Gateway Essentials: Pamela Sargent

What’s that? You want an introduction to one more author before the weekend?  Yeah, we can do that.

Pamela Sargent was born in New York and attended the State University of New York at Binghamton, attaining a master’s degree in philosophy. Sargent is regarded as one of science fiction’s most important feminist writers and is an editor of some note. She has edited a number of acclaimed anthologies, notably the ‘Women of Wonder’ series,  celebrating the contribution of women writers to the SF field. She has been nominated for or won the Hugo, Nebula, Tiptree and Sturgeon Awards.

Those looking for a place to start would be well advised to read her gripping genetics novel Cloned Lives or the post-apocalyptic The Shore of Women:

Cloned Lives (1976)	The Shore of Women (1986)

And you can find more of Pamela Sargent’s books via her Author page on the Gateway website, and read more about her in her entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.