Bibliography

Short Fiction—Individual Stories

"O's Story"

Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Susanna Sturgis, Crossing Press (Oct 1989)

"Transcendence"

Starshore, Vol.1, no.2, (Fall, 1990)

"The Forbidden Words of Margaret A."

(1) Pulphouse 8 (August 1990); (2) The Women Who Walk Through Fire, ed. Susanna J. Sturgis, Crossing Press (Oct 1990); and (3) Sisters of the Revolution, ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer Oakland: PM Publishing (2015)

A Case of Mistaken Identity

Short Story Paperback #7, Pulphouse (Jan 1991)

"Motherhood, Etc."

(1) Full Spectrum 4, ed. L. Aronica, A. Stout, and B. Mitchell, Bantam Books, March (1993); (2) Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy, ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal, Edgewood Press (1998); and (3) Aliens Among Us, ed. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, Ace Books, (2000)

"Things of the Flesh"

(1) Asimov's Science Fiction, (Jan 1994); (2) Alexandria Digital Literature

"When Joy Came to the World"

(1) Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, (Jan 1994); (2) Alexandria Digital Literature; (3) tr. Serbian, Znak Sagite #12 (Sept 2003)

"And I Must Baffle At the Hint"

(1) Asimov's Science Fiction (Jan 1995); (2) Alexandria Digital Literature; (3) Never At Home, Aqueduct Press (2011)

"The Greatest Love Story of the Twenty-first Century"

Tales of the Unanticipated #14, (Winter/Spring/Summer, 1995)

"De Secretis Mulierum"

(1) Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 1995); (2) Alexandria Digital Literature (3) as a book, De Secretis Mulierum, Conversation Pieces #23, Aqueduct Press (July 2008)

"Promises to Keep"

(Realms of Fantasy (Oct 1995)

"Bettina's Bet"

(1) Asimov's SF, Jan 1996); and (2) Cybersex, ed. Richard Glyn Jones, Raven Books/Robinson Publishing, London (1996)

"Welcome, Kid, to the Real World"

Tales of the Unanticipated #16 (Spring/Summer/Fall 1996)

"Ms. Peach Makes A Run for Coffee"

(1) Terra Incognita (Winter, 1996/1997); (2) tr Serbian Polaris #2, June, 2003; (3) Minnesota Review (1989)

"Aphrodite of the Sea"

Black October 1 (May 1996)

"Quinn's Deal"

(1) Asimov's SF (April 1997); (2) Alexandria Digital Literature

"The Apprenticeship of Isabetta di Pietro Cavazzi"

(1) Asimov's SF (Sept 1997; (2) L. Timmel Duchamp, Love's Body, Dancing in Time, Aqueduct Press (April 2004)

"The Abbess's Prayers"

(1) Dying for It, ed. Gardner Dozois, HarperPrism (Oct 1997); (2) Fantastic Metropolis )

"A Question of Grammar"

(1) Asimov's SF (April 1998); (2) Alexandria Digital Literature; (3) Never At Home Aqueduct Press (2011)

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Woman"

Leviathan 2 ed. Jeff VanderMeer and Rose Secrest, Ministry of Whimsy (April 1998)

"Dance at the Edge"

(1) Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel, eds., Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction, Overlook Press (Sept 1998); (2) L. Timmel Duchamp, Love's Body, Dancing in Time, Aqueduct Press (April 2004) (3) tr Swedish Nova Science Fiction No.13 (2007)

"Living Trust"

(1) Asimov's SF (Feb 1999); (2) tr German Wolfgang Jeschke, ed., Auf der Strasse nach Oodnadatta, Heyne (Jan 2002)

"How Josiah Taylor Lost His Soul"

(Asimov's SF (Feb 2000)

"The Daddy's Little Helper"

Terra Incognita (Summer 2000)

"Explanations Are Clear"

(1) Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel, eds., Bending the Landscape: Horror, Overlook Press (May 2001); (2) L. Timmel Duchamp, Never At Home Aqueduct Press (2011)

"The Mystery of Laura Molson"

Asimov's SF (July 2001)

"The Fool's Tale"

(1) Jeff VanderMeer & Forrest Aguirre, eds., Leviathan 3, Ministry of Whimsy (July 2002); (2) Lightspeed Magazine, ed. John Joseph Adams, June 2013

"Negative Event at Wardell Station, Planet Arriga"

Tales of the Unanticipated #24 (July, 2003--July 2004)

"Vestigial Elongation of the Caudal Vertebrae"

Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts, eds., The Thackery Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Nightshade Books (Nov 2003)

"Catamenia Hysterica"

Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts, eds., The Thackery Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Nightshade Books (Nov 2003)

"Di Forza Virus Syndrome"

Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts, eds., The Thackery Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Nightshade Books (Nov 2003)

"The Gift"

(1) L. Timmel Duchamp, Love's Body, Dancing in Time, Aqueduct Press (April, 2004); (2) Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith, eds., The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2, Tachyon Publications (Fall 2005)

"Lord Enoch's Revels"

L. Timmel Duchamp, Love's Body, Dancing in Time, Aqueduct Press (April 2004)

"The Heloise Archive"

