Merrick, Helen
Entry updated 16 July 2025. Tagged: Author, Critic.
(? - ) Australian author and critic who has contributed to Foundation, Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature and Strange Horizons. Her first book-length work of sf interest was Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism (anth 1999), edited with Tess Williams, which mixes relevant reprint fiction with critical essays. A Feminist study of some importance is The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms (2010); the title of the Cyborg exploration Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway (2013) with Margret Grebowicz references and homages the critical work of Donna J Haraway. Merrick is a contributor to this encyclopedia. [DRL]
Helen Merrick
born
works
nonfiction
- The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms (Seattle, Washington: Aqueduct Press, 2010) [nonfiction: Feminism: pb/Lee Abuabara]
- Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013) with Margret Grebowicz [nonfiction: hb/]
works as editor
- Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism (Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1999) with Tess Williams [anth: Feminism: pb/Freddie Baer]
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