Rosel George Brown’s “Car Pool” first appeared in If in 1959. I read the story as a reprint in Earthblood & Other Stories, edited by Eric Flint. The story is set in the future, with aliens. A woman carpools (air…
Tin Soldier by Joan Vinge
Somehow I have missed out on reading Joan Vinge’s short work. Tonight, I read “Tin Soldier,” reprinted in More Women of Wonder, edited by Pamela Sargent. The story wowed me. Pam’s introduction mentions that the story is based on the…
Angela Carter
This isn’t so much a post on Angela Carter as a note to self. In addition to the reading I’m doing for this project, I’m reading a nonfiction book called How To Be A Heroine: Or What I’ve Learned From…
A Frustrating Find
In the introduction to More Women of Wonder, published in 1976, Pamela Sargent writes: Several questions come to mind in the assembling of collections such as this one and its predecessor, Women of Wonder. The most obvious are: Why does…
Of Mist and Grass and Sand by Vonda N. McIntyre
I suspect the first time I tried to read this story, I abandoned it because of the setting and the set-up. I’m not fond of post-tech cultures, if indeed that’s what this is. It has the sense of a certain…
The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
I always feel at a disadvantage when I read a story I’d heard about forever. Especially a story that I’ve been told I’ll love, a story that someone felt I had to read right now. I’m such a contrary cuss…