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    Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory ed. Marleen S. Barr (Ohio State University Press, May 2008, 978-0-8142-1078-9, $44.95, xxiv+257pp, hc, oa, cover by Chris Ofili)
        Non-fiction, a critical anthology of five stories and 18 essays (four responses to other essays) on trends in black women’s SF. Story authors include Octavia E. Butler, Sheree R. Thomas, and Nalo Hopkinson; essay authors include Nisi Shawl, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Steven Barnes, and Tananarive Due; there is a “Conversation” with Samuel R. Delany by Carl Freedman. The third volume in the Future Females anthology series.



    Future Females: A Critical Anthology ed. Marleen S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981, 978-0-87972-174-9, $16.95, 191pp, hc, oa)
        Details taken from online listing.
    • 1 · Preface · Marleen S. Barr · pr
    • 9 · Science Fiction Women Before Liberation · Eric S. Rabkin · ar
    • 26 · Alexei Panshin’s Almost Non-Sexist Rite of Passage · Anne Hudson Jones · ar [Ref. Alexei Panshin]
    • 37 · “She Pluck’d, She Eat” · James D. Merritt · ar
    • 42 · Woman as Nature in Science Fiction · Scott Sanders · ar
    • 63 · Coming Home: Four Feminist Utopias and Patriarchal Experience · Carol Pearson · ar Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies Fall 1977, as “Women’s Fantasies and Feminist Utopias”; revised.
    • 71 · Recent Feminist Utopias · Joanna Russ · ar
    • 86 · A Footnote to Russ’s “Recent Feminist Utopias” · Robert Scholes · ar
    • 88 · An Ambiguous Legacy: The Role and Position of Women in the English Eutopia · Lyman Tower Sargent · ar Extrapolation December 1977
    • 103 · A Woman Appeared · Suzy McKee Charnas · ar
    • 109 · In and Out of Time: The Form of Marge Piercy’s Novels · Susan Kress · ar [Ref. Marge Piercy]
    • 125 · You, U.K. Le Guin · Norman N. Holland · ar [Ref. Ursula K. Le Guin]
    • 138 · Charles Bronson, Samurai, and Other Feminine Images: A Transactive Response to The Left Hand of Darkness · Marleen S. Barr · ar [Ref. Ursula K. Le Guin]
    • 157 · A Female Captain’s Enterprise: The Implications of Star Trek’s “Turnabout Intruder” · Edward Whetmore · ar (r)
    • 162 · A Personal Response to Whetmore’s “A Female Captain’s Enterprise” · Arthur Asa Berger · ar
    • 164 · Where’s All the Fiction in Science Fiction? · Jeffrey Berman · ar
    • 179 · The Future Females: A Selected Checklist Through 1979 · Roger C. Schlobin · bi


    Future Females, the Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism ed. Marleen S. Barr (Rowman & Littlefield, March 2000, 978-0-8476-9126-5, $22.95, xi+323pp, tp, oa)
        Non-fiction, critical collection of essays looking at the latest trends in feminist SF. A 20-years-after follow-up to Future Females: A Critical Anthology. Contributors include Jane Donawerth, Sheila Finch, Joan Gordon, and Jeanne Cortiel. Foreword by James Gunn & Karen Hellekson. Includes index.
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    Piggs by Neal Barrett, Jr. (Subterranean Press, January 2002, 978-1-931081-23-8, $40.00, 200pp, hc, n., cover by Don Ivan Punchatz)
        Signed and numbered edition of 850 numbered copies; a lettered edition of 26 copies was also announced.
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