Podcast appearances and mentions of Leslie F Stone

Containing matters pertaining to a Ruby, a Rocket and a Romance. Timestamps: background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary (38:26) spoiler general discussion (1:49:00) Bibliography: Amazing Stories, August 1929 issue https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume04Number05 Amazing Stories, September 1929 issue https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v04n06_1929-09_jvh-sas Davin, Eric Leif - "Partners in wonder - Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965" (2005) Jerry eBooks - introduction to "Leslie F. Stone Collected Tales" (2020) Music: Davis, Auguste - "Neptune Mazurka" (1874) https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1874.14975/

“When the Flame-Flowers Blossomed” by Leslie F. Stone, first sought sunlight in the November 1935 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The tale was described as follows: “A bizarre fantasy about strange life found on Venus by two explorers from Earth.”

VINTAGE SCIENCE FICTION BY VISIONARY WOMEN Written between 1931 and 1979, these 13 stories show how different women have, in different eras, envisioned the future of their sex. Selecting its contents from lesser known writers, Future Eves presents Leslie F. Stone's novelette "The Conquest of Gola" (1931), an encounter with Earth males told from the point-of-view of an alien matriarch. So far ahead of its time, nothing like it would be attempted again in science-fiction until the work of Alice Sheldon (aka, James Tiptree, Jr.) in the 1970s. Hazel Heald's novelette "The Man of Stone," is searingly feminist, all the more so since her heroine, like so many women of the time, takes her brutalized situation so much for granted. In "Miss Millie's Rose" (1959), Joy Leache manages what so few male science-fiction writers of the era seemed able to do: portray a character whose psychology arises out of her future world and not our own. Betsy Curtis' "The Goddess of Planet Delight" is a short novel in the classic mode that mixes a sociological puzzle with pointed satire, high-adventure, and romance. Brace yourself for Djinn Faine's "Daughter of Eve", a story you will never forget, no matter how hard you try. Plus stories by Florence Engel Randall, Evelyn Goldstein, Beth Elliot, Evelyn E. Smith, Marcia Kaimien, and others. Future Eves is fascinating to listen to, both as science-fiction and as an eye-opening view into futures past. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode I look at five stories collected in THE FUTURE IS FEMALE edited by Lisa Yaszek. Clare Winger Harris, "The Miracle of the Lily"Leslie F. Stone, "The Conquest of Gola"C. L. Moore, "The Black God's Kiss"Lesli Perri, "Space Episode"Judith Merril, "That Only a Mother"

With this episode, we jump ahead about 60 years from when our last story was written. Still well before what would be dubbed the Golden Age of Science Fiction, this story is a bit less sciencey, and a bit more fiction. Written by a woman, Leslie F. Stone, at a time when getting a story published as such was no small feat. She provides a unique perspective in this tale of future colonialism and forces the reader (or listener) to step outside status quo.