Where No Man has Gone Before

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<P>How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women?</P><P>To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics?</P><P>What has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the academic establishment and the publishing industry?</P><P>These are just some of the questions addressed by this collection of original essays by women writers, readers and critics of the genre. But the undoubted existence of a recent surge of women¿s interest in science fiction is by no means the full story. From Mary Shelley onwards, women writers have played a central role in the shaping and reshaping of this genre, irrespective of its undeniably patriarchal image. Through a combination of essays on the work of writers such as Doris Lessing and Ursula Le Guin, with others on still-neglected writers such as Katherine Burdekin and C. L. Moore and a wealth of contemporaries inclu