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Brian W. Aldiss letter to Luan Ranzetta

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Call Number:
F0620
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
1 item (1 page)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0099, F0620, Aldiss, Brian W., letter to Luan Ranzetta, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1963 october 7 (inclusive)
Form:
Letters (correspondence) and Science fiction
Abstract:
A typed and signed letter from English writer and anthologies editor Brian W. Aldiss to Mrs. Luan Ranzetta expressing gratitude for having sent him two of her science-fiction novels. Aldiss confirms Ranzetta's suspicion that she might be the only female science-fiction writer in Britain, while acknowledging Hilary Bailey's first story appeared in one of Britain's science-fiction magazines recently. He also mentions America's sole female science-fiction writer at the time Judy Merril, praising her work, Shadow on the Hearth, though stating that "[s]he has not done anything to rival it since."

A typed and signed letter from English writer and anthologies editor Brian W. Aldiss to Mrs. Luan Ranzetta expressing gratitude for having sent him two of her science-fiction novels. Aldiss confirms Ranzetta's suspicion that she might be the only female science-fiction writer in Britain, while acknowledging Hilary Bailey's first story appeared in one of Britain's science-fiction magazines recently. He also mentions America's sole female science-fiction writer at the time Judy Merril, praising her work,

Shadow on the Hearth, though stating that "[s]he has not done anything to rival it since."

Box 37, F0620: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.

Processed and encoded by George Apodaca, February 2016.

This item forms part of MSS 0099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

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University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2016 February 19
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Brian W. Aldiss letter to Luan Ranzetta, 1963 October 7.
Box 37 Folder F0620

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