¿Qué tanto se parece nuestro presente al futuro que imaginaron las escritoras del siglo pasado? ¿Persiste el entusiasmo o la cautela ante el uso de la tecnología? ¿Nuestros problemas han cambiado, o será que nuestros sueños, temores y heridas permanecen? Bajo el título de Retrofuturismos, la segunda entrega de la colección ¡El futuro es mujer! reúne cuentos escritos entre 1931 y 1966 por Sonya Dorman, Leslie F. Stone, Elizabeth Mann Borgese, Margaret St. Clair, Leigh Brackett, Carol Emshwiller, Rosel George Brown, Leslie Perri, Katherine MacLean y Andrew North, que permiten explorar las tensiones entre el futuro y el pasado a través de historias al más puro estilo pulp, cuyo centro son las aventuras en el espacio. La primera civilización alienígena que ganó una guerra contra los humanos; una especie de extraterrestres que llega a la Tierra para compartir su conocimiento pero se enfrenta a un pueblo de humanos violentos y racistas; una perra de caza en medio de un dilema existencial en un planeta helado; viajeros espaciales que se contagian de enfermedades extrañas; una civilización sin género que se disfraza para convivir con los humanos; madres que deben mantener la armonía entre sus hijos cuando un niño de otro planeta se integra a su carpool; mujeres temerarias que no dudan en realizar actos heroicos en el espacio. Estos relatos demuestran que la escritura de ciencia ficción es un gran ejercicio de empatía. Las escritoras de esta colección imaginaron nuevos mundos a partir de la comprensión y la solidaridad hacia otros seres, quizás a partir de saberse ellas mismas representantes de cierta otredad en su época. Los cuentos aquí contenidos reafirman que mover el centro convencional de las historias que contamos no solo refresca nuestras narrativas, sino que nos invita a mover nuestro propio centro y vislumbrar así nuevas discusiones y formas de vivir en comunidad.
Authors
Pseudonym for Andre Norton https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Katherine Anne MacLean (born January 22, 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for her short stories of the 1950s which examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society. Brian Aldiss noted that she could "do the hard stuff magnificently," while Theodore Sturgeon observed that she "generally starts from a base of hard science, or rationalizes psi phenomena with beautifully finished logic." Although her stories have been included in numerous anthologies and a few have had radio and television adaptations, The Diploids and Other Flights of Fancy (1962) is her only collection of short fiction. Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, MacLean concentrated on mathematics and science in high school. At the time her earliest stories were being published in 1949-50, she received a B.A. in economics from Barnard College (1950), followed by postgraduate studies in psychology at various universities. Her 1951 marriage to Charles Dye ended in divorce a year later. She married David Mason in 1956. Their son, Christopher Dennis Mason, was born in 1957, and they divorced in 1962. MacLean taught literature at the University of Maine and creative writing at the Free University of Portland. Over decades, she has continued to write while employed in a wide variety of jobs—as book reviewer, economic graphanalyst, editor, EKG technician, food analyst, laboratory technician in penicillin research, nurse's aide, office manager and payroll bookkeeper. photographer, pollster, public relations, publicist and store detective. It was while she worked as a laboratory technician in 1947 that she began writing science fiction. Strongly influenced by Ludwig von Bertalanffy's General Systems Theory, her fiction has often demonstrated a remarkable foresight in scientific advancements.
Pseudonym of Leslie F. Silberberg (born Leslie Frances Rubenstein). She was the author of several science fiction stories, published in the 1920s-1940s in American pulp magazines such as "Amazing Stories", "Wonder Stories" and "Weird Tales". Her story "Out of the Void" was expanded and republished as a novel in 1967.
