Suzette Haden Elgin Anthologies books in order

Reading order

Suzette Haden Elgin’s presence in anthologies during the 1970s and 1980s placed her alongside the major figures of that generation of science fiction. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow… (1974) was edited by Damon Knight, one of the central figures in shaping American science fiction through both his writing and his editorial work with the Clarion workshop. Perpetual Light (1982) gathered stories dealing with spiritual and transcendent themes in a science fiction context.

These anthology appearances came during the period between Elgin’s Coyote Jones novels and the start of the Native Tongue trilogy, a time when she was active in the science fiction community through the Science Fiction Poetry Association and her teaching work. Her contributions to these collections sit within a broader mid-career moment when she was developing the ideas that would eventually produce her most enduring fiction.