The Soul Selects Her Own Society
"The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective" is a 1996 science fiction short story by Connie Willis. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in April 1996, but written for the anthology War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, in which it was published in June 1996; it was subsequently republished in War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives on the H. G. Wells Classic (2005), in This is My Funniest: Leading Science Fiction Writers Present Their Funniest Stories Ever (2006), in The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories (2007), and in The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories (2013).[1]
Synopsis
Rather than being a conventional narrative, "Selects" is presented as a
Reception
"Selects" won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.[2] A. M. Dellamonica has described it as "especially great";[3] however, The Wellsian (the official journal of the H. G. Wells Society) considers it to be "gibberish" which "wastes the reader's time."[4] "Selects" was omitted from the 2015 German translation of Best of Connie Willis, because "the publisher felt that the humor didn't translate well".[5]
References
- ^ The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database; retrieved December 10, 2016
- ^ 1997 Hugo Awards, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved December 10, 2016
- Tor.com; published June 24, 2015; retrieved December 10, 2016
- ^ Book Review: Glenn Yeffeth, ed; The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives on the H. G. Wells Classic, reviewed by John S. Partington; in The Wellsian, No. 29, page 53; archived at Durham University; published 2006; retrieved December 10, 2016
- ^ Scide Splitters: LoveStar by Andri Snaer Magnason Archived 24 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine, reviewed by David Kilman, at Amazing Stories; published June 24, 2015; retrieved December 10, 2016