Little Sisters and Other Stories - Vonda N. McIntyre

Little Sisters and Other Stories by Vonda N. McIntyre / ISBN 9781915983077 / 220-page paperback published in the Gold SF series from Goldsmiths Press (London)

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This volume presents a selection of short fiction by Vonda Neel McIntyre (1948–2019), one of the most acclaimed writers of post-war US American science fiction, and the winner of multiple awards for both novels and short fiction.

These stories, which span the whole of McIntyre’s career, show the broad range of her interests and her voice, taking us from bleak dystopian worlds on the verge of environmental collapse to baroque intergalactic civilizations populated by genetically modified humans, from cries for freedom to sharp-eyed satire to meditations on aging. Throughout run her distinctive themes of gender and power dynamics, human and species diversity, and a pragmatic utopianism that emphasises our mutual dependency.

The stories included in the volume are: "Breaking Point," "Thanatos," "Shadows, Moving," "Elfleda," "A Story for Eilonwy," "Malheur Maar," "The Adventure of the Field Theorems," "Little Faces", "Little Sisters," and "XYY" (previously unpublished).

"A peer of Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ, and Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda McIntyre's powerful contributions to feminist speculative fiction have long gone underappreciated. The stories in this volume showcase her incisive, unsettling, and often ambivalent depictions of biotechnology, power, genetics, love, and violence." —Alexis Lothian, author of Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility