The Next Mistressworks Book

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We used the randomising powers of GameBot to select the next book. From a list of 90 books, 89 of which are novels and 1 of which is an anthology of short stories, he picked the anthology.

Well, if you will rely on an IRC bot....

The lucky book is Despatches from the Frontier of the Female Mind, edited by Jen Green and Sarah LeFanu and published by the Women's Press. Like so many of the Mistressworks books, it's out of print, so recourse was had to secondhand marketplaces Alibris and Blackwell. The same three UK sellers popped up in both locations, but the book was cheaper on Blackwell by a few pennies. So my order was placed.

Monissaw decided to go local and get a shorter shipping time. In view of what happened last time I bought books for her from Alibris, this can only have been a sensible decision.



The Mistressworks entry gives the contents as follows:

Introduction - (1985) Jen Green and Sarah LeFanu
Big Operation on Altair Three - (1985) Josephine Saxton
Spinning the Green - (1985) Margaret Elphinstone
The Cliches from Outer Space - (1984) Joanna Russ
The Intersection - (1985) Gwyneth Jones
Long Shift - (1985) Beverley Ireland
Love Alters - (1985) Tanith Lee
Cyclops - (1985) Lannah Battley
Instructions for Exiting This Building in Case of Fire - (1985) Pamela Zoline
A Sun in the Attic - (1985) Mary Gentle
Atlantis 2045: no love between planets - (1985) Frances Gapper
From a Sinking Ship - (1985) Lisa Tuttle
The Awakening - (1985) Pearlie McNeill
Words - (1985) Naomi Mitchison
Relics - (1985) Zoe Fairbairns
Mab - (1985) Penny Casdagli
Morality Meat - (1985) novelette by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon ]
Apples in Winter - (1985) Sue Thomason

Some of these names are familiar. Others are not. Tanith Lee is shortly to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Fantasy Convention. Joanna Russ needs no introduction. Should be an interesting read.