She's Fantastical

Available for the first time in North America, this unique anthology of women's speculative fiction, magic realism and fantasy blends stories and poems to fully explore the science fiction genre. As Ursula K. Le Guin writes in her foreword: 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. Contributors include Carmel Bird, Isobelle Carmody, Henriette Dugdale, M. Barnard Eldershaw, Sarah Endacott, Leanne Frahm, Alison Goodman, Sue Isle, Lisa Jacobson, Berni M. Janssen, Gabrielle Lord, Rosaleen Love, Philippa Maddern, Hyllus Maris, Maurilia Meehan, Yvonne Rousseau, Jane Routley, Petrina Smith, Lucy Sussex, Daisy Utemorrah, Ania Walwicz, Nadia Wheatley and Tess Williams.5 • Acknowledgements (She's Fantastical) • essay by uncredited • 6 • Saint Martha According to Deborah Klein: Cover Art • essay by Deborah Klein • 7 • Foreword (She's Fantastical) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin • 13 • Introduction (She's Fantastical) • essay by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex • 19 • Alinta - 'The Flame' (from "Women of the Sun") • (1983) • poem by Hyllus Maris • 20 • Maydina - 'The Shadow' (from "Women of the Sun") • (1983) • poem by Hyllus Maris • 21 • The Master Builder's Wife • (1993) • shortstory by Lisa Jacobson • 31 • The Goddess Wakes • shortstory by Jane Routley • 46 • Widow Wilberforce and the Lyrebird • shortstory by Nadia Wheatley • 60 • The Pumpkin-Eater • shortstory by Isobelle Carmody • 77 • Aubade, from "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" • shortfiction by Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw (variant of Aubade from "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" (excerpt) 1947) [as by M. Barnard Eldershaw ] • 92 • One Last Picture of Ruby-Rose (A Letter to Kevin Arnett) • shortstory by Carmel Bird • 98 • Angel Thing • novelette by Petrina Smith • 119 • from "The Sea People" • shortfiction by Maurilia Meehan • 122 • Entropy • shortstory by Leanne Frahm • 130 • Science Fiction • poem by Sarah Endacott [as by Sarah Carmela Helen Endacott ] • 132 • Flight • shortstory by Ania Walwicz • 138 • Possum Lover • novelette by Yvonne Rousseau • 167 • The Blinding of Bellevue Hearn • shortstory by Alison Goodman • 175 • from "SAW" • poem by Berni M. Janssen • 176 • Angel Jacko • (1987) • shortstory by Gabrielle Lord • 185 • A Sky Full of Ravens • shortstory by Sue Isle • 196 • from "A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age" • (1883) • shortfiction by Henrietta Dugdale • 202 • A Tour Guide in Utopia • shortstory by Lucy Sussex • 211 • The Know-All • shortstory by Rosaleen Love • 223 • Not With Love • shortstory by Philippa C. Maddern • 240 • The Padwan Affair • shortstory by Tess Williams • 251 • Our Mother Land • (1990) • poem by Daisy Utemorrah • 253 • Biographies (She's Fantastical) • essay by uncredited