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No Woman Born

C. L. Moore

First published December 1944
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

Notes

OCR gives a word count of 19,600 for the Great SF Stories appearance. OCR of the magazine text is slightly higher.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2020 Retro Hugo Award Best Novelette Runner-up

Publications (56)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1944 Astounding Science Fiction, December 1944 Street & Smith Publications, Inc. MAGAZINE 134
March 1948 A Treasury of Science Fiction Crown Publishers Anthology 164
November 1948 A Treasury of Science Fiction Crown Publishers Anthology 164
March 1951 A Treasury of Science Fiction Crown Publishers Anthology 164
May 1951 Great Stories of Science Fiction Random House Anthology 155
1953 Great Stories of Science Fiction Cassell & Company Anthology
January 1955 Great Stories of Science Fiction The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) Anthology
February 1955 Best SF Faber and Faber Anthology 95
1958 Best SF Faber and Faber Anthology 95
1962 Best SF Faber and Faber Anthology 95
1962 Best SF Faber and Faber Anthology 95
1964 Tomorrow X 4 Gold Medal Books Anthology 89
1964 Best SF Faber and Faber Anthology 95
1964 Best SF Faber and Faber Anthology 95
1967 Tomorrow X 4 Coronet Books Anthology 89
1969 Best SF Faber and Faber Anthology 95
November 1975 Human-Machines: An Anthology of Stories About Cyborgs Vintage Books Anthology 61
November 1975 The Best of C. L. Moore Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Collection 200
March 1976 The Best of C. L. Moore Ballantine Books Collection 236
March 1976 The Best of C. L. Moore Ballantine Books Collection 236
1977 The Best of C. L. Moore Taplinger Collection 200
January 1977 Human-Machines: An Anthology of Stories About Cyborgs Robert Hale Anthology 61
March 1980 A Treasury of Science Fiction Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers Anthology 164
December 1980 The Best of C. L. Moore Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 236
January 1981 The Best of C. L. Moore Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 236
December 1981 The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 6, 1944 DAW Books Anthology 319
December 1981 The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 6, 1944 DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Anthology 319
1984 Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction: Third Series Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers Anthology 584
October 1987 Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder Warner Books Anthology 88
1988 Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology Harper & Row Anthology 154
November 1988 Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder Victor Gollancz Anthology 88
November 1988 Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder VGSF / Victor Gollancz Anthology 88
1989 The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940s Robinson Anthology 269
1989 The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940s Carroll & Graf Anthology 269
1989 The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940s Carroll & Graf Anthology 269
April 1989 Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder Warner Books Anthology 88
1991 Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction Galahad Books Anthology 231
1991 Science Fiction: Classic Stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction Galahad Books Anthology 231
1991 The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction Jaico Publishing House Anthology 269
August 1995 Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s Harvest / Harcourt Brace Anthology 21
August 2000 Science Fiction: Classic Stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction Galahad Books Anthology 231
March 2001 Science Fiction: 101 ibooks Anthology 134
May 2002 Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture The MIT Press Anthology 261
July 2005 Two-Handed Engine Centipede Press Collection 483
October 2005 Science Fiction: 101 ibooks Anthology 134
May 2006 Two-Handed Engine: The Selected Stories of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore Centipede Press / SFBC Collection 483
2007 The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction Robinson Anthology 283
2007 The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction Carroll & Graf Anthology 283
March 2010 Science Fiction: Classic Stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction Galahad Books Anthology 231
May 2014 Science Fiction: 101: Exploring the Craft of Science Fiction Roc / New American Library Anthology 121
May 2014 Science Fiction: 101: Exploring the Craft of Science Fiction Open Road Integrated Media Anthology |121
September 2015 The Best of C. L. Moore Diversion Books Collection |236
December 2020 We, Robots Ad Astra / Head of Zeus Anthology |514
December 2020 We, Robots Ad Astra / Head of Zeus Anthology |514
December 2021 We, Robots Apollo / Head of Zeus Anthology |514
September 2025 Robots: Past & Future: Short Stories Flame Tree Press Anthology 250