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New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow

Janrae Frank & Jean Marie Stine & Forrest J Ackerman

First published 1994
Publisher Longmeadow Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Laura Freas
Pages xvii+427
Price $14.95
ISBN 0681005254

  • On copyright page: "First Longmeadow Press edition", printing line "0 9 8 ... 3 2 1", "Copyright (c) 1994", LCCN & ISBN.
  • $14.95 price and ISBN on jacket front flap. "Jacket illustration by Laura Freas" on back flap.
  • Stories are separated in blocks of twenty years. Per the editors' "Author's Note", the stories "were selected because they met at least one of three criterion, either they were representative of the author's work, the story's era, or a key theme in the evolution of science fiction's view of women and their place in the universe They were not chosen for political correctness."
  • Note that the Ursula K. Le Guin story "Winter's King" in this anthology is the author's revised version which was first published in her collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Part One: The 20s & 30s The Authors Essay
3 Friend Island Francis Stevens Short Story
15 The Man of Stone H. P. Lovecraft & Hazel Heald Short Story
29 The Conquest of Gola Leslie F. Stone Short Story
43 Honeycombed Satellite Helen Weinbaum Short Story
59 Part Two: The 40s The Authors Essay
61 Space Episode Leslie Perri Short Story
69 Water Pirate Leigh Brackett Short Story
83 Aleph Sub One Margaret St. Clair Short Story
97 Throwback Miriam Allen deFord Short Story
109 Part Three: The 50s The Authors Essay
111 The Putnam Tradition Sonya Dorman Short Story
119 All Cats Are Gray Andrew North Short Story
127 Subcommittee Zenna Henderson Novelette
145 Idol's Eye Carol Emshwiller Short Story
151 The Last Day Helen Clarkson Short Story
157 The Lady Was a Tramp Judith Merril Short Story
173 A Peculiar People Betsy Curtis Short Story
185 The Captain's Mate Evelyn E. Smith Short Story
195 Part Four: The 60s & 70s The Authors Essay
197 Sense of Duty Phyllis Eisenstein Short Story
209 Bluewater Dreams Sydney J. Van Scyoc Short Story
223 Death Between the Stars Marion Zimmer Bradley Short Story
237 The Snows Are Melted, the Snows Are Gone James Tiptree, Jr. Short Story
249 The Last Days of the Captain Kate Wilhelm Short Story
263 Changeling Anne McCaffrey Short Story
279 Fears Pamela Sargent Short Story
291 Gleepsite Joanna Russ Short Story
299 Winter's King Ursula K. Le Guin Novelette
317 Part Five: The 80s - and Beyond The Authors Essay
319 Symphony for a Lost Traveler Lee Killough Short Story
335 Speech Sounds Octavia E. Butler Short Story
349 The Missionary's Child Maureen F. McHugh Novelette
373 A Long Way Home Sheila Finch Short Story
387 The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things Karen Joy Fowler Short Story
399 California Dreamer Mary Rosenblum Short Story
415 Down Behind Cuba Lake Nancy Kress Short Story
vii Introduction (New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow) Janrae Frank & Jean Marie Stine & Forrest J Ackerman Essay
xvii Authors' Note (New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow) Jean Marie Stine & Janrae Frank & Forrest J Ackerman Essay