| Description |
viii, 306 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Talks and essays: The space crone -- Is gender necessary? Redux -- Moral and ethical implications of family planning -- It was a dark and stormy night -- Working on 'the lathe' -- Some thoughts on narrative -- World-making -- Hunger -- Places names -- The princess -- A non-Euclidean view of California as a cold place to be -- Facing it -- Reciprocity of prose and poetry -- A left-handed commencement address -- Along the Platte -- Whose lathe? -- The woman without answers -- The second report of the shipwrecked foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb -- Room 9, car 1430 -- Theodora -- Science fiction and the future -- The only good author? -- Bryn Mawr commencement address -- Woman / wilderness -- The carrier bag theory of fiction -- Heroes -- Prospects for women in writing -- Text, silence, performance -- 'Who is responsible?' -- Conflict -- 'Where do you get your ideas from?' -- Over the hills and a great way off -- The fisherwoman's daughter -- Reviews: The dark tower / C.S. Lewis -- Close encounters, star wars, and the tertium quid -- Shikasta / Doris Lessing -- Two from venom: Freddy's book and Vlemk / John Gardner ; The marriage between zones three, four and five / Doris Lessing-- Kalila and Dimna / retold by Ramsay Wood -- Unfinished business / Maggie Scarf -- Italian folktales / Italo Calvino -- Peake's progress / Mervyn Peake -- The sentimental agents / Doris Lessing -- Difficult loves / Italo Calvino-- 'Forsaking kingdoms': five poets -- The mythology of North America / John Bierhorst -- Silent partners / Eugene Linden -- Outside the gates / Molly Gloss -- Golden days / Carolyn See |
| Summary |
The celebrated author offers her thoughts on a broad range of subjects, including literary criticism, the state of science fiction writing today, and government and governmental policies |
| Notes |
Reprint. Originally published: 1989 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century.
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Feminism.
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Science fiction -- Authorship.
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Social ethics.
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Women and literature.
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| LC no. |
88011266 |
| ISBN |
080211105X |
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0802135293 (paperback) |
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