Merril, Judith

SF: '58: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy
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    ASIN: B000CQP50C
    Crisis in 2140, Gunner Cade (Ace Double D-227)
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      H. Beam Piper , John J. McGuire , C. M. Kornbluth , and Judith Merril
      Manufacturer: Ace Books
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      Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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      ASIN: B0007EX7JU
      Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • Herstory of Science Fiction
      • a mere shadow on the hearth
      		 Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril
      Judith Merril , and Emily Pohl-Weary
      Manufacturer: Between the Lines(CA)
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback

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      ASIN: 1896357571

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      Judith Merril was a pioneer of twentieth-century science fiction, a prolific author and one of the best-known editors in the field. Nicknamed The Grandmother of Science Fiction, or The Little Mother of Science Fiction, she burst onto the scene in 1948 with a disturbing story about nuclear radiation. She was also a passionate social and political activist. In fact, her life was a constant adventure within the alternative and experimental worlds of science fiction, politics and literature. She died in 1997. Written by her granddaughter, this loving memoir and biography is illustrated with * original art works * covers from classic science fiction magazines * period illustrations * personal and art photographs Though Judith Merril's classic books are now out-of-print, they are widely available in libraries and used book stores; and first editions of her work are quite collectible.

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      5 out of 5 stars Herstory of Science Fiction.......2003-07-02

      This book is juicy (there's gossip about famous sci fi writers!) and Merril has insteresting views on important political and cultural events. It tells the story of early science fiction from the perspective of an independent, unique, fascinating woman. It made me think about how history is recorded and that the only stories that seem to count are the ones that are written down.

      3 out of 5 stars a mere shadow on the hearth.......2002-09-24

      Perhaps if Judith Merril had lived to complete her memoirs, they could have rivalled Isaac Asimov's In Memory Yet Green and In Joy Still Felt. However, we will never know; she died with her life's chronicle barely begun, leaving grand-daughter Emily to salvage this book from her notes. The result is a sump of anecdotes and letters, giving a tantalising glimpse of this prominent female member of the early science fiction writing community.

      Although Merril takes an early pop at sanitised SF autobiographies (presumably referring to ex-husband Fred Pohl's The Way the Future Was), editor Emily openly admits to cutting some of her juicier revelations; yesterday's ex-husbands are still today's cherished grandfathers. Instead, she tips reams of cliquey, fannish correspondence into the text, while neglecting all but the briefest glimpse of the inner workings of Merril's mind as an author or editor.

      I was open to the possibility that Merril was an influential SF author, or even, like Gardner Dozois, a talented writer who sacrificed her own career to help others. It was this possibility that led me to buy this book, since Merril was conspicuous in her absence from Fred Pohl's own memoirs, and I suspected something untoward was going on. However, in a book that seems to spend more time singing the praises of Toronto as a tourist destination, there is only one point at which the text devotes any significant amount of space to Merril's craft, and that only succeeds in making her look like a naïve buffoon. Her muddled musings on Japanese linguistics left me aghast, as did the realisation that this darling of the SF world had taken several months to stumble upon the realisation that a good translator should speak both the source and target language. In layman's terms, this is akin to discovering that the words you're reading are best approached from left to right.

      Emily Pohl-Weary's rescue job appears to have been a heroic effort, but ultimately self-defeating. I can only assume that there was so little of the true Merril left to work with, that the best Emily could hope for was a basic chronology of her grandmother's life, with a couple of asides on the way. I don't doubt that Merril is worthy of a book-length study, but this volume failed to provide any evidence of why. More about why her writings were so highly thought-of would have helped greatly.
      ENGLAND SWINGS SF: The Island; Ne deju vu pas; Signals; Saint 505; Singular Quest of Martin Borg; First Gorilla on the Moon; Blastoff; You and Me and the Continuum; Who's in There With Me; Squirrel Cage; Manscarer; Total Experience Kick; Hall of Machines
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        		ENGLAND SWINGS SF: The Island; Ne deju vu pas; Signals; Saint 505; Singular Quest of Martin Borg; First Gorilla on the Moon; Blastoff; You and Me and the Continuum; Who's in There With Me; Squirrel Cage; Manscarer; Total Experience Kick; Hall of Machines
        Judith (editor) (Roger Jones; Josephine Saxon; John Calder; John Clark; George Collyn; Bill Butler; Kyril Bonfiglioli; J. G. Ballard; Daphne Castell; Thomas M. Disch; Keith Roberts; Charles Platt; Michael Butterworth; Langdon Jones) Merril
        Manufacturer: Ace Books
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Paperback
        ASIN: B000AMZO5E
        Shadow On The Hearth
        Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
        • Nuclear Holocaust book by leftist
        • Nuclear Holocaust book by leftist
        		 Shadow On The Hearth
        Judith Merril
        Manufacturer: DoubleDay
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Unknown Binding
        ASIN: B0007DW9TA

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        3 out of 5 stars Nuclear Holocaust book by leftist.......2005-01-16

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        Shadow on the Hearth by Judith Merril
        Unknown Binding ASIN: B00005WTJZ

        "A tense, prophetic novel of one woman's world -- after the bomb falls."

        "Shadow on the Hearth is the story of Gladys Mitchell, a young, attractive Westchester housewife who, through hope and courage, successfully fought the chaos in the wake of an atomic war."

        "...then the frantic terror, mounting slowly as the great mushroom cloud had mounted a few hours ago over New York Harbor."

