In the 1950s and 1960s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction featured a good number of women writers like Zenna Henderson, Kit Reed, Carol Emshwiller, Miriam Allen deFord, and Mildred Clingerman. May these eloquent rebellions be undiscovered no longer.Ĭopyright: 2017 Book Details Book Quality: Publisher Quality ISBN-13: 9781473226371 Publisher: Orion Date of Addition: 06/21/21 Copyrighted By: A Cupful of Space, LLC.A Cupful of Space, Mildred Clingerman (1961) In every sentence there is a note (a gentle one, but insistent) of silent rebellion, a surreptitious snarl, entreating you to see that not the everyday, but an undiscovered marvel. Nearly every story here is alive with that sensibility, in the truest sense of that word. We're not apart from the universe, we're a part of it. So many of her stories are alive with the underpinning notion that the cosmological vistas we spy at the end ends of telescopes and various other means of measurement belong to the very same universe under our feet.

They barely make a ripple on the surface all their power and drive lurk deep down below. Clingerman, it seems, prided herself in concealing her effects within her masterfully constructed sentences. Other writers of the period tried to make big splashes. The key to her stories is that they appear simple and straightforward, but each takes a twist or turn that, even when you're tempted to guess where they're heading, they take you there in a way you would never have bargained on. Also included are previously unpublished works Top Hand, Tribal Customs, The Birthday Party, Fathers of Daughters and many more soon to be favourites. Sakrison's Halt, Wild Wood, The Little Witch of Elm Street and many other favourites.

Clingerman's new anthology, The Clingerman Files, includes all of her originally published stories The Day of the Green Velvet Cloak, Mr. Her stories tend to wed a literate tone to subject matters whose ominousness is perhaps more submerged than the horrors under the skin made explicit in the work of Shirley Jackson, but equally as deadly. Widely acclaimed as one of the first successful female science fiction authors, Mildred Clingerman returns with the exciting follow up to her 1961 science fiction collection, A Cupful of Space.

A Cupful of Space by Mildred Clingerman