Sisters Of The Revolution

Description

Sisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Including stories from the 1970s to the present day, the collection seeks to expand the conversation about feminism while engaging the reader in a wealth of imaginative ideas. Sisters of the Revolution seeks to expand the ideas of both contemporary fiction and feminism to new fronts.

Sujets

• Short story
• Science fiction

Informations

• Publié par: PM Press
• Date de parution: 03 juillet 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781629630540
• Langue: English

Extrait

Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology
edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
editorial assistants: Tessa Kum and Dominik Parisien
ISBN: 9781629630359
Library of Congress Control Number: 2014908072
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology © PM Press 2015 Collection, introduction and story notes ©2015 by VanderMeer Creative
This is a work of collected fiction. All events portrayed in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form without the express permission of the publisher.
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"The Forbidden Words of Margaret A." by L. Timmel Duchamp. © 1980. First published in Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine No.8 . Reprinted by permission of the author.
"My Flannel Knickers" by Leonora Carrington. © 1988. First published in The Seventh Horse and Other Tales (Dutton Adult). Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
"The Mothers of Shark Island" by Kit Reed. © 1998. First published in Weird Women, Wired Women (Wesleyan). Reprinted by permission of the author.
"The Palm Tree Bandit" by Nnedi Okorafor. © 2000. First published in Strange Horizons . Reprinted by permission of the author.
"The Grammarian’s Five Daughters" by Eleanor Arnason. © 1999. First published in Realms of Fantasy . Reprinted by permission of the author.
"And Salome Danced" by Kelley Eskridge. © 1994. First published in Little Deaths (Dell). Reprinted by permission of the author.
"The Perfect Married Woman" by Angélica Gorodischer. © 1992. First published in Secret Weavers . Reprinted by permission of the author.
"The Glass Bottle Trick" by Nalo Hopkinson. © 2000. First published in Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction (Invisible Cities Press). Reprinted by permission of the author.
"Their Mother’s Tears: The Fourth Letter" by Leena Krohn. © 2004. First published in Tainaron (Prime Books). Reprinted by permission of the author.
"The Screwfly Solution" by James Tiptree, Jr. © 1977. First published in Analog . Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
"Seven Losses of na Re " by Rose Lemberg. © 2012. First published in Daily Science Fiction . Reprinted by permission of the author.
"The Evening the Morning and the Night" by Octavia E. Butler. © 1987. First published in Omni Magazine . Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
"The Sleep of Plants" by Anne Richter. © 1967. Originally published in Tenants , 1967. Translated by Edward Gauvin. Reprinted by permission of the translator.
"The Men Who Live in Trees" by Kelly Barnhill. © 2008. First published in Postscripts 15 . Reprinted by permission of the author.
"Tales from the Breast" by Hiromi Goto. © 1995. First published in absinthe (Winter 1995). Reprinted by permission of the author.
"The Fall River Axe Murders" by Angela Carter. © 1981. Reproduced by permission of The Estate of Angela Carter c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN.
"Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" by Pat Murphy. © 1990. First published in Alien Sex . Reprinted by permission of the author.
"When It Changed" by Joanna Russ. © 1972. First published in Again, Dangerous Visions , ed. Harlan Ellison. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
"The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet" by Vandana Singh. © 2003. First published in Trampoline (Small Beer Press). Reprinted by permission of the author.
"Gestella" by Susan Palwick. © 2001. First published in Starlight 3 (2001) Tor Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
"Boys" by Carol Emshwiller. © 2003. First published in SCIFICTION . Reprinted by permission of the author.
"Stable Strategies for Middle Management" by Eileen Gunn. © 1988. First published in Asimov’s June 1988 . Reprinted by permission of the author.
"Northern Chess" by Tanith Lee. © 1979. First published in Women as Demons . Reprinted by permission of the author.
"Aunts" by Karin Tidbeck. © 2011. First published in ODD 2011 and reprinted in Karin Tidbeck’s Jagannath (Cheeky Frawg Books). Reprinted by permission of the author.
"Sur" by Ursula K. Le Guin. © 1982. First published in The New Yorker . Reprinted by permission of the author.
"Fears" by Pamela Sargent. © 1984. First published in Light Years and Dark (Berkely Books). Reprinted by permission of the author.
"Detours on the Way to Nothing" by Rachel Swirsky. © 2008. First published in Weird Tales . Reprinted by permission of the author.
