Susan, 6
Warner Brothers Studios, 164
Watson, James, 348
Weaver, Harriet Shaw, 291
“We Have Always Fought” (Hurley), 359
Weinbaum, Batya, xix
Weinbaum, Stanley G., 365n10
Weir, Mordred (A. R. Long), xvi, xx–xxi, 3, 212–13
Weird Tales: D. McIlwraith as editor of, 290, 300, 367n7; Drake’s poetry in, 249–52; example table of contents (1942), 296; experimental poetry forms in, 239–40; “The Eyrie,” 293, 308–13; Long’s stories in, 212; “mad scientist” characters in, 5; M. Brundage as artist for, xx, 332; Quick’s stories in, 191–92; “A Runaway World” (C. W. Harris), 8; science fiction in, 2; “Shambleau” (Moore), 164–66; Stone’s stories in, 26; women as contributors to, xvii–xviii
Wells, H. G., xix, 8, 259, 366n1
Western Producer, 366n5
“Weyr Search” (McCaffrey), 345
“When You Think That … Smile!” (Les Tina), 3–4, 231–36
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, 352
“The White Sawbwa of Möng Nam” (Miller), 337
Whitman, Walt, 237
The Wide, Wide World (Warner), 6
Wilber, Rick, 360
Wilhelm, Kate, 345
Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 239, 242
William Penn Museum (Harrisburg, PA), xvi, 212
Williams, Sheila, 351, 360–61
Williams, William Carlos, 292
Willis, Connie, 356, 359
Wilson, Richard, 223
Wine of Wonder (Lorraine), 237, 240, 256
Withrow, Laura, 294, 301
Wolfe, Gene, 247
Women Destroy Science Fiction! in Lightspeed magazine, 359
Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Reid), 363n7
Women of Wonder (Sargent), xxi
Wonder Stories, xvii, xix, 9, 26
“The Wood-Wife” (Drake), 251–52
World Science Fiction Convention of 1939, 223
Wright, Farnsworth, xvii, 2, 165, 191, 239, 292–93, 306, 332, 337–39
Wright, Laura Moore, xxii, 263, 265–67, 273, 366n5
Wright, Mary Maude, 106. See also Lorraine, Lilith
“yellow peril” stories, 333
Yolen, Jane, 243
Ziff-Davis, Inc., 261–62, 264
THE WESLEYAN EARLY CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION SERIES
GENERAL EDITOR Arthur B. Evans
The Centenarian
Honoré de Balzac
We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity
Anindita Banerjee
Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain
Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, eds.
The Coming Race
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Imagining Mars: A Literary History
Robert Crossley
Caesar’s Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
Ignatius Donnelly
Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction
Arthur B. Evans, ed.
Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology
Peter Fitting, ed.
Lumen
Camille Flammarion
The Time Ship: A Chrononautical Journey
Enrique Gaspar
The Last Man
Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville
The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
Rachel Haywood Ferreira
The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
Justine Larbalestier
The Yellow Wave: A Romance of the Asiatic Invasion of Australia
Kenneth Mackay
The Moon Pool
A. Merritt
Castaway Tales: From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi
Christopher Palmer
Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
John Rieder
The Twentieth Century
Albert Robida
Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory to the End of Mankind
J.-H. Rosny aîné
The Black Mirror and Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany and Austria
Franz Rottensteiner, ed., and Mike Mitchell, tr.
The Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel
Nicholas Ruddick
The World as It Shall Be
Emile Souvestre
Star Maker
Olaf Stapledon
The Begum’s Millions
Jules Verne
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Jules Verne
Invasion of the Sea
Jules Verne
The Kip Brothers
Jules Verne
The Mighty Orinoco
Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne
Travel Scholarships
Jules Verne
H. G. Wells: Traversing Time
W. Warren Wagar
Star Begotten
H. G. Wells
Deluge
Sydney Fowler Wright
Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction
Lisa Yaszek and Patrick B. Sharp, eds.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Lisa Yaszek is professor and associate chair in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Yaszek has been a recipient of the SFRA Pioneer Award for outstanding scholarship and recently received Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen Legacy Award for leadership in her chosen field of research. Her essays on science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, cultures and continents appear in journals such as Foundation, NWSA Journal, and Rethinking History. She is the author of Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction and the editor of the anthology Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre. Her webpage is http://pwp.gatech.edu/lyaszek/.
Patrick Sharp is professor and chair of liberal studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of Savage Pearls: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture and the editor of Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality. He has also published articles on nuclear narratives, gender, and science fiction in journals such as Twentieth Century Literature and Science Fiction Film and Television.
Kathleen Ann Goonan, a Professor of the Practice at Georgia Institute of Technology, is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels, including her groundbreaking Nanotech Quartet: the New York Times Notable Book Queen City Jazz, the Darrell Award winner Mississippi Blues, and Nebula Award finalists Crescent City Rhapsody and Light Music. In War Times won the John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2007 and was the American Library Association’s Best SF Novel of 2007. Her most recent novel is This Shared Dream. She has published over fifty stories in such places as Discover Magazine, Asimov’s, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and numerous Best of Year anthologies, some of which are collected in Angels and You Dogs. Her most recent academic work appeared in SFRA Review and in Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds, edited by Russell Blackford and Damien Broderick. Her web site is www.goonan.com.
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