Women of Wonder, The Classic Years

1995 edition cover

Women of Wonder, The Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s is a 1995 anthology edited by Pamela Sargent.

This is the first of two anthologies (Women of Wonder, The Classic Years and Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years) that were revisions and reissues of the original three volumes in the Women of Wonder series.

Editions

• 1995: Harcourt Brace & Company.

Contents

• "Introduction" by Pamela Sargent;
• "No Woman Born" by C. L. Moore;
• "That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril;
• "Contagion" by Katherine MacLean;
• "The Woman from Altair" by Leigh Brackett;
• "Short in the Chest" by Margaret St. Clair;
• "The Anything Box" by Zenna Henderson;
• "Death Between the Stars" by Marion Zimmer Bradley;
• "The Ship Who Sang" by Anne McCaffrey;
• "When I Was Miss Dow" by Sonya Dorman Hess;
• "The Food Farm" by Kit Reed;
• "The Heat Death of the Universe" by Pamela Zoline;
• "The Power of Time" by Josephine Saxton;
• "False Dawn" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro;
• "Nobody's Home" by Joanna Russ;
• "The Funeral" by Kate Wilhelm;
• "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda McIntyre;
• "The Women Men Don't See" by James Tiptree, Jr.;
• "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" by Eleanor Arnason;
• "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin;
• "The Family Monkey" by Lisa Tuttle;
• "View from a Height" by Joan D. Vinge.

• About the Authors;
• About the Editor;
• Recommended Reading: Science Fiction by Women, 1818-1978.