Кэрол Эмшвиллер - The Future Is Female! - 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin

472.7 A word apparently invented by Le Guin; another character later gives “insane” and “psycho” as synonyms (see page 480, lines 11–12, in the present volume).

478.1 The dance of death or danse macabre , an allegorical theme that emerged in late medieval European art and literature, typically featuring a personified Death leading the living to the grave. Composers including Franz Liszt, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Arnold Schoenberg subsequently set the theme to music.

See Pamela Sargent, “Women in Science Fiction,” in Women of Wonder (New York: Vintage, 1975), and Eric Leif Davin, Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926–1965 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006).

Paul Walker, “Leigh Brackett: Interview,” Speaking of Science Fiction (Oradell, NJ: Luna Publications, 1978), 371–83.

In a 1974 speech to the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, published as “Day of the Pulps,” Fantasy Commentator 9.50 (Fall 1997): 100–101.

Jeffrey M. Elliot, “C. L. Moore: Poet of Far-Distant Futures,” Pulp Voices; or, Science Fiction Voices #6: Interviews with Pulp Writers and Editors (San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1983), 45–51.

Zenna Henderson, “The People Series,” in Joseph Olander, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Frederik Pohl, eds., The Great Science Fiction Series (New York: Harper & Row, 1980), 173–74.

Elliot, “C. L. Moore: Poet of Far-Distant Futures.”

Clare Winger Harris, “Possible Science Fiction Plots,” Wonder Stories 3.3 (August 1931): 426–27.

Walker, “Leigh Brackett: Interview.”

Margaret St. Clair, “Wight in Space: An Autobiographical Sketch,” in Martin H. Greenberg, ed., Fantastic Lives: Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981), 144–56.

Judith Merril, “What Do You Mean: Science? Fiction?” Extrapolation 7, 8 (May 1966, December 1966): 30–46; 2–19.

“Joanna Russ,” in Charles Platt, Dream Makers II: The Uncommon Men & Women Who Write Science Fiction (New York: Berkley, 1983), 191–202.

Paul Walker, “Andre Norton: Interview,” Speaking of Science Fiction (Oradell, NJ: Luna Publications, 1978), 264–70.

Leigh Brackett, “The Science-Fiction Field,” Writer’s Digest , July 1944, 20–27.