In the 1970s, feminist authors created a new mode of science fiction in defiance of the "baboon patriarchy"--Ursula Le Guin's words--that had long dominated the genre, imagining futures that are still visionary. In this sequel to her groundbreaking 2018 anthology The Future is Female!: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek offers a time machine back to the decade when far-sighted rebels changed science fiction forever with stories that made female community, agency, and sexuality central to the American future.

Here are twenty-three wild, witty, and wonderful classics that dramatize the liberating energies of the 1970s:

• Sonya Dorman, "Bitching It" (1971)

• Kate Wilhelm, "The Funeral" (1972)

• Joanna Russ, "When It Changed" (1972) NEBULA AWARD

• Miriam Allen deFord, "A Way Out"(1973)

• Vonda N. McIntyre, "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" (1973) NEBULA

• James Tiptree, Jr., "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (1973) HUGO AWARD

• Kathleen Sky, "Lament of the Keeku Bird" (1973)

• Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974) NEBULA & LOCUS AWARD

• Eleanor Arnason, "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" (1974)

• Kathleen M. Sidney, "The Anthropologist" (1975)

• Marta Randall, "A Scarab in the City of Time" (1975)

• Elinor Busby, "A Time to Kill" (1977)

• Raccoona Sheldon, "The Screwfly Solution" (1977) NEBULA AWARD

• Pamela Sargent, "If Ever I Should Leave You" (1974)

• Joan D. Vinge, "View from a Height" (1978)

• M. Lucie Chin, "The Best Is Yet to Be" (1978)

• Lisa Tuttle, "Wives" (1979)

• Connie Willis, "Daisy, In the Sun" (1979)