Better to Have Loved:
The Life of Judith Merril

By Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary

Hugo Award-winner (2003).
Shortlist finalist for the Toronto Book Award.

Cover of Better to Have Loved.

"Assembled from scraps, fragments, previously published essays, and polished manuscripts by Judith Merril's grandaughter, Emily Pohl-Weary, has done a superhuman job and deserves immense credit." --Asimov's Science Fiction

"All praise to hardworking, self-taught astronomer Emily Pohl-Weary, who has helped her grandmother become immortal; an honour Judith Merril earned, a punishment she deserved, and a final joke on her that she would have loved." --Globe and Mail

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Read Judith Merril's Legacy, an essay written by Emily Pohl-Weary for Homecalling, the omnibus collection of Merril's short fiction released in February, 2005.

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The 2003 Hugo statue.In 2002, Pohl-Weary completed her grandmother's autobiography (Between the Lines). Judith Merril, known as "the little mother of science fiction," started it before she passed away in 1997, leaving an incomplete manuscript and 12 tapes worth of interviews.

Merril burst onto the New York literary scene in 1948 with a disturbing story about nuclear radiation. Her life was a microcosm of alternative cultural and political movements. Born into early Zionist circles, Judith ventured as a teenager into the Trotskyism of the 1930s and '40s. From there she became involved with emergent science fiction, resistance to the war in Vietnam, the Free University movement, and tuning-in and turning-on.

In 1968, Judith moved to Canada with the draft dodgers, to live and work in Rochdale, Toronto’s student-run university. Read the book and learn how early science fiction writers lived, argued, dated, mimeoed their manifestos, learned step by step how to write stories, and (in some cases) how to get paid for them.

Visit JudithMerril.com or Between the Lines for more details or to order copies of the books.

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Contact the Publisher

Between the Lines (publisher of Better to Have Loved)
E-mail. Tel: 416-535-9914 or 1-800-718-7201. Fax: 416-535-1484.
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