Millennial Women

Millennial Women
The cover of the 1978 first edition
Author(s)	Edited by Virginia Kidd
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	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	ISBN 0440055997 (first edition, hardcover)
OCLC Number	3710726
LC Classification	PZ5 .M6
Followed by	Also published under the title The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories

Millennial Women is a 1978 science fiction anthology, edited by Virginia Kidd, in which all the stories are written by women and have a female character as the primary protagonist. The themes which these stories have in common are those of social science fiction: that which is perceived as alien, the uses of language, careers, familial relationships, sexual politics, social constructions of 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 included in all editions).

Awards and nominations

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

Release details

• 1978, Millennial Women, edited by Virginia Kidd, U.S., Delacorte Press (Dell Publishing), ISBN 0440055997, ISBN 978-0440055990, pp. 305, 1978, hardcover
• 1979, Millennial Women, edited by Virginia Kidd, Dell Publishing, ISBN 0440163013, ISBN 978-0440163015, April 1979, serial?
• 1980, The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories, edited by Virginia Kidd, UK, Panther Books (Granada Publishing), ISBN 0586050892, pp. 251, 5 June 1980, softcover

Footnotes

1. ^ Kelly, Mark R. (2000–2007). "1979 Locus Awards". The Locus Index to SF Awards. Locus Publications. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus1979.html#anth. Retrieved 2007-03-18. 

External links

• Millennial Women publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database