AT THE SHORT REVIEW Tania Hershman reviews The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller.

Emshwiller’s work was introduced to me using the terms “science fiction” and “feminist”, but I find this reductionist in the extreme. Please do not keep her from those readers who think they don’t like writing tagged with these labels! What we have here are astonishing stories, unlike anything I have ever read, with flights of fantasy, of imagination, of language, of form. Playfulness with a serious undercurrent, using the fabulous to address the everyday from new angles, showing us our follies and foibles, making us laugh and making us think.

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