Future Is Female! Volume Two, The 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Stories By Women

Imagine it, if you can bear to look back: long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the writing of science fiction (so the story goes) was an affair dominated by men, or what Ursula K. Le Guin once described as a "baboon patriarchy"--its female characters figments of adolescent fantasy, awaiting rescue in bronze brassieres, to be mansplained to about rocketry and ray guns. Now cut to the 1970s--the coming-of-age decade from which the 20 stories gathered here emerged--when it all changed.

Following on The Future Is Female , which traced the prehistory for women's science fiction from the 1920s to the 1960s, The Future Is Female Vol. 2 presents the astonishingly brave and compelling stories of the women who remade the genre in the 1970s, including:

- Octavia E. Butler, "Childfinder" (1970)
- Sonya Dorman, "Bitching It" (1971)
- Kate Wilhelm, "The Funeral" (1972)
- Joanna Russ, "When It Changed" (1972) NEBULA AWARD
- Miriam Allen deFord, "A Way Out"(1973)
- Vonda N. McIntyre, "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" (1973) NEBULA
- James Tiptree, Jr., "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (1973) HUGO AWARD
- Kathleen Sky, "Lament of the Keeku Bird" (1973)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974) NEBULA & LOCUS AWARD
- Phyllis Eisenstein, "Attachment" (1974)
- Eleanor Arnason, "The Warlords of Saturn's Moons" (1974)
- Kathleen M. Sidney, "The Anthropologist" (1975)
- Marta Randall, "A Scarab in the City of Time" (1975)
- Elinor Busby, "A Time to Kill" (1977)
- Raccoona Sheldon, "The Screwfly Solution" (1977) NEBULA AWARD
- Pamela Sargent, "If Ever I Should Leave You" (1974)
- Joan D. Vinge, "View from a Height" (1978)
- M. Lucie Chin, "The Best Is Yet to Be" (1978)
- Lisa Tuttle, "Wives" (1979)
- Connie Willis, "Daisy, In the Sun" (1979)