Women have long held a pivotal role in science fiction, shaping the genre with their innovative storytelling. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is widely accepted as the first science fiction novel ever written. From the very beginning many of science fiction, fantasy, and horror’s best, most influential writers have been female. Collected here in this captivating, five hundred page anthology are nineteen stories from visionary women of the golden age. Included are:Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett, Robots of the World! Arise! by Mari Wolf, I''ll Kill You Tomorrow by Helen Huber, The Tree of Life by C. L. Moore, The Monkey Spoons by Mary Elizabeth Counselman, The Lost Gods by Dorothy Quick, Each Man Kills by Victoria Glad, Way Station by Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Mop-Head by Leah Bodine Drake, Exile from Space by Judith Merril, Contagion by Katherine MacLEAN, Piety by Margaret St. Clair, Bride of the Dark One by Florence Verbell Brown, Shatter the Wall by Sydney Van Scyoc, The Ignoble Savages by Evelyn E. Smith, Grove of the Unborn by Lyn Venable, No Pets Allowed by M. A. Cummings, The Putnam Tradition by Sonya Dorman, Star Hunter by Andre Norton.