Women of Wonder

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Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories by Women about Women is an influential 1974 anthology edited by Pamela Sargent.

"Science fiction stories by women about women"

It was the first of three books in the Women of Wonder series, which were later repacked and edited into two revised volumes.

Retrospective James Tiptree, Jr. Award shortlist.

Editions

• 1974: Vintage Books (Random House), New York, 1974
• 1975: Vintage Books (US, trade)
• 1975: Femmes et Merveilles, Editions Deno'l (France, paper)
• 1977: Mujeres y Maravillas, Editorial Bruguera (Spain, paper)
• 1978: Penguin, England (paper)
• 1979: Donne del Futuro, Savelli (Italy, paper)
• 1980: Vrouwen in Wonderland, Uitgeverij de Arbeiderspers (Denmark)

Contents

• "Introduction: Women and Science Fiction" by Pamela Sargent,
• "The Child Reams" by Sonya Dorman,
• "That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril,
• "Contagion" by Katharine MacLean,
• "The Wind People" by Marion Zimmer Bradley,
• "The Ship Who Sang" by Anne McCaffrey,
• "When I Was Miss Dow" by Sonya Dorman,
• "The Food Farm" by Kit Reed,
• "Baby, You Were Great" by Kate Wilhelm,
• "Sex and/or Mr. Morrison" by Carol Emshwiller,
• "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" by Ursula K. Le Guin,
• "False Dawn" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,
• "Nobody's Home" by Joanna Russ, and
• "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McIntyre.