Partners in Wonder : Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965

Enriching our knowledge of women and early science fiction, this work explores the distinctly different form of science fiction that females wrote. Offering comprehensive bibliography of these works, it provides biographies of 133 of these women authors.

Partners in Wonder revolutionizes our knowledge of women and early science fiction. Contrary to accepted interpretations, women fans and writers were a welcome and influential part of pulp science fiction from the birth of the genre. Davin finds that at least 203 female authors, under their own female names, published over a thousand stories in science fiction magazines between 1926 and 1965. This work explores the distinctly different form of science fiction that females produced—one that was both more utopian and more empathetic than that of their male counterparts. Partners in Wonder presents, for the first time, a complete bibliography of every story published by women writers in science fiction magazines from 1926 to 1965 and brief biographies on 133 of these women writers. It is thus the most comprehensive source of information on early women science fiction writers yet available and of great importance to scholars of women''s studies, popular culture, and English literature as well as science fiction.