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4 unusual facts about Marge Piercy


Going Down Fast

Going Down Fast (ISBN 0-449-24480-6) is a 1969 novel by Marge Piercy.

Joanna Kavenna

This section clearly pastiches a tradition of dystopian dialogue, from William Morris through H G Wells, to Marge Piercy, as well as the classic sci-fi interrogation scene.

Mattapoisett, Massachusetts

A fictitious future Mattapoisett features largely in the 1976 novel Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy.

Wellfleet, Massachusetts

As of May 2011, the chair of the board of selectmen is Ira Wood, husband of poet Marge Piercy.


Women in speculative fiction

Additionally, movement among writers concerned with feminism and gender roles sprang up, leading to a genre of "feminist science fiction including Joanna Russ' 1975 The Female Man, Samuel R. Delany's 1976 Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia, and Marge Piercy's 1976 Woman on the Edge of Time.


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