Most Popular Books by Judith Merril

Judith Merril was a pioneer of twentieth-century science fiction, a prolific author, and editor. She was also a passionate social and political activist. In fact, her life was a constant adventure within the alternative and experimental worlds of science fiction, left politics, and Canadian literature. Better to Have Loved is illustrated with original art works, covers from classic science fiction magazines, period illustrations, and striking photography.

"They" worried about the impression she''d make. Who could imagine that she''d fall in love, passionately, the way others of her blood must have done? Who was this strange girl who had been born in this place—and still it wasn''t her home?...

The colony on the red planet had no need for heroes. It wanted people who knew how to solve the problem of simple survival. More than anything else it wanted independence form a doomed Earth—and it was in deadly danger of succeeding. A gripping tale of adventure, survival, and defiance set on a future Mars.

"A tense prophetic novel of one woman''s world--after the bomb"--Jacket.

"Although Judith Merril is best known for her short fiction and her novels (in collaboration with C. M. Kornbluth), she wrote a great deal of nonfiction. She wrote about SF fandom. She wrote about space and space exploration. And she wrote about science fiction. This volume collects Merril''s nonfiction from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Extrapolation, and her Year''s Best anthologies. In these collected pieces, Merril works through and develops her definition of S-F and what makes S-F good. She chronicles changes within the genre, including the emergence of the New Wave. And she provides a history of the genre: its writers, its publishers, and its magazines"--

¿Quién no se ha preguntado por la existencia de otros mundos y ha imaginado cómo descubrirlos? Escritos en la primera mitad del siglo XX, los cuentos de Judith Merril, Zenna Henderson, Joanna Russ, Doris Pitkin Buck, Wilmar H. Shiras, C. L. Moore y Mildred Clingerman muestran posibles vías para llegar a ellos. Ya sea a través de viajes que desafían el valor de sus protagonistas, la convergencia de dimensiones en la cotidianidad del hogar, las mutaciones genéticas o los pueblos escondidos, estas escritoras nos sugieren que hay universos distintos que se tocan, que multiplican el presente pero también las posibilidades del futuro. Mundos alternos es el primer tomo de ¡El futuro es mujer! , una antología editada por la académica Lisa Yaszek que reúne cuentos de veinticinco escritoras estadounidenses que encontraron en la ciencia ficción un espacio de libertad para jugar con la sorpresa y el asombro, pero también para experimentar, disentir y confrontar temas sociales y políticos de su presente. A lo largo de cuatro décadas, estas autoras no solo contribuyeron a edificar un género literario desde sus cimientos sino que lo transformaron al desarrollar personajes complejos, replantear la relación entre hombres y mujeres, humanos y alienígenas, y preguntarse cómo la ciencia y la tecnología podrían reconfigurar el género, el sexo, la maternidad y la supervivencia posibilitando nuevas formas de vivir. Dividida en tres tomos temáticos que reagrupan la antología de Yaszek, Almadía presenta esta colección por primera vez en lengua castellana gracias a la traducción del colectivo Falsos Amigos.

Women have long held a pivotal role in science fiction, shaping the genre with their innovative storytelling. Mary Shelly''s Frankenstein is widely accepted as the first science fiction novel ever written. From the very beginning many of science fiction, fantasy, and horror''s best, most influential writers have been female. Collected here in this captivating, five hundred page anthology are nineteen stories from visionary women of the golden age. Included are: Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett Robots of the World! Arise! by Mari Wolf I''ll Kill You Tomorrow by Helen Huber The Tree of Life by C. L. Moore The Monkey Spoons by Mary Elizabeth Counselman The Lost Gods by Dorothy Quick Each Man Kills by Victoria Glad Way Station by Mary Elizabeth Counselman Mop-Head by Leah Bodine Drake Exile from Space by Judith Merril Contagion by Katherine MacLEAN Piety by Margaret St. Clair Bride of the Dark One by Florence Verbell Brown Shatter the Wall by Sydney Van Scyoc The Ignoble Savages by Evelyn E. Smith Grove of the Unborn by Lyn Venable No Pets Allowed by M. A. Cummings The Putnam Tradition by Sonya Dorman Star Hunter by Andre Norton

Tam returns home to Earth after years of working in space. But tam is a Sharkie and on Earth Sharkies need not apply. Refused service in restaurants and other establishments and unable to find employment he takes the only desperate measure he can to survive.

Woman From Another Planet: With their plan for world domination at stake the Martian empire selects two lovers for their first attack on planet Earth.

The Lonely, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors'' original publications, the text is readable and clear.