But for my money, the sci-fi event of the season is the second volume of the Library of America s absorbing The Future is Female series. This installment focuses on short stories by women of the 1970s, the heyday of Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree Jr., the pseudonym of Chicagoan Alice Bradley Sheldon. Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune
"Yaszek has come up with a great mix . . . the real treat is in discovering some terrific but less well-known works by authors now largely forgotten." Alex Good, The Toronto Star
Lisa Yaszek, editor, is Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech and past president of the Science Fiction Research Association. She is the author of Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women s Science Fiction (2008), and coeditor of Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (2016); she currently serves as a juror for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year and the Eugie Foster Memorial Award for the Best Speculative Story of the Year.