L. Timmel Duchamp, Love's Body, Dancing in Time, Aqueduct Press (April 2004)

"Memory Work"

Asimov’s SF (Oct-Nov 2005)

"The World and Alice"

(1) Asimov’s SF (July 2006); (2) Never At Home Aqueduct Press (2011)

"The Tears of Niobe"

(1) ParaSpheres Ken Keegan and Rusty Morrison, eds. Omnidawn Publishing (August 2006); (2) Never At Home Aqueduct Press (2011)

"Obscure Relations"

The Future is Queer Lawrence Schimel and Richard Labonté, eds Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver CA (Oct 2006)

"The Man Who Plugged In"

(1) Austin Booth and Mary Flanagan, eds., reskin MIT Press (April 2007); (2) L. Timmel Duchamp and Maureen McHugh, Plugged In (May 2008)

"The Nones of Quintilis, Somewhere on the Southwest Slope of Monte Albano"

in L. Timmel Duchamp, Never At Home, Aqueduct Press (August 2011)

"Sadness Ineffable, Desire Ineluctable"

in L. Timmel Duchamp, Never At Home, Aqueduct Press (August 2011)

"Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett"

in L. Timmel Duchamp, ed., Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse, Aqueduct Press (July 2013)

Essays

"Saving Feminism: Reflections and Projections, Past/Present/Future"

Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies 8,3 (1986): 114-118

"Desperately Seeking Approval: The Importance of Distinguishing between Approval and Recognition"

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 3,2 (Summer 1988): 163-4

"Denaturalizing Authority and Learning to Live in the Flesh: Jonathan Lethem's Amnesia Moon"

The New York Review of Science Fiction, (Sept 1998)

"Playing with the Big Boys: (Alternate) History in Karen Joy Fowler's ‘Game Night at the Fox and Goose’"

The New York Review of Science Fiction (April 2000)

"What’s the Story? Reading Mary Gentle’s The Architecture of Desire"

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet no.8 (June 2001)

"What’s the Story? Reading Two Early Stories by Carol Emshwiller"

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet no.9 (Nov 2001)

That Only a Feminist: Reflections on Women, Feminism and Science Fiction, 1818-1960

(1) Foundation: the international review of science fiction, Vol. 31, No 84 (Spring 2002); (2) The Grand Conversation Aqueduct Press (2004)

"What’s the Story? Reading Joanne Dobson’s Cold and Pure and Very Dead Lady"

Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet no.11 (June 2002)

"‘Its awful and enticing radiance’: The Beauty and Terror of Carter Scholz's Radiance

The New York Review of Science Fiction (Sept 2002)

"What’s the Story? Viewing Carr, O’Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own"

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet no.12 (Nov 2002)

"The Private Passion of the Rebellious Reader"

Breaking Windows: A Fantastic Metropolis Sampler, ed Luis Rodrigues, Canton, Ohio: Prime Books (2003)

"The Cliché from Outerspace: Reflections on a Report of a Death Greatly Exaggerated"

Extrapolation 44,1 (Spring 2003)

"What’s the Story? Reading Deena Metzger’s The Woman Who Slept with Men to Take the War Out of Them"

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet no.12 (June 2003)

"What’s the Story? Reading Anna Kavan’s Ice"

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet no.14 (Nov 2003)

"Old Pictures: The Discursive Instability of Feminist SF"

(1) Extrapolation 45,1 (Spring 2004); (2) The Grand Conversation Aqueduct Press (2004)

The Grand Conversation: Essays

Seattle: Aqueduct Press (2004)

"Something Rich and Strange: Karen Joy Fowler’s `What I Didn’t See’"

Justine Larbalestier, ed. Daughters of Earth, Wesleyan University Press (2006)

"A Letter to Alice Sheldon"

in (1) L. Timmel Duchamp, ed. Talking Back: Epistolary Fantasies, Aqueduct Press (2006); (2) Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith, eds., The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3, Tachyon Publications (2006); and (3) Letters to Tiptree ed. Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein Australia: Twelfth Planet Press (2015)

"How to Do Things with Ideas"

in Margaret Grebowicz, ed. SciFi in the Mind’s Eye: Reading Science through Science Fiction Open Court (2007)

"Introduction"

for Inconsistencies by Nancy Jane Moore, PS Showcase #2 (May 2008)

"Creating ‘the Second Self": Performance, Gender, and Authorship"

in L. Timmel Duchamp and Eileen Gunn, eds., The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2, Aqueduct Press (2008)

"The Matter of Tongues: Being Her GoH Speech"

in Liz Henry, ed., The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.3, Aqueduct Press (2009)

"Lost in the Archives: A Shattered Romance"

in L. Timmel Duchamp, ed. Narrative Power: Encounters, Celebrations, Struggles Aqueduct Press (2010)

"Asking the Wrong Questions: Alice Sheldon, the Gender Learning Curve, and Me"

in The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol 3, No 2 (2013)

