This story of a family outing in the not too distant overpopulated future purports to be science fiction; there are those, we believe, who would consider it a fair report on the present. The author writes about herself: "I was born on Long Island; graduated from Radcliffe College; spent several years in Paris in an expatriate F&SF colony where all of us dropped whatever we were doing as soon as a new issue appeared. Now back in New York, I'm an editorial associate at Esquire magazine. I’ve written articles, but this is my first try at fiction. I have a lot more planned — as soon as somebody figures out where time goes to when it hits Manhattan." Which last might be a good story in itself…

Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more: a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960s SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the biggest and best survey of the female tradition in American science fiction ever published, a thrilling collection of twenty-five classic tales. From Pulp Era pioneers to New Wave experimentalists, here are over two dozen brilliant writers ripe for discovery and rediscovery, including Leslie F. Stone, Judith Merril, Leigh Brackett, Kit Reed, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., and Ursula K. Le Guin....