Women Wrote the Future

Women Wrote the Future, Vol. 1: Tales from Galaxy includes 16 brilliant speculative stories written by women and originally published in the fabled Galaxy Magazine between February 1951 and September 1958. These fearless tales roam the far corners of the genre from the nuts and bolts of hard science fiction to the thoughtful embers of sociological speculation. Katherine MacLean’s marvelous “Games”—Mar. 1953—is as much about empathy and understanding as it is about the unknown future while “What is POSAT?”—Sep. 1951—by Phyllis Sterling Smith, is a cracking look at how we get from now to our shared future. All 16 tales are as fresh today as when they were first published. Each story has an all-new Introduction and the text is faithfully reproduced from their original appearances in Galaxy Magazine. The complete contents of Women Wrote the Future, Volume 1: Tales from Galaxy: “Games” – Katherine MacLean “The Pilot and the Bushman” – Sylvia Jacobs “One Way” – Miriam Allen deFord “Rough Translation” – Jean M. Janis “Pictures Don’t Lie” – Katherine MacLean “The Vilbar Party” – Evelyn E. Smith “What is POSAT?” – Phyllis Sterling Smith “Green Grew the Lasses” – Ruth Laura Wainwright “The Trap” – Betsy Curtis “Know Thy Neighbor” – Elisabeth R. Lewis “Tea Tray in the Sky” – Evelyn E. Smith “Homesick” – Lyn Venable “The Snowball Effect” – Katherine MacLean “Zeritsky’s Law” – Ann Griffith “From an Unseen Censor” – Rosel George Brown “The Eel” – Miriam Allen deFord