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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn his study of Phyllis Gotlieb's work, Dominick Grace brings to light the richness and quality of a body of SF, written by a woman, a CANADIAN woman, at that, at a time when Canadian SF as a sub-genre was just developing. His analyses reveal the depth and complexity of Gotlieb's fiction which is extremely deceptive in its very readability. Gotlieb is a great storyteller who brings the reader directly into her fictional universe and the lives of her characters, Grace highlights the wealth that lies beneath the sometimes deceptive clarity of Gotlieb's prose. In particular, this exploration of the complex web of Gotlieb's intertexts is thorough and insightful, from Biblical tales to folklore to Renaissance English literature, he connects the dots to reveal the complete, but sometimes still puzzling picture painted in works like
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O Master Caliban! Above all, his formal analysis of the gamesmanship evident in Gotlieb's SF poetry is masterful. Overshadowed by Margaret Atwood's mainstream success and the ex-pat American Judith Merril's editorial influence, Gotlieb is one of the most significant Canadian woman writers of SF in English; this is a much-needed study of the complete works of a writer who deserves much more scholarly attention." - Amy Ransom, Vice-President of the Science Fiction Research Association
