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Eric Leif Davin

Author of Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965

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Eric Leif Davin is professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, winner of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation's Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for his historical writing, and author of Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914-1960.

Works by Eric Leif Davin

Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965 (2005) 21 copies, 1 review

Pioneers of Wonder: Conversations With the Founders of Science Fiction (1999) 16 copies

Crucible of freedom : workers' democracy in the industrial heartland, 1914-1960 (2010) 6 copies

Radicals in Power: The New Left Experience in Office (2012) 3 copies

Orphans of the Storm: A Shared Memoir of the Radical Seventies (2020) 3 copies

The Desperate and the Dead (2014) 2 copies

Anarchist Mexico: Ricardo Flores Magon and La Casa del Obero in the Mexican Revolution (2022) 1 copy

Hope in a Long Winter: A Memoir of Cambridge in the Seventies (2023) 1 copy

The Great Strike of 1877 (2018) 1 copy

The Paterson Strike Pageant: An IWW Novel of Bohemia and Insurgent Labor (2019) 1 copy

The Year of Hope and Fear: Insurrection and Repression, 1919 (2022) 1 copy

Associated Works

Encyclopedia of the American Left (1990) — Contributor, some editions — 119 copies

We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s (1996) — Contributor — 49 copies

The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 2 (2016) — Contributor — 33 copies, 3 reviews

The Best of Galaxy's Edge 2013-2014 (2014) — Contributor — 21 copies

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Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965 by Eric Leif Davin

Oops. Essays and the bibliography. No stories. Immensely valuable, but not at all what I wanted.

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