"‘Sun Woman’ or ‘Wild Seed’? How A Young Feminist Writer Found Alternatives to White Bourgeois Narrative Models in the Early Novels of Octavia Butler"

in Rebecca Holden and Nisi Shawl, eds., Strange Matings: Octavia Butler, Science Fiction, and Feminism Aqueduct Press (2013)

"Mad Scientists, Chimps, and Mice with Human Brains: Collapsing Boundaries in Science Fiction"

in Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger, eds., Parabolas of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press (2013)

"Real Mothers, A Faggot Uncle, and the Name of the Father: Samuel R. Delany’s Feminist Revisions of the Story of Science Fiction"

in (1) Kenneth R. James, ed. Cruising the Disciplines: A Symposium on Samuel R. Delany, Annals of Scholarship Vol. 20 (2013); and (2) Stories for Chip ed. Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell, Greenbelt, NC: Rosarium Publishing (2015)

"Feminist World Building: Toward a Future Memory"

The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol 4, No 1 (2014)

"Introduction"

in Rosaleen Love, Secret Lives of Books Australia: Twelfth Planet Press (2014)

"Making Visible the Context of Feminist SF: WisCon and Aqueduct Press

in Rebecca J. Holden, ed. The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 8: Re-Generating WisCon Seattle: Aqueduct Press (2014)

"Inclusive Reviewing"

[with Samuel R. Delany, Fabio Fernandes, Andrea Hairston, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Sofia Samatar, and Aishwarya Subramanian (1) Strange Horizons March 24, 2015; and (2) The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 9: Intersections and Alliances ed. Mary Anne Mohanraj Seattle: Aqueduct Press (2015)

"Dear Alice Sheldon"

in Letters to Tiptree ed. Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasonstein Australia: Twelfth Planet Press (2015)

"A Few Thoughts about Critics, Legitimacy, and Comfort"

The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol 5, No 2 (2015)

"The Tiptree Symposium"

The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol 6, No 1 (2016)

"Sometimes Anger is the Necessary Response: Reading Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick

The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol 6, No 4 (2016)

"The Second Annual James Tiptree Symposium: Celebrating Ursula K. Le Guin The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol 7, No 1 (2017)

"Utopia As Horizon" in Science Fiction Film & Television 9.1 (2017)

"Until the Next Time"

in The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol 7, No 3 (2017)

"A Letter to Octavia Butler"

in Luminescent Threads ed. Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal Australia: Twelfth Planet Press (2017)

Reviews

Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction ed. Lucie Armitt; Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women ed. Lynette Carpenter and Wendy K. Kolmar; Eugenia C. DeLamotte, The Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic

for SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 17,4 (Summer, 1992)

Science Fiction Culture by Camille Bacon-Smith

for Paradoxa no.18 (2003)

Zoe Landale, The Rain is Full of Ghosts

for The New York Review of Science Fiction (Sept 2003)

Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To…

for The New York Review of Science Fiction (Jan 2006)

Lisa Tuttle, The Mysteries

for The New York Review of Science Fiction (Sept 2006)

Charles Stross, The Glasshouse

for Strange Horizons (Oct 2006)

Tricia Sullivan Double Vision and Sound Mind

for Strange Horizons (May 2007)

Josh Cohen’s Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto

for The American Book Review (May/June 2007)

Kaaron Warren, The Grinding House

for The New York Review of Science Fiction (Aug 2007)

John Klima, ed., Logorrhea

for Strange Horizons (Aug 2007)

Samuel R. Delany, About Writng: 7 essays, 4 letters, & 5 interviews

for Strange Horizons (Dec 2007)

Sarah Monette, The Bone Key

for Strange Horizons (Apr 2008)

Ekaterina Sedia, ed. Paper Cities

for Strange Horizons (Oct 2008)

Leslie What, Crazy Love

for The American Book Review (Jan/Feb 2009)

M.M.Buckner’s Watermind

for Strange Horizons (Jan 2009)

Farah Mendlesohn, ed. On Joanna Russ

for Strange Horizons (Jul 2009); reprinted in The New York Review of Science Fiction (

Anil Menon’s The Beast with Nine Billion Feet

for Strange Horizons (Feb 2010)

Wendy Gaye Pearson, Veronica Hollinger, and Joan Gordon, eds., Queer Universes

for Science Fiction Film and Television (Spring 2010)

Holly Black’s The Poison Eaters

for Strange Horizons (May 2010)

The Library of America’s Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories, ed. by Joyce Carol Oates,

for Strange Horizons (July 2010)

Karen Joy Fowler’s What I Didn’t See

for The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol 1, No 1 (2011)

Julia Holmes’s Meeks,

for Strange Horizons (April 6, 2011)

The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Volume 1,

for Strange Horizons (May 30, 2011)

Carrie Vaughn’s After the Golden Age,

for Strange Horizons (December 19, 2011)

Ian McDonald’s Planesrunner,

for Strange Horizons (May 2012)

Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312,

for Strange Horizons (January 2013)

Karen Lord’s Best of All Possible Worlds,

for Strange Horizons (June 2013)

Alan DeNiro’s Tyrannia and Other Renditions,

for Strange Horizons (October 2014)