Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

Body of Glass (He, She and It) (1991) postulates an environmentally ruined world dominated by sprawling mega-cities and a futuristic version of the Internet, through which Piercy weaves elements of Jewish mysticism and the legend of the Golem, although a key story element is the main character's attempts to regain custody of her young son.

Piercy tells this in an introduction to Body of Glass. William Gibson has credited Woman on the Edge of Time as the birthplace of Cyberpunk.

This novel is considered a classic of utopian 'speculative' science fiction as well as a feminist classic. Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) mixes a time travel story with issues of social justice, feminism, and the treatment of the mentally ill. All of her books share a focus on women's lives. Other of her novels, such as Summer People and The Longings of Women are set during the modern day. Clarke Award, City of Darkness, City of Light is set during the French Revolution.

While Body of Glass (published in the US as He, She and It) is a science fiction novel that won the Arthur C. Her novels and poetry often focus on feminist or social concerns, although her settings vary. 'It taught me that there's a different world there, that there were all these horizons that were quite different from what I could see,' she said in a 1984 interview.Īs of 2013, she is author of seventeen volumes of poems, among them The Moon is Always Female (1980, considered a feminist classic) and The Art of Blessing the Day (1999), as well as fifteen novels, one play ( The Last White Class, co-authored with her third and current husband Ira Wood), one collection of essays ( Parti-colored Blocks for a Quilt), one non-fiction book, and one memoir. Her first book of poems, Breaking Camp, was published in 1968.Īn indifferent student in her early years, Piercy developed a love of books when she came down with rheumatic fever in her mid-childhood and could do little but read. Winning a Hopwood Award for Poetry and Fiction (1957) enabled her to finish college and spend some time in France, and her formal schooling ended with an M.A. She was the first in her family to attend college, studying at the University of Michigan. Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a family deeply affected by the Great Depression. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers, a sweeping historical novel set during World War II. Marge Piercy is an American poet, novelist, and social activist.

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy