Millennial Women

Millennial Women

Author	Edited by Virginia Kidd
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction, social science fiction, feminist science fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction
Publisher	Delacorte Press, Dell Publishing (first edition, hardcover)
Publication date	1978 (first edition, hardcover)
Media type	Print (hardcover and softcover)
Pages	305 pp (first edition, hardcover)
ISBN	0-440-05599-7 (first edition, hardcover)
OCLC	3710726
LC Class	PZ5 .M6
Followed by	Also published under the title The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories

Millennial Women is a 1978 book containing several science fiction stories. All the stories are written by women and have a female character as the main character. Virginia Kidd edited the book. Themes in the stories are: feelings about what is alien or other, uses of language, careers, Family relationships, sexual politics, how society creates gender, political freedom and equality.

Contents

• "Prayer for My Daughter" by Marilyn Hacker (prefatory poem)
• "Introduction" by Virginia Kidd
• "No One Said Forever" by Cynthia Felice (short story)
• "The Song of N'Sardi-El" by Diana L. Paxson (short story)
• "Jubilee's Story" by Elizabeth A. Lynn (short story)
• "Mab Gallen Recalled" by Cherry Wilder (short story)
• "Phoenix in the Ashes" by Joan D. Vinge (novelette)
• "The Eye of the Heron" by Ursula K. Le Guin (novella)
• Biographical Notes (not in all editions).

Awards and nominations

• 1979, Locus Award, Best SF Anthology category, 12th place.^[1]

Publication history

• 1978, Millennial Women, edited by Virginia Kidd, U.S., Delacorte Press (Dell Publishing), ISBN 0-440-05599-7, ISBN 978-0-440-05599-0, pp. 305, 1978, hardcover
• 1979, Millennial Women, edited by Virginia Kidd, U.S., Dell Publishing, ISBN 0-440-16301-3, ISBN 978-0-440-16301-5, April 1979, softcover
• 1980, The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories, edited by Virginia Kidd, UK, Panther Books (Granada Publishing), ISBN 0-586-05089-2, pp. 251, 5 June 1980, softcover

Footnotes

1. Kelly, Mark R. (2000–2007). "1979 Locus Awards". The Locus Index to SF Awards. Locus Publications. Archived from the original on 2010-08-06. Retrieved 2007-03-18.

Other websites

• Millennial Women title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database