Suzie Eisfelder
November 12, 2015

For my final entry in Female Science Fiction authors I’ve chosen Valentina Zhuravleva for two reasons: the first is because she’s Russian and; the second is for this review written two years ago.

James Lecky, author of the blog, goes into raptures about Zhuravleva’s short story The Astronaut and affirms it as one of his favourites. Like me, he loves the short story format and talks about The Astronaut at length, examining the writing style and enthusing.

Often Zhuravleva wrote with her husband who was the inventor of TRIZ, the name is translated as “theory of the resolution of invention-related tasks”, but sometimes wrote by herself. Their collaborations were all published under her name due to anti-Semitic restrictions.

She’s mentioned in The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters which I’ve happily found for you to look at and not buy, should you decide you want to pay half price for an ebook a quick google will find the link for you. She’s also mentioned in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature which is a little cheaper but it’s another one I link to for your edification and not for your buying.

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