"Out of the Void"

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Title"Out of the Void"
Year for Search1929
Authors[Silberberg], [Leslie Frances](1905-1991)
Secondary AuthorsStone, Leslie F. [pseud.]
Secondary TitleAmazing Stories
Volume / Edition4.5 - 4.6
Pagination440-55, 544-65
Date PublishedAugust – September 1929
ISSN Number0002-6891
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Mostly adventure and romance, but a flawed high-tech utopia is present that is vegetarian, telepathic, can communicate with animals, has painless euthanasia for both humans and animals, and has an island with no government set aside for higher education where men and women are free to go to study and teach. But the society is also hierarchical with slavery and has treated one group as not even able to be slaves. The ending indicates that some of this will change.

Info Notes

Rpt. New York: Avalon Books, 1967; U.K. ed. London: Hale, 1971; and in Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction. Ed. Lisa Yaszek and Patrick B. Sharp (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2016), 27-105 with a discussion of the author on 26-27.
Pseudonym

Leslie F. Stone [pseud.]
Holding Institutions

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Author Note

Female author (1905-1991).
Full Text

1929 [Siberberg, Leslie Frances] (1905-1991). “Out of the Void.” By Leslie F. Stone [pseud.]. Amazing Stories 4.5 – 6 (August – September 1929): 440-55, 544-65. Rpt. New York: Avalon Books, 1967; U.K. ed. London: Hale, 1971; and in Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction. Ed. Lisa Yaszek and Patrick B. Sharp (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2016), 27-105 with a discussion of the author on 26-27.

The first of two stories about winged people in South America that were created by an English scientist and have evolved into a substantial, well-established civilization, conflicts with the outside world, and, finally, acceptance and integration. In comparison to the men, the women are small and weak. The second story is “Women With Wings.” Illus. [Ed] Leonard. Air Wonder Stories 1.11 (May 1930): 984-1003. In it, the political geography of the world has changed substantially, primarily through consolidation, and the world is ruled by the representatives (all men) of the ten most powerful nations. “Color was of no consequence” (986). Universal language (987). Use the sun and radium for energy (988). The issue faced by the culture is that a high percentage of women are dying in childbirth. Contact is made with Venus where an amphibious race has evolved, also with wings, in which the women are dominant, and the men are weak and small. The solution for Earth is interbreeding which is successful. Female author.