In the 1970s, she edited the Women of Wonder series, the first collections of science fiction by women her other anthologies include Bio-Futures and, with British writer Ian Watson as co-editor, Afterlives. The Washington Post Book World has called her “one of the genre's best writers.” Her most recent short story collection is Thumbprints, published by Golden Gryphon Press, with an introduction by James Morrow. She is the author of the novels Cloned Lives, The Sudden Star, Watchstar, The Golden Space, The Alien Upstairs, Eye of the Comet, Homesmind, Alien Child, The Shore of Women, Venus of Dreams, Venus of Shadows, Child of Venus, Climb the Wind, and Ruler of the Sky. In 2012, she was honored with the Pilgrim Award by the Science Fiction Research Association for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship.

(Jan.Pamela Sargent has won the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. Sargent's flat prose is plodding and ridden with cliches, but it helps anchor the exotic excesses of the violent world she describes. Genghis Khan himself enjoys simultaneously bedding two additional wives, Tatar sisters Yisui and Yisugen, and we also read of his homosexual relationship with a friend whom he later orders to be hung. Still another spouse, Ch'i-kyuo, a ladylike Chinese princess, has lesbian trysts with a Han concubine. Another wife, Ibakha, rashly attempts to convert the ruler from worship of the sky-god Tengri to Christianity. His chief wife, Bortai, is bitter over his neglect of her. His doting mother, Honelun, stirs his lust for vengeance by telling tall tales of his father's poisoning. We see Genghis Khan through the eyes of women who loved and manipulated him. In Sargent's ( The Shore of Women ) somewhat romanticized portrayal, the Mongol ruler is a schizoid figure capable of both monstrous savagery and saintly humility and forgiveness.

The ruthless 13th-century warrior Genghis Khan, who built a vast empire in his drive for world conquest, is the subject of this workmanlike historical novel, a panorama of warfare, intrigue, sex and betrayal.

The Shore of Women by Pamela Sargent