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Better to have loved : the life of Judith Merril / Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : Between the Lines, 2002Description: 282 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1896357571
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.54
Contents:
Writing my grandmother's autobiography Emily Pohl-Weary
Prelude
Transformation
In the beginning
A member of the universe
High school
What kind of feminist am I? (a short history of sex)
(Some kind of) writing : science fiction and the futurians
Virginia Kidd and futurian motherhood
Give the girls a break!
A (real?) writer : homage to Ted Sturgeon
Getting started as a writer
Kornbluth and Leiber and all ...
Katherine MacLean and the ESP letter
Walter Miller and the custody battles
In appreciation of Mark Clifton
Where do you get those crazy ideas?
A power in the ghetto : swinging London, sour America, and "free" Canada
Rochdale college : a "what if" time
Toronto tulips traffic and grass : the love token of a token immigrant
Living and working in the Toronto cultural scene
Japan future probable
The whole world is watching : considering the notions of privacy and publicy
The 1980s : friendships and letters — Marian Engel and Gwendolyn MacEwen
The crazies are dying
Exorcism on parliament hill
Growing old in the 1990's : dear friends
A message to some Martians
Improbable futures
Summary: Judith Merril was a pioneer of twentieth-century science fiction, a prolific author, and editor. She was also a passionate social and political activist. In fact, her life was a constant adventure within the alternative and experimental worlds of science fiction, left politics, and Canadian literature. Better to Have Loved is illustrated with original art works, covers from classic science fiction magazines, period illustrations, and striking photograph.
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Book Book Main Library Reference Section Women’s Collection WC 813.54 M571b 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 132528d

Includes index.

Writing my grandmother's autobiography Emily Pohl-Weary

Prelude

Transformation

In the beginning

A member of the universe

High school

What kind of feminist am I? (a short history of sex)

(Some kind of) writing : science fiction and the futurians

Virginia Kidd and futurian motherhood

Give the girls a break!

A (real?) writer : homage to Ted Sturgeon

Getting started as a writer

Kornbluth and Leiber and all ...

Katherine MacLean and the ESP letter

Walter Miller and the custody battles

In appreciation of Mark Clifton

Where do you get those crazy ideas?

A power in the ghetto : swinging London, sour America, and "free" Canada

Rochdale college : a "what if" time

Toronto tulips traffic and grass : the love token of a token immigrant

Living and working in the Toronto cultural scene

Japan future probable

The whole world is watching : considering the notions of privacy and publicy

The 1980s : friendships and letters — Marian Engel and Gwendolyn MacEwen

The crazies are dying

Exorcism on parliament hill

Growing old in the 1990's : dear friends

A message to some Martians

Improbable futures

Judith Merril was a pioneer of twentieth-century science fiction, a prolific author, and editor. She was also a passionate social and political activist. In fact, her life was a constant adventure within the alternative and experimental worlds of science fiction, left politics, and Canadian literature. Better to Have Loved is illustrated with original art works, covers from classic science fiction magazines, period illustrations, and striking photograph.

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