@booklet {8568, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Cost to Be Wise{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Starlight 1}, year = {1996}, note = {

Rpt. in Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction. Ed. Christie Yant. No 49 of Lightspeed (June 2014): 206-48.

}, month = {1996}, pages = {260-312}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia on a planet that was a colony of Earth, forgotten by Earth and having forgotten Earth, which is rediscovered but remains a generally primitive, ignorant, and violent society. The novella describes the conflict that takes place during a visit by people from Earth. Female author.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959)}, editor = {Patrick Nielsen Hayden} }