VIGLIANTE, Mary

   Working name of Mary Vigliante Szydlowski (1946-), who has also published sf as by Jarl Szydlow; she writes woman-centred tales whose taste for violence has struck from the first a note of ambivalence. Titles include The Ark (1978) as by Szydlow and the Aftermath Books, a post- HOLOCAUST sequence comprising The Colony (1979) and The Land (1979). Alsoas MV she has published 2 similar tales: Source of Evil (1980) and Worship the Night (1982). Unlike FEMINIST work, her novels seemed to express a sense that the oppression of women could be exhilarating.

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