![]() This essay is an attempt to provide a reading of “Shambleau,” one which pays special attention to the dynamics of the attempt to re-narrate origin stories-dynamics which are of crucial importance both in feminist science fiction itself and in the criticism of it. Moreover, just as Frankenstein has itself spawned a seemingly endless genealogy of successors and revisions, so too has Moore’s story been subject to a degree of retelling and re-interpreting. Like Frankenstein (subtitled “The Modern Prometheus”), Moore’s story of a Medusa-like alien retells and revises a fragment from classical mythology: both texts are themselves revisions of culturally powerful origin stories. ![]() Moore’s 1933 story “Shambleau” as an alternative origin story for feminist science fiction. An interesting case might be made, however, for considering C.L. ![]() Indeed, Brian Aldiss’s Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction traces all of science fiction back to this same origin. ![]() It has become somewhat conventional to trace the roots of feminist science fiction back to Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s powerful novel of science and creation. Origin Stories: Feminist Science Fiction and C. ![]()
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