        Author's first novel

        "Judith Merrill (b. 1923), a pen name for Josephine Juliet Grossman, was active in the Trotskyist movement in the late 1930s, and still ideologically influenced by it in the 1940s."
        - Alan Wald in Encyclopedia of the left. Second edition. p. 726.

        "The novel is unusual for the period in that it also emphasizes the necessity of opposing mindless Red-baiting."
        - Paul Brians, Nuclear holocausts: atomic war in fiction, 1895-1984. p. 259.

        Judith Merril was born Josephine Judith Grossman in Manhattan in 1923. She married for the first time in 1940 and adopted Merril as her legal last name in 1941. In 1948, she published her first science fiction short story, "That Only a Mother," in Astounding, a story which gained her a great deal of renown. Just two years later she published her first novel, Shadow on the Hearth, one of the few novels she was to write. In 1956 she started two things that went on to have great impact on science fiction: she helped organize the first Milford SF Writers Conference, and she edited the first of twelve annual Best SF anthologies for Dell. In 1968 she edited an influential anthology of British New Wave SF, England Swings SF, and later that year she moved to Canada as protest to the Vietnam War. She made a gift of her personal collection to the Toronto Public Library in 1970, founding the Spaced Out Library (which was later renamed the Merril Collection). In 1985 she edited the first volume of Tesseracts, which has become a successful series of Canadian short science fiction. She died in 1997 at age 74.

        3 out of 5 stars Nuclear Holocaust book by leftist.......2005-01-16

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        Shadow on the hearth by Judith Merril
        Publisher: Doubleday; 1st ed edition (1950) ASIN: B0007DW9TA

        "A tense, prophetic novel of one woman's world -- after the bomb falls."

        "Shadow on the Hearth is the story of Gladys Mitchell, a young, attractive Westchester housewife who, through hope and courage, successfully fought the chaos in the wake of an atomic war."

        "...then the frantic terror, mounting slowly as the great mushroom cloud had mounted a few hours ago over New York Harbor."

        Author's first novel

        "Judith Merrill (b. 1923), a pen name for Josephine Juliet Grossman, was active in the Trotskyist movement in the late 1930s, and still ideologically influenced by it in the 1940s."
        - Alan Wald in Encyclopedia of the left. Second edition. p. 726.

        "The novel is unusual for the period in that it also emphasizes the necessity of opposing mindless Red-baiting."
        - Paul Brians, Nuclear holocausts: atomic war in fiction, 1895-1984. p. 259.

        Judith Merril was born Josephine Judith Grossman in Manhattan in 1923. She married for the first time in 1940 and adopted Merril as her legal last name in 1941. In 1948, she published her first science fiction short story, "That Only a Mother," in Astounding, a story which gained her a great deal of renown. Just two years later she published her first novel, Shadow on the Hearth, one of the few novels she was to write. In 1956 she started two things that went on to have great impact on science fiction: she helped organize the first Milford SF Writers Conference, and she edited the first of twelve annual Best SF anthologies for Dell. In 1968 she edited an influential anthology of British New Wave SF, England Swings SF, and later that year she moved to Canada as protest to the Vietnam War. She made a gift of her personal collection to the Toronto Public Library in 1970, founding the Spaced Out Library (which was later renamed the Merril Collection). In 1985 she edited the first volume of Tesseracts, which has become a successful series of Canadian short science fiction. She died in 1997 at age 74.
        THE SEVEN (7) DEADLY SINS OF SCIENCE FICTION: Sail 25; Divine Madness; Hook the Eye and Whip; Midas Plague; Man Who Ate the Worlds; Margin of Profit; Peeping Tom; Invisible Man Murder Case; Galley Slave
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          		THE SEVEN (7) DEADLY SINS OF SCIENCE FICTION: Sail 25; Divine Madness; Hook the Eye and Whip; Midas Plague; Man Who Ate the Worlds; Margin of Profit; Peeping Tom; Invisible Man Murder Case; Galley Slave
          Isaac; Waugh, Charles G.; Greenberg, Martin H. (editors) (Jack Vance; Roger Zelazny; Michael G. Coney; Frederik Pohl; Poul Anderson; Judith Merril; Henry Slesar) Asimov
          Manufacturer: Fawcett Books
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Hardcover
          ASIN: B000GVS9F6
          Shadow on the Hearth
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            		Shadow on the Hearth
            Judith Merril
            Manufacturer: Doubleday Garden City
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Hardcover
            ASIN: B000C211EK
            Human?
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              		Human?
              Judith, ed. by Merril
              Manufacturer: Lion
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Paperback
              ASIN: B000BK1K1M
              SF 12
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                		SF 12
                Judith Merril Editor
                Manufacturer: Delacorte
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Hardcover
                ASIN: B000JYXER8
                Path Into the Unknown
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                  		Path Into the Unknown
                  Ilya Varshavsky , Vladislav Krapivin , Sever Gansovsky , Arkady & Boris Strugatsky , G. Gor , and Anatoly Dneprov
                  Manufacturer: Dell
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Paperback
                  ASIN: B000CL53RC

                  Product Description

                  The Best of Soviet Science Fiction.

                  Authors:

                  1. Merrill, James
                  2. Merriman, Brian
                  3. Merritt, A.
                  4. Merwin, W. S.
                  5. Metastasio, Pietro
                  6. Mew, Charlotte
                  7. Michaels, Anne
                  8. Michaels, Melisa
                  9. Michaux, Henri
                  10. Micheline, Jack

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