Daughters of Earth (anthology)

Cover of paperback edition

Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century is a 2006 anthology edited by Justine Larbalestier. It pairs previously published stories with critical essays about those stories.

• Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award.
• Winner, William Atheling Jr Award
• Shortlisted for a British Science Fiction Award

Publications

• Wesleyan University Press, 424 pp. ISBN 0-8195-6676-4 (paper); ISBN 0-8195-6675-6 (cloth)

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Story: "The Fate of the Poesidonia" – Clare Winger Harris (1927)
• Essay: Illicit Reproduction: Clare Winger Harris's "The Fate of the Poiseidonia" - Jane Donawerth
• Story: "The Conquest of Gola" – Leslie F. Stone (1931)
• Essay: The Conquest of Gernsback: Leslie F. Stone and the Subversion of Science Fiction Tropes – Brian Attebery
• Story: "Created He Them" by Alice Eleanor Jones (1955)
• Essay: From Ladies' Home Journal to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 1950s SF, The Offbeat Romance Story, and the Case of Alice Eleanor Jones – Lisa Yaszek
• Story: "No Light in the Window" – Kate Wilhelm (1963)
• Essay: Cold War Masculinity In The Early Work Of Kate Wilhelm – Josh Lukin
• Story: "The Heat Death of the Universe" – Pamela Zoline (1967)
• Essay: A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline’s "The Heat Death of the Universe" – Mary Papke
• Story: "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill Side" – James Tiptree, Jr. (1972)
• Essay: (Re)Reading James Tiptree Jr.'s "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill Side" – Wendy Pearson
• Story: "Wives" – Lisa Tuttle (1976)
• Essay: The Universal Wife: Exploring 1970s Feminism with Lisa Tuttle's "Wives" — Cathy Hawkins
• Story: "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" – Octavia Butler (1987)
• Essay – Andrea Hairston
• Story: "Rachel in Love" – [[Pat Murphy (1987) Essay: Simians, Cyborgs and Women in "Rachel in Love" – Joan Haran
• Story: "Balinese Dancer" – Gwyneth Jones (1997)
• Essay: "Prefutural Tension": Gwyneth Jones's Gradual Apocalypse – Veronica Hollinger
• Story: "What I Didn't See" – Karen Joy Fowler 2002
• Essay: Something Rich and Strange: Karen Joy Fowler's "What I Didn't See" – L. Timmel Duchamp
• Bibliography

Reviews

• Larbalestier Daughters website
• SF Site review by Alma A. Hromic
• Wesleyan UP site, dist. by University Press of New England (UPNE)