here No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction, edited by Lucie Armitt, arrives from an alternate world, distant from that of American feminist SF scholarship, a place where the fight for recognition has not advanced so far as it has here, where there are fewer warriors and fewer weapons for the side of feminism. That place is Margaret Thatcher's Britain, and the warriors stand outside the bastions of Oxbridge, blocked not only by their gender but by their interest in a still marginalized subject. This rather dramatic portrayal of Armitt's collection of essays conveys its perspective, the apology of a beleaguered British feminist SF community. That perspective is a valuable one, reminding American readers that we can ill afford the luxury of postfeminist smugness. Where No Man Has Gone Before contains an introduction by the editor; thirteen essays, ten from the scholarly world and three by science fiction writers, on a variety of feminist issues; and a brief bibliography of works cited. None of the writers speaks from the citadels of Oxford and Cambridge. Instead, the notes on contributors, all women, show a network of feminist SF academics linked together by the universities of Warwick and Sheffield, the Liverpool and Sheffield city polytechnics, and The Women's Press. The connection with The Women's Press is key, for these writers continue the discussion Sarah Lefanu began with her superb In the