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Series
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants, and railleries, Piercy discusses her own development as a working-class feminist, the highs and lows of TV culture, the ego-dances of a writer's life, the homeless and the housewife, Allen Ginsberg and Marilyn Monroe, feminist utopias (and why she doesn't live in one), why fiction isn't physics; and of course, fame, sex, and money, not necessarily in that order. The...
Author
Series
PM Press outspoken authors volume 8
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Contains "The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" in which a transhuman teenager must choose between immortality and sex; and includes a transcription of an address by the author to the 2010 World SF Convention as well as an interview with Cory Doctrow.
Author
Series
PM Press outspoken authors volume 24
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In these previously uncollected stories, Shawl explores the unexpected horizons (and corners) opened up by science fiction and fantasy's new diversity. In her worlds, sex can be both business and religion, complete with ancient rites, altars, and ointments ("Women of the Doll"); a virtual reality high school is a proving ground for girlpacks and their unfortunate adversaries ("Walk like a Man"); and a British rock singer finds an image in a mirror...
Author
Series
PM Press outspoken authors volume 12
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This collection of short stories--part of PM Press's Outspoken Author's series--features a historical science fiction narrative of England's first female paleontologist, but also includes other tales of family woes, invisibility, and an interview with the author.
Author
Series
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be features new fiction starring Joe R. Lansdales unlikely best friends Hap and Leonard, two good ol' boys from East Texas who have a way of getting into some bad fixes, along with some of Lansdales most famous and hard-to-find Texas Observer columns. In his nonfiction, Lansdale discusses, dissects, and discovers the trials of a Southern writer's life, his personal literary inspirations from Poe to porn, race and class...
11) Utopias of the third kind: plus, Lamentations in a lost tongue ; plus, Arctic sky : and much more
Author
Series
PM Press outspoken authors volume 28
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
12) The Beatrix gates: plus The woman who didn't come back, plus Trans central station, and much more
Author
Series
PM Press outspoken authors volume no. 22
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Author
Series
PM Press outspoken authors volume 25
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
""El Huge" reveals how small-town, small-time teens can accomplish Big Ugly Things on their own. "Big Girl" chronicles the media's fascination with the towering anxieties of a sixty-foot tall teen. "The Pill," the collection's previously unpublished centerpiece, celebrates a "miracle cure" for obesity that sends society to a grimly delightful new utopia. "With Such People in It," also new to readers, welcomes us to a brave new world where cowardice...
Author
Series
PM Press outspoken authors volume 19
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
John Crowley's all-new essay "Totalitopia" is a wry how-to guide for building utopias out of the leftovers of modern science fiction. "This Is Our Town," written especially for this volume, is a warm, witty, and wonderfully moving story about angels, cousins, and natural disasters based on a parochial school third-grade reader. One of Crowley's hard-to-find masterpieces, "Gone" is a Kafkaesque science fiction adventure about an alien invasion that...
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