Larbalestier's Daughters of Earth wins Culture Award

The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association will be awarding Justine Larbalestier is the winner of the Susan Koppelman Award for an Edited volume in Women's Studies for Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. The award is one of many scheduled to be awarded by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association at its annual conference in Boston, Massachusetts, 4-7 April. The PCA/ACA "encourages scholarly discussion of popular/american and world cultures."

The anthology collects "11 key stories... and sets them alongside 11 new essays, written by top scholars and critics, that explore the stories' contexts, meanings, and theoretical implications." The stories range from Claire Winger Harris's "The Fate of the Poesidonia" (published in 1927) to Karen Joy Fowler's "What I Didn't See" (2002). The complete table of contents and more information on the book is available at publisher Wesleyan University Press's web site.