Short story by Joanna Russ
"Souls " is a 1982 science fiction novella by Joanna Russ . It was first published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in January 1982,[1] and subsequently republished in Terry Carr 's The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 ,[2] in Russ's 1984 collection Extra(ordinary) People ,[3] as well as in the first volume of the Isaac Asimov /Martin H. Greenberg -edited anthology The New Hugo Winners ,[4] and in 1989 as half of a Tor Double Novel (with "Houston, Houston, Do You Read? " by James Tiptree, Jr. ).[5]
Plot
In 12th-century Germany, Radulphus tells the story of Radegunde, abbess of the abbey where he spent his childhood, and of what she did "when the Norsemen came" — and of how he discovered her true nature.[6]
Reception
"Souls" won the 1983 Hugo Award for Best Novella [1] and the Locus Award for Best Novella ,[3] and was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novella .[7]
Stephen Burt has described the story as "perfectly wrought".[8]
References
^ a b c 1983 Hugo Awards , at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved February 3, 2014
^ The best science fiction of the year: #12 , at the Toronto Public Library ; retrieved February 3, 2014
^ a b Russ, Joanna at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ; edited by John Clute ; published November 16, 2013; retrieved February 3, 2014
^ The New Hugo Winners, record number 281856 , at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database ; retrieved February 3, 2014
^ "A Checklist of the Tor Doubles", by Christopher P. Stephens; published 1993 by Ultramarine Publishing
^ Reading Joanna Russ: Extra(ordinary) People (1984), Part 1 , by Lee Mandelo; at Tor.com ; published January 10, 2012; retrieved February 11, 2024
^ Joanna Russ (1937-2011) , at Locus ; published April 29, 2011; retrieved February 3, 2014
^ When Science Fiction Changed: Joanna Russ, In Memoriam , by Stephen Burt ; in the Beacon Broadside ; published May 20, 2011; retrieved February 3, 2014
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