Widely respected in the so-called mainstream for her New York Times bestselling novels, Karen Joy Fowler is also a formidable, often controversial, and always exuberant presence in Science Fiction. Here she debuts a provocative new story written especially for this series. Set in the days of Darwin, The Science of Herself is a marvelous hybrid of SF and historical fiction: the almost-true story of England´s first female paleontologist who took on the Victorian old-boy establishment armed with only her own fierce intelligence-and an arsenal of dino bones.
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The Pelican Bar, a homely tale of family ties that makes Guantánamo look like summer camp; The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man, a droll tale of sports, shoplifting and teen sex; and The Motherhood Statement, a quietly angry upending of easy assumptions that shows off Fowler´s deep radicalism and impatience with conservative homilies and liberal pieties alike.
And Featuring: our Outspoken Interview in which Fowler prophesies California´s fate, reveals the role of bad movies in good marriages, and intimates that girls just want to have fun (which means make trouble).