The Penguin book of modern fantasy by women

The outer archives are busy

by A. Susan Williams, Richard Glyn Jones

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Thirty-eight fantasy stories by women, written from 1941 to the present. They range from Muriel Sparks' Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse, which is on flying saucers, to Lisa Tuttle's Wives, which is on the ideal of femininity as envisaged by the inhabitants of a distant planet.

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