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The Hidden Side of the Moon

First edition
Cover artist	Kandy Littrell
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	St. Martin's Press
Publication date	January 1988
Publication place	United States
Pages	229 pp
ISBN	0-312-01105-9
OCLC	317523235

The Hidden Side of the Moon is a feminist science fiction collection of short stories by Joanna Russ, first published in 1987 by St. Martin's Press. The collection covers stories published from 1959 ("Nor Custom Stale," Russ' first published story) to 1983.

Contents

• "The Little Dirty Girl" (1982)
• "Sword Blades and Poppy Seed" (1983)
• "Main Street: 1953" (1983)
• "How Dorothy Kept Away the Spring" (1977)
• "This Afternoon" (1968)
• "This Night, At My Fire" (1966)
• "I Had Vacantly Crumpled It into My Pocket... But By God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life!" (1964)
• "Come Closer" (1965)
• "It's Important to Believe" (1980)
• "Mr. Wilde's Second Chance" (1966)
• "Window Dressing" (1970)
• "Existence" (1975)
• "Foul Foul" (1971)
• "A Short and Happy Life" (1969)
• "The Throwaways" (1969)
• "The Clichés From Outer Space" (1975)
• "Elf Hill" (1982)
• "Nor Custom Stale" (1959)
• "The Experimenter" (1975)
• "Reasonable People" (1974)
• "Life in a Furniture Store" (1965)
• "Old Pictures" (1973)
  • "I. Visiting" (1967)
  • "II. Visiting Day" (1970)
• "Old Thoughts, Old Presences" (1975)
  • "I. The Autobiography of My Mother" (1975)
  • "II. Daddy's Little Girl" (1975)

References

1. "Publication: The Hidden Side of the Moon".

External links

• The Hidden Side of the Moon title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• "The Hidden Side of the Moon". The Locus Index to Science Fiction. Retrieved 20 March 2011.

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