The Best of Judith Merril Author:Judith Merril Collection of Science Fiction short stories. In future centuries, in space, women will face problems that will try their souls: the mother whose newborn bears the effects of radiation; the girl in whose body a new race must begin; the women who must rule a generation-spanning search through space for new settling grounds; the woman who mus... more »t be all women to the male crew of a space ship. No matter how mechanized our journeys into space become, inside the space suits we are human.
Contents:
Introduction (Best of Judith Merril) (1976) • essay by Virginia Kidd
That Only a Mother (1948) / short story by Judith Merril
The Shrine of Temptation (1962) / short story by Judith Merril
Whoever You Are (1952) / novelette by Judith Merril
Daughters of Earth (1952) / novella by Judith Merril
Stormy Weather (1954) / short story by Judith Merril
Dead Center (1954) / novelette by Judith Merril
The Lady Was a Tramp (1957) / short story by Judith Merril
Wish Upon a Star (1958) / short story by Judith Merril
The Lonely (1963) / short story by Judith Merril
Auction Pit(1946) • poem by Judith Merril
In the Land of Unblind (1974) / short fiction by Judith Merril