by Robin Roberts
University of Illinois Press, 1993
Paper: 978-0-252-06284-1 | Cloth: 978-0-252-01983-8
Library of Congress Classification PS374.S35R6 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.0876209

ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This fascinating study is the first to examine the history of gender and science fiction and the first to discuss science fiction pulp magazines' images of women, as well as postmodernism and feminist science fiction. Robin Roberts begins with Shelley's Frankenstein, in which a female alien appears, and continues through H. G. Wells, the 1950s pulp science fiction magazines, Doris Lessing and feminist utopias, and the new generation of science fiction writers, including Joan Vinge, Sheila Finch, Vonda McIntyre, Ursula Le Guin, and Octavia Butler.