KIT REED is an Adjunct Professor of English at Wesleyan University. Her twelve novels include Captain Grownup, Catholic Girls, Little Sisters of the Apocalypse, and her newest J.Eden. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and the first American recipient of a five-year literary grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation. In SF, she has published three short story collections and the novels Armed Camps, Magic Time, Fort Privilege, and Little Sisters of the Apocalypse, a finalist for the Tiptree Prize. "Whoever," the next -to-last short story she read in the New York Review of Science Fiction's series at Dixon Place this year, is forthcoming in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. "The Singing Marine" was a short story nominee at the 1996 World Fantasy Convention.
"Her flights of fancy are tipped with curare."--Brian W. Aldiss
"Illustrating the powers of fantastic literature to illuminate real
sociological dilemmas and personal psychological states, Reed's
collection is both a popular book for general readers and a useful
primary text for studying 20th-century writing by women.""--Paul Di
Filippo
"A significant and needed contribution by an important feminist
fiction writer who has the guts and wit of Joanna Russ and James
Tiptree, Jr.""--Marleen Barr
"Reed is an expert at using science fiction to cast a subversive
eye on women's roles. This fine showcase of some of her best
stories is a significant contribution.""--Pamela Sargent
"Her humorous, ironic prose could best be described as The Feminine
Mystique meets The Twilight Zone. Her surreal short stories provide
a unique commentary on the role of women in America from the 1950s
to the present."--Booklist
"Full of humor, pathos, understanding, and an insidious horror
which makes laughter as wild as a scream, and makes terror an
hilarious release."--Worlds Ahead
"She is the SF writer par excellence of the war between the
generations . . . Kit Reed frees us as we read her."--John Clute,
Science Fiction Weekly
"Her humorous, ironic prose could best be described as The Feminine
Mystique meets The Twilight Zone. Her surreal short stories provide
a unique commentary on the role of women in America from the 1950s
to the present."--Booklist
"Reed is that good, her writing is a treasure house of
gems."--Washington Post Book World
"Her flights of fancy are tipped with curare."--Brian W. Aldiss
"Illustrating the powers of fantastic literature to illuminate real
sociological dilemmas and personal psychological states, Reed's
collection is both a popular book for general readers and a useful
primary text for studying 20th-century writing by women.""--Paul Di
Filippo
"A significant and needed contribution by an important feminist
fiction writer who has the guts and wit of Joanna Russ and James
Tiptree, Jr.""--Marleen Barr
"Reed is an expert at using science fiction to cast a subversive
eye on women's roles. This fine showcase of some of her best
stories is a significant contribution.""--Pamela Sargent
"Her humorous, ironic prose could best be described as The Feminine
Mystique meets The Twilight Zone. Her surreal short stories provide
a unique commentary on the role of women in America from the 1950s
to the present."--Booklist
"Full of humor, pathos, understanding, and an insidious horror
which makes laughter as wild as a scream, and makes terror an
hilarious release."--Worlds Ahead
"She is the SF writer par excellence of the war between the
generations . . . Kit Reed frees us as we read her."--John Clute,
Science Fiction Weekly
"Her humorous, ironic prose could best be described as The Feminine
Mystique meets The Twilight Zone. Her surreal short stories provide
a unique commentary on the role of women in America from the 1950s
to the present."--Booklist
"Reed is that good, her writing is a treasure house of
gems."--Washington Post Book World
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