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time" by Catherynne M. Valente. © 2010. First published in Clarkesworld, Issue #47, August 2010 . Reprinted by permission of the author.
"Home by the Sea" by Élisabeth Vonarburg. © 1985. First published in Tesseracts 1 . Reprinted by permission of the author.
Contents
Introduction
The Forbidden Words of Margaret A.
L. Timmel Duchamp
My Flannel Knickers
Leonora Carrington
The Mothers of Shark Island
Kit Reed
The Palm Tree Bandit
Nnedi Okorafor
The Grammarian’s Five Daughters
Eleanor Arnason
And Salome Danced
Kelley Eskridge
The Perfect Married Woman
Angélica Gorodischer
The Glass Bottle Trick
Nalo Hopkinson
Their Mother’s Tears: The Fourth Letter
Leena Krohn
The Screwfly Solution
James Tiptree, Jr.
Seven Losses of na Re
Rose Lemberg
The Evening and the Morning and the Night
Octavia E. Butler
The Sleep of Plants
Anne Richter
The Men Who Live in Trees
Kelly Barnhill
Tales from the Breast
Hiromi Goto
The Fall River Axe Murders
Angela Carter
Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates
Pat Murphy
When It Changed
Joanna Russ
The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet
Vandana Singh
Gestella
Susan Palwick
Boys
Carol Emshwiller
Stable Strategies for Middle Management
Eileen Gunn
Northern Chess
Tanith Lee
Aunts
Karin Tidbeck
Sur
Ursula K. Le Guin
Fears
Pamela Sargent
Detours on the Way to Nothing
Rachel Swirsky
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time
Catherynne M. Valente
Home by the Sea
Élisabeth Vonarburg
Acknowledgments
The editors would like to thank Jef Smith for the vision to conceive of this project. Also thanks to Jef for coming to us with this project, for overseeing it, and for skillfully handing the story permissions. Thanks to all the good people at PM Press for publishing it. Special and heartfelt thanks to all the contributors to the Kickstarter project, especially the writer Marcus Ewert who was right there with us in the online trenches drumming up support and additional monies during the final hours of the Kickstarter deadline.
Additional thanks to Tessa Kum and Dominik Parisien who joined us on this adventure as editorial assistants, who continue to assist us in navigating the oceans of various slush piles, offer suggestions and opinions, and act as sounding boards for our outlandish ideas.
A book like this cannot exist without the writers and their wonderful stories. We thank not only those writers whose work you find in these pages, but all the writers who continue to write despite daunting obstacles and an ever-changing and sometimes unwelcoming publishing landscape. Thanks as well to all the people who support the work: agents, estates, family, partners, friends, readers, and fans. Thanks for giving feminist writers not just a room of their own but an entire world.
Introduction
Some anthologies are canon-defining. Others are treasuries or compendiums, baggy and vast. Still others, like Sisters of the Revolution , serve as a contribution to an ongoing conversation. For decades, editors have put forward anthologies that capture the pulse of feminist speculative fiction. Each time, the task becomes more difficult, as more material comes to light that was underappreciated when published and more enters the English language through translation a kind of time travel occurs whereby suddenly the full outlines of an impulse or a prior period become clearer.
Our contribution to the conversation includes the great flowering of feminist speculative fiction in the late 1960s through the 1970s, which created the foundation for the wonderful wealth and diversity of such fiction in the present day. The entry into the field of so many amazing writers at once transformed science fiction and fantasy forever. The ways in which these women Sheldon, Russ, and many others entered into a conversation with the science fiction community also changed reader perceptions. They helped to usher in a creative space that allowed more women to consider writing science fiction. It is no surprise that this period of flowering coincided roughly with the flourishing of the New Wave literary movement because the New Wave created its own unique space by championing experimentation and literary values. Feminist speculative fiction and New Wave science fiction often shared similar interests and curiosities, and in the subset of their convergence represented something truly new and different.
The two decades thereafter represent a period in which competing impulses sought to push differing views of what science fiction could be: a kind of retrenchment and conservativism measured against an attempt to build on the triumphs of the 1970s. The rise of a predominantly U.S.-based humanism was perhaps too moderate to be considered particularly progressive or conservative, while the infusion of cyberpunk allowed some women writers additional freedom but otherwise, at least initially, could not be considered a space for creation of feminist fiction. These are all interesting contradictions that exist in a time period prior to both the rise of third-wave feminism in the SF communit