"Judith Merril - Daughters of Earth and Other Stories" - читать интересную книгу автора (Merril Judith)

CONTENTS
Author's Notes
Note #1
Note #2
Wish Upon a Star
Daughters of Earth
The Lonely
The Shrine of Temptation
Whoever You Are
Peeping Tom
In the Land of Unblind
Homecalling
The Future of Happiness
That Only a Mother
Dead Center

Copyright ┬й 1985 by Judith Merril
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McClelland and Stewart Limited The Canadian Publishers
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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Merril, Judith, 1923-
Daughters of earth and other stories
ISBN 0-7710-5837-3 I. Title.
PS8576.E77D38 1985 C813'.54 C85-099738-0 PR9199.2.M47D38 1985
Printed and bound in Canada

To
Beth Appeldoorn who kept pushing
and to
John Bell who kept pulling
with much thanks

AUTHOR'S NOTES
Note #1
The stories in this book are written in a specialized contemporary form тАФfuture fiction тАФ which is
usually (mis)called "science fiction." H.G. Wells, who invented the modern genre, coined the term
scientific romances for his Utopian Socialist visions of "A World Set Free" from ignorance, injustice,
and inequalities by sweet scientific reason and the plenty-for-all of technological progress. Hugo
Gernsback, founding publisher/editor of U.S. mass-market "scientifiction," devoted his pulp-paper
magazines to forecasting technologies (and technocracy) for the "conquest of nature" by "man."
 These dichotomies we have ever with us. Setting aside the confoundment of science with technology,
let me emphasize the distinction between prediction and prophecy. If I could forecast the future, I would
be making it in banking, betting, religion or politics. As a simple working prophet, I devise hypothetical
futures to try to gain some perspective on the dynamics (and possible directions) of the present тАФ much
as historians use contemporary hypotheses to seek understanding of how the present developed from the