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Book SynopsisContains an array of science fiction stories which include pregnant spaceman; a witch; a knight-errant princess; the nuns of St Mary Magdalene; a time traveller; love and lyrebirds; dreams and poetry; philosophy; the creation of the universe; two very different angels; and were-marsupials.
Trade Review'Fantasy has always been a rebel’s mode, a means of sneakily saying unwelcome or disturbing things about one’s society, or of offering a more or less plausible alternative to it. The stories and poems in this book are all, in one way or another, fantastic, all are rebellious, subversive, critical, or teasing, cheerfully or fiercely knocking the posts from under the Status Quo… Mothers and daughters, women friends, women lovers, women and children, women and animals – the book is full of pairings, interweavings, minglings, transformations, transgressions of boundaries between generations, between species, between realms. Borders which we’re used to seeing well sprayed and marked with neat piles of scat become crossings, trysting places, meeting grounds… ' — Ursula K. Le Guin
Table of Contentsacknowledgements saint martha according to deborah klein: cover art / Deborah Klein foreward / Ursula Le Guin introduction / Lucy Sussex and Judith Raphael Buckrich two poems: ‘alinta’ and ‘maydina’ from women of the sun / Hyllus Maris the master builder’s wife / Lisa Jacobson the goddess wakes / Jane Routley widow wilberforce and the lyrebird / Nadia Wheatley the pumpkineater / Isobelle Carmody aubade from tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow / M. Barnard Eldershaw one last picture of ruby-rose (a letter to kevin arnett) / Carmel Bird angel thing / Petrina Smith from the sea people / Maurilia Meehan entropy / Leanne Frahm science fiction / Sarah Carmela Helen Endacott flight / Ania Walwicz possum lover / Yvonne Rousseau the blinding of bellevue hearn / Alison Goodman from SAW / berni m. janssen angel jacko / Gabrielle Lord a sky full of ravens / Sue Isle from a few hours in a far-off age / Henrietta Dugdale a tour guide in utopia / Lucy Sussex the know-all / Rosaleen Love not with love / Philippa C. Madden the padwan affair / Tess Williams our mother land / Daisy Utemorrah biographies
