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Women's contributions to science fiction over the past century have been lasting and important, but critical work in the field has only just begun to explore its full range. Justine Larbalestier has collected 11 key stories -- many of them not easily found, and all of them powerful and provocative -- and sets them alongside 11 new essays, written by top scholars and critics, that explore the stories' contexts, meanings, and theoretical implications. The resulting dialogue is one of enormous significance to critical scholarship in science fiction, and to understanding the role of feminism in its development. Organized chronologically, this anthology creates a new canon of feminist science fiction and examines the theory that addresses it. Daughters of Earth is an ideal overview for students and general readers.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century) - essay by Justine Larbalestier
• The Fate of the Poseidonia - (1927) - shortstory by Clare Winger Harris
• Illicit Reproduction: Clare Winger Harris's "The Fate of the Poseidonia" - essay by Jane L. Donawerth [as by Jane Donawerth]
• The Conquest of Gola - (1931) - shortstory by Leslie F. Stone
• The Conquest of Gernsback: Leslie F. Stone and the Subversion of Science Fiction Troupes - essay by Brian Attebery
• Created He Them - (1955) - shortstory by Alice Eleanor Jones
• From Ladies' Home Journal to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 1950s SF, the Offbeat Romance Story, and the Case of Alice Eleanor Jones - essay by Lisa Yaszek
• No Light in the Window - (1963) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• Cold War Masculinity In the Early Work of Kate Wilhelm - essay by Josh Lukin
• The Heat Death of the Universe - (1967) - shortstory by Pamela Zoline
• A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline's "The Heat Death of the Universe" - essay by Mary E. Papke
• And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - (1972) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
• (Re)reading James Tiptree Jr.'s "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill Side" - essay by Wendy Pearson
• Wives - (1979) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
• The Universal Wife: Exploring 1970s Feminism with Lisa Tuttle's "Wives" - essay by Cathy Hawkins
• Rachel in Love - (1987) - novelette by Pat Murphy
• Simians, Cyborgs, and Women in "Rachel in Love" - essay by Joan Haran
• The Evening and the Morning and the Night - (1987) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• Octavia Butler -- Praise Song to a Prophetic Artist - (2006) - essay by Andrea Hairston
• Balinese Dancer - (1997) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• "Prefutural Tension": Gwyneth Jones's Gradual Apocalypse - essay by Veronica Hollinger
• What I Didn't See - (2002) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Something Rich and Strange: Karen Joy Fowler's "What I Didn't See" - (2006) - essay by L. Timmel Duchamp

If you lived in a world where everyone had a personal fairy, what kind would you want? Unfortunately for Charlie, she's stuck with a parking fairy - if she's in the car, the driver will fiind the perfect parking spot. Tired of being treated like a personal parking pass, Charlie devises a plan to ditch her fairy for a more useful model. But Charlie soon learns there are consequences for messing with fairies - and she will have to resort to extraordinary measures to set things right again.

Micah will freely admit that she's a compulsive liar, but that may be the one honest thing she'll ever tell you. Over the years she's duped her classmates, her teachers, and even her parents, and she's always managed to stay one step ahead of her lies. That is, until her boyfriend dies under brutal circumstances and her dishonesty begins to catch up with her. But is it possible to tell the truth when lying comes as naturally as breathing? Taking readers deep into the psyche of a young woman who will say just about anything to convince them-and herself-that she's finally come clean, Liar is a bone-chilling thriller that will have readers see-sawing between truths and lies right up to the end. Honestly.

'I promise,' said Rosa. 'I won't kill and I won't make anyone else kill.'

As far as I know.

Che Taylor has four items on his list: 1. He wants to spar, not just train in the boxing gym. 2. He wants a girlfriend. 3. He wants to go home. 4. He wants to keep Rosa under control.

Che's little sister Rosa is smart, talented, pretty, and so good at deception that Che's convinced she must be a psychopath. She hasn't hurt anyone yet, but he's certain it's just a matter of time. And when their parents move them to New York City, Che longs to return to Sydney and his three best friends. But his first duty is to his sister Rosa, who is playing increasingly complex and disturbing games. Can he protect Rosa from the world - and the world from Rosa?

My Sister Rosa will have you on the edge of your seat from the very first page to the last.

Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, 1932. Gloriana Nelson and Mr. Davidson, two ruthless mob bosses, have reached a fragile peace - one maintained by "razor men". Kelpie, orphaned and living on the street, is blessed and cursed with the ability to see Razorhurst's many ghosts, and she sees the cracks already forming in their truce. Then Kelpie meets Dymphna Campbell.

Dymphna is a legendary beauty and prized moll of Gloriana Nelson. She's earned the nickname "Angel of Death" for the trail of beaus who have died trying to protect her from Mr. Davidson's assassins. Unbeknownst to Kelpie, Dymphna can see ghosts, too, and as Gloriana's hold crumbles one burly henchman at a time, the girls will need one another more than ever.

As loyalties shift and betrayal threatens at every turn, Dymphna is determined to not only survive but rise to the top with Kelpie at her side.

Readers who love vampire romances will be thrilled to devour Team Human by Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan. Team Human celebrates and parodies the Twilight books, as well as other classics in the paranormal romance genre.

Mel is horrified when Francis Duvarney, arrogant, gorgeous, and undead, starts at her high school. Mel's best friend, Cathy, immediately falls for the vampire. Cathy is determined to be with him forever, even if having him turn her could inadvertently make her a zombie.

And Mel is equally determined to prove to her BFF that Francis is no good, braving the city's vampire district and kissing a cute boy raised by vampires as she searches evidence in this touching and comic novel.

It's the epic battle of brains against manes. Which side are you on?

It's a question as old as time itself: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? This all-original anthology edited by Holly Black (Team Unicorn) and Justine Larbalestier (Team Zombie) makes strong arguments for both sides in the form of spectacular short stories. Half of the stories portray the strengths--for good and evil--of unicorns, and half show the good (and really, really badass) side of zombies. Contributors include many bestselling authors, including Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson, Meg Cabot, Scott Westerfeld, and Margo Lanagan.

This anthology will have everyone asking: Team Zombie or Team Unicorn?

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier
• The Highest Justice - short story by Garth Nix
• Love Will Tear Us Apart - novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• The Purity Test - short story by Naomi Novik
• Bougainvillea - novelette by Carrie Ryan
• A Thousand Flowers - novelette by Margo Lanagan
• The Children of the Revolution - novelette by Maureen Johnson
• The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn - novelette by Diana Peterfreund
• Inoculata - novelette by Scott Westerfeld
• Princess Prettypants - novelette by Meg Cabot
• Cold Hands - short story by Cassandra Clare
• The Third Virgin - novelette by Kathleen Duey
• Prom Night - novelette by Libba Bray

The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction is a lively account of the role of women and feminism in the development of American science fiction during its formative years, the mid-20th century. Beginning in 1926, with the publication of the first issue of Amazing Stories, Justine Larbalestier examines science fiction's engagement with questions of femininity, masculinity, sex and sexuality. She traces the debates over the place of women and feminism in science fiction as it emerged in stories, letters and articles in science fiction magazines and fanzines.

The book culminates in the story of James Tiptree, Jr. and the eponymous Award. Tiptree was a successful science fiction writer of the 1970s who was later discovered to be a woman. Tiptree's easy acceptance by the male-dominated publishing arena of the time proved that there was no necessary difference in the way men and women wrote, but that there was a real difference in the way they were read.

For fifteen years, Reason Cansino has lived on the run.Together with her mother, Sarafina, she has moved from one place to another in the Australian countryside, desperate not to be found by Reason’s grandmother Esmeralda, a dangerous woman who believes in magic. But the moment Reason walks through Esmeralda’s back door and finds herself on a New York City street, she’s confronted by an unavoidable truth— magic is real.

Fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino has learned the painful truth that she— like her mother, grandmother, and new friends Tom and Jay-Tee—must make a choice: to use the magic that lives in her blood and die young, or refuse to use the magic and lose her mind. Now a new threat leaves Reason stranded alone in New York City, struggling to control a power she barely understands. But could the danger she faces also hold the key to saving her life?

Magic Lessons is the stunning follow-up to Larbalestier's lavishly praised debut novel, Magic or Madness, called a "radiant gem" and a "fierce, hypnotic novel" in starred reviews.

In the third and final installment in the Magic or Madness trilogy, only Reason can find answers within her family’s magic to save everyone that matters most to her.

Magic’s Child is the fantastically gripping conclusion to a trilogy that launched to multiple starred reviews, earning spots on the 2006 BBYA final list, and the Locus 2005 and 2006 Recommended Reading Lists.