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The Penguin book of modern fantasy by women / edited by A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones ; with an introduction by Joanna Russ.

London : Viking, 1995.

xiv, 560 pages ; 25 cm

Thirty-eight fantasy stories by women, written from 1941 to the present. They range from Muriel Sparks' Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse, which is on flying saucers, to Lisa Tuttle's Wives, which is on the ideal of femininity as envisaged by the inhabitants of a distant planet.

Fantasy fiction -- Women authors.

Fantasy fiction.

Short stories.

Fantasy fiction.

Short stories.

Williams, A. Susan.

Jones, Richard Glyn.

Includes bibliographical references.

The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- The tooth / Shirley Jackson -- The lake of the gone forever / Leigh Brackett -- The old man / Daphne du Maurier -- My flannel knickers / Leonora Carrington -- The anything box / Zenna Henderson -- Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse / Muriel Spark -- A bright green field / Anna Kavan -- The ship who sang / Anne McCaffrey -- Marmalade wine / Joan Aiken -- The fall of Frenchy Steiner / Hilary Bailey -- Cynosure / Kit Reed -- The wall / Josephine Saxton -- The foot / Christine Brooke-Rose -- Baby, you were great / Kate Wilhelm -- The second inquisition / Joanna Russ -- Murder, 1986 / P.D. James -- The milk of paradise / James Tiptree -- When it happens / Margaret Atwood -- Angel, all innocence / Fay Weldon -- Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates -- Fireflood / Vonda N. McIntyre -- Wives / Lisa Tuttle -- Red as blood / Tanith Lee -- Sur / Ursula K. LeGuin -- Peter and the wolf / Angela Carter -- The pits beneath the world / Mary Gentle -- Two sheep / Janet Frame -- Relics / Zoe Fairbairns -- The evening and the morning and the night / Octavia E. Butler -- (Learning about) machine sex / Candas Jane Dorsey -- Prodigal pudding / Suniti Namjoshi -- Boobs / Suzy McKee Charnas -- If the word was to the wise / Carol Emshwiller -- Trial by teaspoon / Lynda Rajan -- In the green shade of a bee-loud glade / L.A. Hall -- Death in the egg / Ann Oakley -- Kay and Phil / Lucy Sussex.

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