"Options"

Title"Options"
Year for Search1979
AuthorsVarley, John [Herbert](b. 1947)
Secondary AuthorsCarr, Terry [Gene](1937-87)
Secondary TitleUniverse
Volume / Edition 9
Pagination153-82
Date Published1979
PublisherDoubleday
Place PublishedGarden City, NY
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Impact of easy sex change operations on a society that had strived for gender equality but still had significant inequalities. Experiencing both genders from the inside improves things.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year #9. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), 192-225; in his Blue Champagne. Illus. Todd Cameron Hamilton (Nile, IL: Dark Harvest, 1986), 223-62;  and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 363-90.

Holding Institutions

Merril, MoU-St

Author Note

(b. 1947)

Full Text

1979 Varley, John [Herbert] (b. 1947). “Options.” Universe 9. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979), 153-82. Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year #9. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), 192-225; in his Blue Champagne. Illus. Todd Cameron Hamilton (Nile, IL: Dark Harvest, 1986), 223-62; and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 363-90. Merril, MoU-St

Impact of easy sex change operations on a society that had strived for gender equality but still had significant inequalities. Experiencing both genders from the inside improves things.