“The Cost to Be Wise”
| Title | “The Cost to Be Wise” |
| Year for Search | 1996 |
| Authors | McHugh, Maureen F.(b. 1959) |
| Secondary Authors | Hayden, Patrick |
| Secondary Title | Starlight 1 |
| Pagination | 260-312 |
| Date Published | 1996 |
| Publisher | Tor |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction. Ed. Christie Yant. No 49 of Lightspeed (June 2014): 206-48. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Female author (b. 1959). There is no middle name; the middle initial is all there is. |
| Full Text | 1996 McHugh, Maureen F. (b. 1959). “The Cost to Be Wise.” Starlight 1. Ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden (New York: Tor, 1996), 260-312. Rpt. in Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction. Ed. Christie Yant. No 49 of Lightspeed (June 2014): 206-48. PSt Dystopia on a planet that was a colony of Earth, forgotten by Earth and having forgotten by 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. There is no middle name; the middle initial is all there is. |
