Memories and visions

For decades science fiction was a notoriously male preserve, ranged by a very few intrepid women writers. In the 1970s women authors took center stage, creating vital, colorful female characters, envisioning societies where gender was not an issue, even worlds where men did not exist. Then in the 1980s, women in a community gave way to the strong woman hero who went adventuring alone, unsupported by female friends, lovers, kinfolk, mentors, protegees, or peers. The fifteen stories in Memories and Visions feature women who travel and fight and celebrate together, women who reacch out to each other across times and cultures, women who find allies in the most unexpected places. Stories by Adrienne Lauby, Barbara krasnoff, Caro Clarke, Charlotte Watson Sherman, Hattie Gossette, Judith Katz, Kiel Stuart, L. Timmel Duchamp, Laurell K. Hamilton, Lorraine Schein, Mary Ellen Mathews, Nona M. Caspers, R.M. Meluch, Rosario Champagne, and Shirley Hartwell