''The New Women of Wonder: Recent Science Fiction Stories by Women About Women'' is an anthology of short stories, novelettes, novellas, and a poem edited by Pamela Sargent. The collection reprinted work by contemporary female science fiction authors, originally published from 1967 to 1977. It was published in 1978. ''The New Women of Wonder'' is the third anthology in a series of three volumes published in the 1970s, preceded by ''

Women of Wonder ''Women of Wonder: Science-fiction Stories by Women about Women'' is an anthology of twelve short stories and a poem edited by Pamela Sargent, published in 1975. The collection reprints work by female science fiction authors originally published f ...

'' (1975), and ''

More Women of Wonder ''More Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Novelettes by Women About Women'' is an anthology of five novelettes and two short stories edited by Pamela Sargent. It was published in 1976. The collection reprints work by female science fiction authors ...

'' (1976). These volumes are considered one of the first science fiction collections to focus on women in science fiction both as authors and as varied and complex characters. Sargent's introductions to the anthologies, in particular, are seen to have offered "comprehensive and informed analyses of the images and role of women in sf."

* "Introduction: The New Women of Wonder" - Pamela Sargent * "View from the Moon Station" (poem) (1977) - Sonya Dorman * "Screwtop" (1976) -

Vonda N. McIntyre Vonda Neel McIntyre () was an American science fiction writer and biologist. Early life and education Vonda N. McIntyre was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of H. Neel and Vonda B. Keith McIntyre, who were born in Poland, Ohio. She s ...

* "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" (1974) - Eleanor Arnason * "The Triumphant Head" (1970) - Josephine Saxton * "The Heat Death of the Universe" (1967) - Pamela Zoline * "Songs of War" (1974) -

Kit Reed Kit Reed, born Lillian Hyde Craig or Lil(l)ian Craig Reed (June 7, 1932 – September 24, 2017), was an American author of both speculative fiction and literary fiction, as well as psychological thrillers under the pseudonym Kit Craig. Biog ...

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The Women Men Don't See "The Women Men Don't See" is a science fiction novella#Versus novelette, novelette by American writer Alice Bradley Sheldon, published under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. Originally published in ''Fantasy and Science Fiction'' in 1973, it subse ...

" (1973) -

James Tiptree, Jr. Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. It was not publicly known ...

* "Debut" (1970) - Carol Emshwiller * "When It Changed" (1972) - Joanna Russ * "Dead in Irons" (1976) -

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born September 15, 1942) is an American writer. She is known for her series of historical horror novels about the vampire Count Saint-Germain. Biography Yarbro was born in Berkeley, California. She attended Berkeley schoo ...

* "Building Block" (1975) - Sonya Dorman * "Eyes of Amber" (1977) -

Joan D. Vinge Joan D. Vinge (; born April 2, 1948 as Joan Carol Dennison) is an American science fiction author. She is known for such works as her Hugo Award–winning novel ''The Snow Queen'' and its sequels, her series about the telepath named Cat, and ...

Reception

A contemporary reviewer noted that just Sargent's introduction to the collection was "well worth the price of the book," as it is "packed with information about women writers and women characters in the sci fi field."Bodart, Joni, and Lillian N. Gerhardt. ''School Library Journal'', vol. 21, no. 7, Mar. 1975, p. 112.

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The New Women of Wonder
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The New Women of Wonder ''The New Women of Wonder: Recent Science Fiction Stories by Women About Women'' is an anthology of short stories, novelettes, novellas, and a poem edited by Pamela Sargent. The collection reprinted work by contemporary female science fiction au ...

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