Scottish Short Stories 1976

Literature & Fiction

Naomi Mitchison

Gordon McGill

P.M. Hubbard

george-mackay-brown

Alan Jackson

Robert A. Crampsey

Carl MacDougall

Paul Mills

Janet Caird

Dobie Giles

Short Stories & Anthologies

Collins

The Land the Ravens Found (Black Knight)

Knight Books (Brockhampton)

During a long drought in Botswana when money for school is scarce, a thirteen-year-old girl discovers that her skill at making pottery is the key to her continued education.

The Family at Ditlabeng (An Ariel book)

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

The Barbarian

Popular Library

<p>Naomi Mitchison, daughter of a distinguished scientist, sister of geneticist J B S Haldane, was always interested in the sciences, especially genetics. Her novels did not tend to demonstrate this, and she did not publish a Science Fiction novel until almost forty years into her fiction-writing career. Isobel Murray's Introduction here argues that it is by no means 'pure' Science Fiction: the success of the novel depends not only on the extraordinarily variety of life forms its heroine encounters and attempts to communicate with on different worlds: she is also a very credible human, or Terran, with recognisibly human emotions and a dramatic emotional life. This novel works effectively for readers who usually eschew the genre and prefer more traditional narratives. Explorers like Mary are an elite class who consider curiosity to be Terrans' supreme gift, and in the novel she more than once takes risks that may destroy her life. Her voice, as she records her adventures and experiments, is individual, attractive and memorable.<br />
Isobel Murray is Emeritus Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of Aberdeen.</p>

Memoirs of a Spacewoman

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

New English Library

From September 1939 to August 1945, Naomi Mitchison kept a diary at the request of the social research organization Mass-Observation.

Among You Taking Notes: The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison, 1939-1945

Gollancz

Alexander the Great (Then & There)

Longman

Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Women's Press Ltd.

Big House

Children's Books

Combridge,B'ham.

The Corn King and the Spring Queen (Virago modern classics)

Genre Fiction

Virago Press Ltd.

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