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The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women

edited by A. Susan Williams

Ages 18+ · 560 pages · 1995

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Thirty-eight fantasy stories by women, written from 1941 to the present. They range from Muriel Sparks' Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse, which is on flying saucers, to Lisa Tuttle's Wives, which is on the ideal of femininity as envisaged by the inhabitants of a distant planet.

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Ages 18+

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