The Future Is Female!: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin

SOURCES & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This volume contains twenty-five stories first published in the period 1928 to 1969. The texts of all stories have been taken from their original magazine printings, with the exception of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Nine Lives,” the text of which is taken from the first book edition.

Great efforts have been made to locate all owners of copyrighted material. Any owner who has inadvertently been omitted will gladly be acknowledged in future printings.

Clare Winger Harris, “The Miracle of the Lily,” Amazing Stories 3.1 (April 1928): 48–54.

Leslie F. Stone, “The Conquest of Gola,” Wonder Stories 2.11 (April 1931): 1278–87.

C. L. Moore, “The Black God’s Kiss,” Weird Tales 24.4 (October 1934): 402–21. Copyright © 1934 by Weird Tales. Reprinted by permission of Don Congdon Associates, Inc.

Leslie Perri, “Space Episode,” Future Combined with Science Fiction 2.2 (December 1941): 106–12.

Judith Merril, “That Only a Mother,” Astounding Science Fiction 41.4 (June 1948): 88–95. Later collected in Homecalling and Other Stories (NESFA Press, 2005). Copyright © 1948, 1976 by Judith Merril. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Judith Merril and the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

Wilmar H. Shiras, “In Hiding,” Astounding Science Fiction 42.3 (November 1948): 40–70. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Wilmar H. Shiras.

Katherine MacLean, “Contagion,” Galaxy 1.1 (October 1950): 114–40. Later collected in The Trouble With You Earth People (Donning, 1979). Copyright © 1950, 1978 by Katherine MacLean. Reprinted by permission of the author and the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

Margaret St. Clair, “The Inhabited Men,” Planet Stories 5.2 (September 1951): 44–49. Copyright © 1951, 1978 by Margaret St. Clair. Reprinted by permission of McIntosh and Otis, Inc.

Zenna Henderson, “Ararat,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 3.6 (October 1952): 103–22. Later collected in Ingathering: The Complete People Stories (NESFA Press, 1995). Copyright © 1952, 1980 by Zenna Henderson. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Zenna Henderson and the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

Andrew North, “All Cats Are Gray,” Fantastic Universe 1.2 (August–September 1953): 129–34. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Andre Norton.

Alice Eleanor Jones, “Created He Them,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 8.6 (June 1955): 29–36. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Alice Eleanor Jones.

Mildred Clingerman, “Mr. Sakrison’s Halt,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 10.1 (January 1956): 122–27. Later collected in The Clingerman Files (Size 5½ B Publishing, 2017). Reprinted by permission of A Cupful of Space LLC.

Leigh Brackett, “All the Colors of the Rainbow,” Venture Science Fiction 1.6 (November 1957): 108–28. Reprinted by permission of Spectrum Literary Agency on behalf of the Huntington National Bank.

Carol Emshwiller, “Pelt,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 15.5 (November 1958): 102–10. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Rosel George Brown, “Car Pool,” If 8.6 (July 1959): 80–94.

Elizabeth Mann Borgese, “For Sale, Reasonable,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 17.1 (July 1959): 70–72.

Doris Pitkin Buck, “Birth of a Gardener,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 20.6 (June 1961): 50–59.

Alice Glaser, “The Tunnel Ahead,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 21.5 (November 1961): 54–61.

Kit Reed, “The New You,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 23.3 (September 1962): 100–109. Reprinted by permission of the author.

John Jay Wells & Marion Zimmer Bradley, “Another Rib,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 24.6 (June 1963): 111–26. Reprinted by permission.

Sonya Dorman, “When I Was Miss Dow,” Galaxy 24.5 (June 1966): 153–63. Copyright © 1966, 1994 by Sonya Dorman. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Sonya Dorman and the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

Kate Wilhelm, “Baby, You Were Great,” Orbit 2, ed. Damon Knight (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967), 19–36. Reprinted by permission of InfinityBox Press LLC.

Joanna Russ, “The Barbarian,” Orbit 3, ed. Damon Knight (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968), 84–108. Copyright © 1968 by Joanna Russ. Reprinted by permission of the Diana Finch Literary Agency on behalf of the Estate of Joanna Russ.

James Tiptree, Jr., “The Last Flight of Dr. Ain,” Galaxy 28.2 (March 1969): 121–27. Later collected in Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (Arkham House, 1990). Copyright © 1969 by James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon), renewed 1997 by Jeffrey D. Smith. Reprinted by permission of Jeffrey D. Smith and the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

Ursula K. Le Guin, “Nine Lives,” The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 129–60. First published in Playboy in November 1969 under the byline U. K. Le Guin (imposed to conceal her gender) and in a version edited without her involvement. Later collected in The Unreal and the Real (Small Beer Press, 2012). Copyright © 1969 by Ursula K. Le Guin. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.