5/19/2023 0 Comments Hotel transylvania yarbroI’ve had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.” “I had the feeling that a man would slip by less observed. “A male name seemed like good camouflage,” she told interviewer Charles Platt in 1983. Earlier that year, Tiptree had been revealed to readers (as well as editors and fellow authors) as Alice Sheldon, an experimental psychologist and former CIA intelligence officer who had adopted the pseudonym to shield her academic reputation. The collection featured an introduction by a friend, the award-winning SF author James Tiptree, Jr. Right: Front jacket for Yarbro’s first story collection, Cautionary Tales (1978), designed by Bob Silverman.Ĭhelsea Quinn Yarbro had been writing science fiction for nearly a decade when her first story collection, Cautionary Tales, appeared-one of three books she published in 1978, an extraordinary accomplishment for someone who had published her debut novel only two years earlier. Left: The title page of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s second story, “Frog Pond,” which appeared in the March 1971 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. The Future Is Female! More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women
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