Millennial Women

0-440-05599-7 (first edition, hardcover)OCLC3710726LC ClassPZ5 .M6Followed byAlso published under the title The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories 

Millennial Women is a 1978 science fiction anthology, edited by Virginia Kidd, in which all the stories are written by women and have a female character as the primary protagonist. The themes which these stories have in common are those of social science fiction: that which is perceived as alien, the uses of language, careers, familial relationships, sexual politics, social constructions of gender, political freedom and equality.

Contents

• "Prayer for My Daughter" by Marilyn Hacker (prefatory poem)
• "Introduction" by Virginia Kidd
• "No One Said Forever" by Cynthia Felice (short story)
• "The Song of N'Sardi-El" by Diana L. Paxson (short story)
• "Jubilee's Story" by Elizabeth A. Lynn (short story)
• "Mab Gallen Recalled" by Cherry Wilder (short story)
• "Phoenix in the Ashes" by Joan D. Vinge (novelette)
• "The Eye of the Heron" by Ursula K. Le Guin (novella)
• Biographical Notes (not included in all editions).

Awards and nominations

• 1979, Locus Award, Best SF Anthology category, 12th place.^[1]

Release details

• 1978, Millennial Women, edited by Virginia Kidd, U.S., Delacorte Press (Dell Publishing), ISBN 0-440-05599-7, ISBN 978-0-440-05599-0, pp. 305, 1978, hardcover
• 1979, Millennial Women, edited by Virginia Kidd, U.S., Dell Publishing, ISBN 0-440-16301-3, ISBN 978-0-440-16301-5, April 1979, softcover
• 1980, The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories, edited by Virginia Kidd, UK, Panther Books (Granada Publishing), ISBN 0-586-05089-2, pp. 251, 5 June 1980, softcover

Footnotes

External links

• Millennial Women title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database