The Science of Herself by Karen Joy Fowler

The Science of Herself by Karen Joy Fowler

Widely respected in the so-called "mainstream" for her New York Times bestselling novels, Karen Joy Fowler is also a formidable, often controversial, and always exuberant presence in Science Fiction. Here she debuts a provocative new story written especially for this series. Set in the days of Darwin, "The Science of Herself" is a marvelous hybrid of SF and historical fiction: the almost-true story of England's first female paleontologist who took on the Victorian old-boy establishment armed with only her own fierce intelligence--and an arsenal of dino bones.

Plus...
"The Pelican Bar," a homely tale of family ties that makes Guantánamo look like summer camp; "The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man," a droll tale of sports, shoplifting and teen sex; and "The Motherhood Statement," a quietly angry upending of easy assumptions that shows off Fowler's deep radicalism and impatience with conservative homilies and liberal pieties alike.

And Featuring: our Outspoken Interview in which Fowler prophesies California's fate, reveals the role of bad movies in good marriages, and intimates that girls just want to have fun (which means make trouble).

Karen Haber is the author of eight books, including Star Trek: Voyager - Bless the Beasts; writer of Science of the X-Men; and editor of J.R.R. Tolkien's Hugo-nominated essay anthology. Mediations on Middle-earth, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and a number of anthologies. She writes book reviews for Locus magazine and profiles artists for publications such as Realms of Fantasy. Haber and her husband, Robert Silverberg, live in Oakland, California.

Robert Zohrab is a digital artist and designer from Australia whose work has been featured on book covers and corporate brochures. Among his clients are the Manta recording business, for which he designed album covers and advertising material, and ibooks, inc., for whom he provided cover images for new trade editions of Brian Aldiss's landmark Helliconia trilogy, among others. Darrel Anderson, a digital-art pioneer, rose from the underground comix scene to found braid.com, one of the first and most popular art Web sites. He worked on the animated CGI conclusion of the 1995 film Johnny Mnemonic with members of the BRAID collective and PCA Graphics.

A total of 48 of his images may be found on the Science Fiction Channel's website, and he is featured in Dick Jude's Fantasy Art of the New Millennium II. His work has won top prizes in a number of worldwide competitions, including Pixar's call for images and MacWorld's Macintosh Masters. Anderson is a programmer and an artist who works on both sides of the screen. GroBoto, one of his most recent creations, is an interactive art tool that allows children to explore their creativity while also allowing artists to further theirs.

Braid.com is where you can see and try out Anderson's work.