Flying Cups & Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy
Edited by Debbie Notkin and the Secret Feminist Cabal.
Edgewood Press, 1998
Ever wonder what happened to the rest of the tea
party when the saucers went off into space? Here’s your chance
to find out! What would it be like to go to a club where you could
buy an injection of sexiness? To grow up in a world where you didn’t
know what gender you would be until puberty — and the discovery
could be painful? To find yourself and your secret pitted against
the entire United States government?
The James Tiptree, Jr. Award
has been recognizing science fiction and fantasy novels and stories
that explore and expand gender for the past six years. Although
the award itself is given to one or two works of fiction a year, each
jury also produces a “short list“ of notable works
that were considered for the award.
This first anthology contains
almost all of the short fiction that has either won or been short-listed
in the first five years of the award. Contributors include Ursula
K. LeGuin (“The Matter of
Seggri” and “Forgiveness Day”), Eleanor Arnason,
L. Timmel Duchamp, Carol Emshwiller, Kelley Eskridge, Graham
Joyce and Peter F. Hamilton, R. Garcia y Robertson, Delia Sherman,
and more.
“Selected for their provocative takes on sexuality,
these 13 gender-bending tales of outre amour shock, amuse and call
on basic human sympathy.... A fantasy-tinted look at human relationships
and identity. .. nimbly traces the charting of new territory.” — Publishers
Weekly
“This is an anthology of short stories that deal with the nature of “gender,” but
from so many viewpoints that the common thread of this theme anthology
is a welcome slender one. It’s also filled with excellent writing ...
so many good stories that it would be unfair to single out one or two. Buy
yourself a copy and choose your own best; there’s a lot of potential
choices here and the book provides plenty of bang for your buck.” — Science
Fiction Chronicle
$18.00, trade paperback, 594 pages |
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Introduction, Debbie Notkin
And Salome Danced, Kelley
Eskridge
The Lovers, Eleanor Arnason
Chemistry, James Patrick
Kelly
Forgiveness Day, Ursula K. Le Guin
Some Strange
Desire, Ian McDonald
Venus Rising, Carol Emshwiller
Eat Reecebread, Graham
Joyce and Peter F. Hamilton
Motherhood, Etc., L. Timmel Duchamp
The Other Magpie,
R. Garcia y Robertson
Food Man, Lisa Tuttle
Young Woman in a Garden, Delia
Sherman
Grownups, Ian R. MacLeod
The Matter of Seggri, Ursula
K. Le Guin |