Justine Larbalestier

novels for young adults and other humans

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cover of Daughters of EarthThe following are the introduction and one sample chapters from Daughters of Earth. For extra enjoyment make sure you read the story the essay discusses first.

Introduction by Justine Larbalestier

A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline’s ‘The Heat Death of the Universe’ by Mary E. Papke (click here to the read the story on scifiction)

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      • "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" by Octavia Butler (1987) and "Octavia Butler—Praise Song to a Prophetic Artist" by Andrea Hairston.
      • A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline's "The Heat Death of the Universe" by Mary E. Papke
      • Introduction
  • The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction

Recent Posts

  • Street Harassment: 2003 Viewed with 2018 Eyes

    14 March, 2018

    Fifteen years ago I wrote this and then never posted it because I never finished it. I post it here now because, frankly, I’m a bit freaked out by how blasé I am about harassment. Why now it only happens a few times a week. That’s awful, fifteen-years-ago Justine! I hated being harassed then and […]

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  • New(ish) US paperback cover of My Sister Rosa + Scott news

    2 February, 2018

    It published on 26 December 2017 but I was too cold and frozen fingered to blog about it so here it is now in all its glory. SoHo Teen have done Rosa proud: My Sister Rosa has been shortlisted for the Adelaide Writers Festival Book Awards in the YA category. I’m thrilled. They only give […]

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  • Bye, Bye Twitter (For a bit)

    30 May, 2017

    Late Sunday night I realised I hadn’t looked at Twitter all day. That never happens. I’m a Twitter addict. Sunday was wonderful. We cycled from the East Village to Red Hook and back, via Vinegar Hill and Dumbo, taking breaks to eat and explore the various neighbourhoods along the way. It was splendid and I […]

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  • The Faddishness of Publishing

    26 May, 2017

    NB: Every example I give in this post will soon be out of date. I’m only talking Young Adult publishing in the USA. What follows may be a tad exaggerated. Publishing may be an old and crusty industry, that sometimes still runs on handshakes, but it is also flighty and driven by fads. Right now […]

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  • On Writing a Good, Kind, Nice, Empathetic Main Character

    30 April, 2017

    What’s the hardest part of writing has to be one of the most frequently asked questions. For me the answer to that question depends on what I’m writing. I don’t just mean whether I’m writing a blog post or a novel. It changes with each particular piece of writing. My latest novel, My Sister Rosa, […]

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