No one projects herself more penetratingly into the psyche of the women of future centuries than Judith Merril. With the probe of her imagination, as precise and powerful as a space shot, she envisions the problems they will face and how those problems will try their souls: the mother whose newborn bears the effects of radiation; the girl in whose body a new race must begin; the women who must rule a generation-spanning search through space for new settling grounds; the woman who must be all women to the male crew of a space ship. No matter how mechanized our journeys into space become, inside the space suits we are human; and Judith Merril predicts we always will be.

CONTENTS
Introduction by Virginia Kidd
1. That Only a Mother (1948)
2. The Shrine of Temptation (1962)
3. Whoever You Are (1952)
4. Daughters of Earth (1952)
5. Stormy Weather (1954)
6. Dead Center (1954)
7. The Lady Was a Tramp (1957)
8. Wish upon a Star (1958)
9. The Lonely (1963)
10. Auction Pit (1946) poem
11. In the Land of Unblind (1974)