HARRIS, Clare Winger

HARRIS, Clare Winger
(1891-1968)
   US writer (known also as Mrs F.C. Harris), the first woman to publish sf in the specialized 1920s PULP MAGAZINES, beginning with "A Runaway World" for Weird Tales in 1926. "The Fate of the Poseidonia"(1927) won third prize in an AMZ contest. She experimented with a female point of view in "The Fifth Dimension" (1928), and her stories generally feature strong women, most notably Sylvia, airplane pilot and mechanic in "The Ape Cycle" (1930). Her work often dealt with beings on the borders ofhumanity - CYBORGS and ape-people (APES AND CAVEMEN) in particular. She assembled her work in Away from Here and Now (coll 1947).
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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