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The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women

Fantasy long has been a vehicle that women have used to express their creative diversity and free themselves from a male-dominated literary establishment. This collection contains 38 short stories written by women from 1941 to the present. Acclaimed fantasists, such as Anne McCaffrey, Ursula Le Guin, and Lisa Tuttle, are joined by new voices from four continents as well as writers better known for other fictions, such as Joyce Carol Oates, Fay Weldon, and P.D. James. They explore every aspect of the weird and the macabre, of emotion and eroticism, allowing readers to discover the range and complexity of well-written fantasy.

Contents:

Sources and Acknowledgements • uncredited essay

Introduction • essay by Joanna Russ

Editors' Note • essay by Richard Glyn Jones and A. Susan Williams

The Demon Lover • (1941) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen

The Tooth • (1949) • short story by Shirley Jackson

The Lake of the Gone Forever • (1949) • novelette by Leigh Brackett

The Old Man • (1952) • short story by Daphne du Maurier

My Flannel Knickers • (1988) • short story by Leonora Carrington

The Anything Box • (1956) • short story by Zenna Henderson

Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse • (1958) • short story by Muriel Spark

A Bright Green Field • (1958) • short story by Anna Kavan

The Ship Who Sang (The Ship Who ... series) • (1961) • novelette by Anne McCaffrey

Marmalade Wine • (1958) • short story by Joan Aiken

The Fall of Frenchy Steiner • (1964) • novelette by Hilary Bailey

Cynosure • (1964) • short story by Kit Reed

The Wall • (1965) • short story by Josephine Saxton

The Foot • (1967) • short story by Christine Brooke-Rose

Baby, You Were Great • (1967) • short story by Kate Wilhelm (variant of Baby, You Were Great!)

The Second Inquisition (Alyx) • (1970) • novelette by Joanna Russ

Murder, 1986 • (1970) • novelette by P. D. James

The Milk of Paradise • (1972) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.

When It Happens • non-genre • (1975) • short story by Margaret Atwood

Angel, All Innocence • (1977) • short story by Fay Weldon

Night-Side • (1977) • novelette by Joyce Carol Oates

Fireflood • (1979) • novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre

Wives • (1979) • short story by Lisa Tuttle

Red as Blood • (1979) • short story by Tanith Lee

Sur • (1982) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin

Peter and the Wolf • (1982) • short story by Angela Carter

The Pits Beneath the World • (1983) • short story by Mary Gentle

Two Sheep • (1983) • short story by Janet Frame

Relics • (1985) • short story by Zoe Fairbairns

The Evening and the Morning and the Night • (1987) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler

(Learning About) Machine Sex • (1988) • short story by Candas Jane Dorsey

Prodigal Pudding • (1988) • short fiction by Suniti Namjoshi

Boobs • (1989) • short story by Suzy McKee Charnas

If the Word Was to the Wise • (1990) • short story by Carol Emshwiller

Trial by Teaspoon • (1992) • short story by Lynda Rajan

In the Green Shade of a Bee-Loud Glade • (1993) • short story by L. A. Hall

Death in the Egg • (1994) • short story by Ann Oakley

Kay and Phil • (1994) • novelette by Lucy Sussex (variant of Kay & Phil)

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 560
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-024336-9
  • EAN
  • 9780140243369
  • Genres
  • fantasy, anthologies, fiction
  • Release date
  • 1996