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until the work of Alice Sheldon (AKA James Tiptree, Jr.) in the 1970s. The scientific
detective story is a subgenre of science fiction that flourished in the early 1900s with
the adventures of Arthur B. Reeve's Craig Kennedy character; and Margarette Rea is
one of the few women of the time to have, in "Delilah" (1933), written in the
subgenre (in this instance utilizing the newly emergent science of "psychology").
Hazel Heald's novelette "The Man of Stone" is searingly feminist, all the more so
since her heroine, like so many women of the time, takes her brutalized situation so
much for granted; the title can be seen as having both a literal meaning and a
metaphorical one in relation to the heart of the principle male character (Lovecraft
fans are in for a real treat.) On a more modern note, Evelyn Goldsmith offers what is
both a legitimate science fiction puzzle story and one of character in her "Days of
Darkness" (1959) the tale of a spinster's encounter with an invisible, vampiric alien
invader. Although "Alien Invasion" (1954) by Marcia Kamen is short, it is one many
women will sympathize with тАУ after all, what else is sex between a man and a
woman? In "Miss Millie's Rose" (1959), Joy Leche manages what so few male
science fiction writers of the era seemed able to do: portray a character whose
psychology arises out of her own future world and not our own. Betsy Curtis is a
deceptively mild name for someone able to produce a work like "The Goddess of
Planet Delight," a short novel in the classicAstounding mode that mixes a
sociological puzzle with pointed satire, high-adventure and romance in its story of a
traveling salesman who has to stop over one night at... "Cocktails at Eight" seems a
deceptively mild domestic comedy, until you realize what author Beth Elliot is saying
about the children her heroine has produced. Finally, the unknown Helen Clarkson
offers "The Last Day," a haunting poignant short-short so prophetic that, though
chosen prior to 9/11, hits home all the harder in the aftermath of that horrendous
tragedy. You will find an Eve of the future at the heart of each of these classic
science fiction stories about women by women.


Jean Marie Stine
1/9/2002


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PART I:
FROM THE 1920s тАУ '30s


THE CONQUEST OF GOLA
Leslie F. Stone
(Wonder Stories, April 1931)