No Woman Born
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Jump to navigationJump to searchMoore, C. L. "No Woman Born." Astounding Dec. 1944. Coll. The Best of C. L. Moore. Lester del Rey, ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975. New York: Ballantine, "A Del Rey Book" (Afterword by CLM), 1976. Rpt. Human Machines (q.v. under Anthologies). Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology. Patricia S. Warrick et al., eds. New York: Harper, 1988.
A great entertainer's personality and talents are transferred into a mechanical body so they will not be lost with her death. See under Literary Criticism the TMG essays by A. Gordon and A. H. Jones.[[1]]
Discussed with great insight in Thomas L. Wymer's “Feminism, Technology, and Art in C. L. Moore’s “No Woman Born”.” ‘’Extrapolation’’ 47.1 (Spring 2006): 51-65.