Lisa Yaszek

Exposed to a high-tech dust that can transport people from one dimension to another, three travelers must try to escape the totalitarian Philadelphia of 2118. When three people in Philadelphia inhale dust developed by a scientist who has discovered parallel universes, they are transported into an interdimensional no-man s land that is populated by supernatural beings. From there, they go on to an alternate-future version of Philadelphia a frightening dystopian nation-state in which citizens are numbered, not named. How will they escape? In The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories, introduced by Lisa Yaszek, you will find this world-bending story as well as five others written by Francis Stevens, the pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett, a pioneering science fiction and fantasy adventure writer from Minneapolis who made her literary debut at the precocious age of 17. Often celebrated as 'the woman who invented dark fantasy,' Bennett possessed incredible range; her groundbreaking stories produced largely between 1904 and 1919 suggest that she is better understood as the mother of modern genre fiction writ large. Bennett s work has anticipated everything from the work of Philip K. Dick to Superman comics to The Hunger Games, making it as relevant now as it ever was. Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett, 1884-1948) was the first American woman to publish widely in fantasy and science fiction. Her five short stories and seven longer works of fiction, all of which appeared in pulp magazines such as Argosy, All-Story Weekly, and Weird Tales, would influence everyone from H. P Lovecraft to C. L. Moore.

Go back to the Future Is Female in this all new collection of wildly entertaining stories by the trailblazing feminist writers who transformed American science fiction in the 1970s Imagine it, if you can bear to look back: long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the writing of science fiction (so the story goes) was an affair dominated by men, or what Ursula K. Le Guin once described as a "baboon patriarchy"--its female characters figments of adolescent fantasy, awaiting rescue in bronze brassieres, to be mansplained to about rocketry and ray guns. Now cut to the 1970s--the coming-of-age decade from which the 20 stories gathered here emerged--when it all changed. Following on The Future Is Female , which traced the prehistory for women's science fiction from the 1920s to the 1960s, The Future Is Female Vol. 2 presents the astonishingly brave and compelling stories of the women who remade the genre in the 1970s, including: - Octavia E. Butler, "Childfinder" (1970) - Sonya Dorman, "Bitching It" (1971) - Kate Wilhelm, "The Funeral" (1972) - Joanna Russ, "When It Changed" (1972) NEBULA AWARD - Miriam Allen deFord, "A Way Out"(1973) - Vonda N. McIntyre, "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" (1973) NEBULA - James Tiptree, Jr., "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (1973) HUGO AWARD - Kathleen Sky, "Lament of the Keeku Bird" (1973) - Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974) NEBULA & LOCUS AWARD - Phyllis Eisenstein, "Attachment" (1974) - Eleanor Arnason, "The Warlords of Saturn's Moons" (1974) - Kathleen M. Sidney, "The Anthropologist" (1975) - Marta Randall, "A Scarab in the City of Time" (1975) - Elinor Busby, "A Time to Kill" (1977) - Raccoona Sheldon, "The Screwfly Solution" (1977) NEBULA AWARD - Pamela Sargent, "If Ever I Should Leave You" (1974) - Joan D. Vinge, "View from a Height" (1978) - M. Lucie Chin, "The Best Is Yet to Be" (1978) - Lisa Tuttle, "Wives" (1979) - Connie Willis, "Daisy, In the Sun" (1979)

First Published in 2002. Advanced technologies challenge conventional understandings of the human subject by transforming the body into a conduit between external forces and the internal psyche. This title discusses the intense controversy about how to best understand and represent human subjectivity in a technology-intensive era. Yaszek provides an overview by linking specific modes of identity and agency to engagement with specific manifestations of technology itself.

First Published in 2002. Advanced technologies challenge conventional understandings of the human subject by transforming the body into a conduit between external forces and the internal psyche. This title discusses the intense controversy about how to best understand and represent human subjectivity in a technology-intensive era. Yaszek provides an overview by linking specific modes of identity and agency to engagement with specific manifestations of technology itself.