TY - ABST T1 - "The Heads of Cerberus" Y1 - 1919 A1 - [Gertrude Barrows] [Bennett] (1884-1948?). KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a parallel Philadelphia in 2118. There is a corrupt government with many petty rules.

JF - Thrill Book (New York) VL - 2.4 - 3.2 N1 -

Repub. illus. Ric Binkley. Reading, PA: Polaris Press, 1952 with an "Introduction" by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (13-16). Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978;  New York: Carroll & Graf, 1984 with an "Introduction" by Robert Weinberg ([15-18]); and New York: The Modern Library, 2019 with an Introduction by Naomi Alderman (vii-xi).

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Repub. illus. Ric Binkley.

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Francis Stevens [pseud.]

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IaU, PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Friend Island" Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Gertrude Barrows] [Bennett] (1884-1948?). KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

JF - All-Story Weekly (New York) VL - 88.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Fantastic Novels Magazine 4.3 (September 1950): 110-16; in Under the Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of "The Scientific Romance" in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), 125-36; and 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), 5-15 with an editors' note on 4; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 152-63 with an editor’s note on 163.

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Francis Stevens [pseud.]

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DLC, Merril, PU

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