Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction

by Lisa Yaszek

In this groundbreaking cultural history, Lisa Yaszek recovers a lost tradition of women's science fiction that flourished after 1945. This new kind of science fiction was set in a place called galactic suburbia, a literary frontier that was home to nearly 300 women writers. These authors explored how women's lives, loves, and work were being transformed by new sciences and technologies, thus establishing women's place in the American future imaginary.Yaszek...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814251641
• ISBN13: 9780814251645
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"