Dystopia of extreme male chauvinism in which very few girls are born, and all women are treated as inferior.
BT - Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time C5 -MoU-St
C6 -(b. 1948)
C7 - 1984 CY - New York DA - 01/1984 LA - eng N1 -Rpt. in The Best of Pamela Sargent. Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1987), 306-22; in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 281-90 with an editors’ note on 280; in Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, 1995), 141-51; in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 189-201 with an “Afterword to ‘Fears’” (202); in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 277-88, which gives the wrong date of the original publication; and in Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 299-309; and in her Masters of Science Fiction (Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2025), 137-152, with an Afterword on 151-152.
N2 -Dystopia of extreme male chauvinism in which very few girls are born, and all women are treated as inferior.
PB - Berkley Books PP - New York PY - 1984 SP - 174 EP - 83 T2 - Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time TI - "Fears" ER -