Judith Merril (1923–1997)
Author of 10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Several of the volumes in the Year's Greatest/Annual of the Year's Best S-F series have variant titles - notably The 8th Annual of the Year's Best SF = The Best of Sci-Fi No. 4 .
Source = Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Series
Works by Judith Merril
SF: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: Second Annual Volume (1957) — Editor — 67 copies
Survival Ship 6 copies
The Deep Down Dragon 4 copies
Whoever You Are 4 copies
The Shrine of Temptation 4 copies
Wish Upon a Star 3 copies
Let Her Kill Herself 3 copies
The Lady Was a Tramp 3 copies
Dead Center 3 copies
19 Astounding Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Beyond the Barriers of Space and Time 2 copies
In the Land of Unblind 2 copies
So Proudly We Hail 2 copies
Connection Completed 2 copies
Death Cannot Wither 1 copy
L'ordine e le stelle 1 copy
Stormy Weather 1 copy
Death Is the Penalty 1 copy
The Future Of Happiness 1 copy
Fremtidens folk 1 copy
The Year's Best SF 11 1 copy
The best of science fiction 1 copy
The best of sci-fi. No. 4 1 copy
Beyond Human Ken 1 copy
Sea Change 1 copy
Associated Works
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time (1970) — Contributor — 1,879 copies
The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin: A Library… (2018) — Contributor — 227 copies
Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s (1995) — Contributor — 179 copies
Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction - Fifth Series (1987) — Contributor — 84 copies
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Special 25th Anniversary Anthology (1974) — Contributor — 72 copies
New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow (1994) — Contributor — 62 copies
Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures (British Library Science Fiction Classics) (2018) — Contributor — 50 copies
Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism (1999) — Contributor — 42 copies
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Contributor — 41 copies
Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Volume Two. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories Of All Time Chosen By The Members Of The… (1970) — Contributor, some editions — 35 copies
Transformations: Understanding World History Through Science Fiction (1973) — Contributor — 25 copies
The Petrified planet: The long view, Uller uprising, Daughters of earth — Contributor — 5 copies
Science Fiction Stories November 1956 — Contributor — 4 copies
Once and future tales; from the Magazine of fantasy and science fiction (1968) — Introduction — 3 copies
Historier fra andre verdener — Contributor — 2 copies
Women Resurrected: Stories from Women Science Fiction Writers of the 50's (2011) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Merril, Judith
- Other names
- Grossman, Josephine Juliet (birth)
Sharon, Rose (pseudonym)
Judd, Cyril (pseudonym with C. M. Kornbluth) - Birthdate
- 1923-01-21
- Date of death
- 1997-09-12
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA (birth)
Canada (naturalized) - Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Place of death
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Places of residence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Bronx, New York, USA - Education
- Morris High School, Bronx, New York, USA
- Occupations
- editor
novelist
short-story writer - Relationships
- Pohl, Frederik (husband|divorced)
Pohl-Weary, Emily (granddaughter) - Organizations
- Futurians
Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference (cofounder) - Awards and honors
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1969)
SFWA Author Emeritus (1997)
Prix Aurora Award (1983)
Prix Aurora Award (1986)
SF Hall of Fame (2013) - Agent
- Viginia Kidd Agency
- Short biography
- The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy at the Toronto Public Library contains over 72,000 items.
- Disambiguation notice
- Several of the volumes in the Year's Greatest/Annual of the Year's Best S-F series have variant titles - notably The 8th Annual of the Year's Best SF = The Best of Sci-Fi No. 4 .
Source = Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Statistics
- Works
- 80
- Also by
- 55
- Members
- 3,101
- Popularity
- #8,237
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 43
- ISBNs
- 68
- Languages
- 2
- Favorited
- 4
This was the blurb that screamed from the back cover of the Galaxy re-publication of the novel written by husband and wife writing team Cyril M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril which was originally serialised in 1951. The blurb in this case is totally misleading as I have rarely read such a 'grown up' thoughtful novel from this era of pulp fiction.
Sin in Space was the 1961 reprint, but the original story had the title of Mars child, then [Outpost Mars]. The story starts with a difficult birth of a child in a struggling close knit human colony on the planet Mars: not so many science fiction books would have started with a birth scene. Tony Hellman is the doctor in attendance and he is also part of the democratically elected ruling committee of the community of Sun Lake. It is a community that prides itself on its complete sexual equality and is desperately trying to be self sufficient so that it can loosen its ties with an overcrowded and corrupt planet earth. The birth of a child is a big event in the colony which relies on drugs to enable them to breathe a rarefied atmosphere. The community receives a visit from the nearby Brenner Pharmaceutical corporation: an industrial concern that manufacture the addictive drug Marcaine. Brenner accuses the community of stealing a shipment of his drugs and demands that a search be carried out for the guilty culprit. Brenner knows that such a search would cause the release of radioactive material which could destroy the colony. The arrival in the twice yearly rocket supply ship from earth of journalist Douglas Graham, who is planning a feature book on the life of the planet, becomes a focal point for the struggle between the colony and the industrialists.
This is a well written story that also describes the hard grind of a relatively new colony trying to forge its own future on a planet where life is difficult, but whose participants have sacrificed everything to escape from planet earth. The birth of the Mars child proves to be a significant event in the life of the community and in accordance with the aims of the community the novel provides equal opportunity for both women and men to play significant roles. It is pulp fiction, but still a refreshingly good read and so 4 stars.… (more)