Daughters of Earth is a trio of sci-fi stories. The front cover claims they’re novels. They aren’t. Some of them might be novellas. Others are … novelettes? It doesn’t matter. They’re definitely stories, and thus I shall call them.
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Nightpool by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Nightpool is an old school fantasy. This wasn’t a surprise. I mean, look at that cover. Look at it! It’s glorious beyond words, but also exceptionally old school.
Found by June Oldham
As a child, there was little I looked forward to more than the Scholastic Book magazine. Even in my tiny, evangelical Christian school, somehow it remained uncensored even as amazing, though-provoking books were purged from the school’s own library.