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  • Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 49, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction!

    (By Christie Yant)

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    “Book Descriptions: It could be said that women invented science fiction; after all, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is considered by many to be the first science fiction novel. Yet some readers seem to have this funny idea that women don’t, or can’t, write science fiction. Some have even gone so far as to accuse women of destroying science fiction with their girl cooties. So to help prove how silly that notion is, LIGHTSPEED's June 2014 issue is a Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue and has a guest editor at the helm.

    The issue features original fiction by Seanan McGuire, Charlie Jane Anders, N.K. Jemisin, Carrie Vaughn, Maria Dahvana Headley, Amal El-Mohtar, and many more. All together there's more than 180,000 words of material, including: 11 original short stories, 15 original flash fiction stories, 4 short story reprints and a novella reprint, 7 nonfiction articles, and 28 personal essays by women about their experiences reading and writing science fiction.

    Table of Contents

    FROM THE EDITORS

    Editorial, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction!

    ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES — edited by Christie Yant

    Each to Each by Seanan McGuire
    A Word Shaped Like Bones by Kris Millering
    Cuts Both Ways by Heather Clitheroe
    Walking Awake by N.K. Jemisin
    The Case of the Passionless Bees by Rhonda Eikamp
    In the Image of Man by Gabriella Stalker
    The Unfathomable Sisterhood of Ick by Charlie Jane Anders
    Dim Sun by Maria Dahvana Headley
    The Lonely Sea in the Sky by Amal El-Mohtar
    A Burglary, Addressed By a Young Lady by Elizabeth Porter Birdsall
    Canth by K.C. Norton

    REPRINTS — selected by Rachel Swirsky

    Like Daughter by Tananarive Due
    Love is the Plan the Plan is Death by James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)
    The Great Loneliness by Maria Romasco Moore
    Knapsack Poems by Eleanor Arnason
    The Cost to Be Wise by Maureen F. McHugh (novella)

    ORIGINAL FLASH FICTION — edited by Robyn Lupo

    Salvage by Carrie Vaughn
    A Guide to Grief by Emily Fox
    See DANGEROUS EARTH-POSSIBLES! by Tina Connolly
    A Debt Repaid by Marina J. Lostetter
    The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced by Sarah Pinsker
    #TrainFightTuesday by Vanessa Torline
    The Hymn of Ordeal, No. 23 by Rhiannon Rasmussen
    Emoticon by Anaid Perez
    The Mouths by Ellen Denham
    M1A by Kim Winternheimer
    Standard Deviant by Holly Schofield
    Getting on in Years by Cathy Humble
    Ro-Sham-Bot by Effie Seiberg
    Everything That Has Already Been Said by Samantha Murray
    The Lies We Tell Our Children by Katherine Crighton

    NONFICTION — edited by Wendy N. Wagner

    Artists Spotlight by Galen Dara
    Illusion, Expectation, and World Domination Through Bake Sales by Pat Murphy
    Women Remember by Mary Robinette Kowal
    Interview: Kelly Sue DeConnick by Jennifer Willis
    How to Engineer a Self-Rescuing Princess by Stina Leicht
    The Status Quo Cannot Hold by Tracie Welser
    Screaming Together: Making Women’s Voices Heard by Nisi Shawl

    PERSONAL ESSAYS — edited by Wendy N. Wagner

    We are the Fifty Percent by Rachel Swirsky
    Science Fiction: You’re Doin’ It Wrong by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
    Join Us in the Future Marissa Lingen
    Are We There Yet? by Sheila Finch
    Not a Spaceship, Robot, or Zombie in Sight by Anne Charnock
    Writing Among the Beginning of Women by Amy Sterling Casil
    Toward a Better Future by Nancy Jane Moore
    We Are the Army of Women Destroying SF by Sandra Wickham
    Read SF and You’ve Got a Posse by Gail Marsella
    Stomp All Over That by O. J. Cade
    For the Trailblazers by Kristi Charish
    Women are the Future of Science Fiction by Juliette Wade
    We Have Always Fought by Kameron Hurley
    Writing Stories, Wrinkling Time by Kat Howard
    Where Are My SF Books? by DeAnna Knippling
    Reading the Library Alphabetically by Liz Argall
    Stepping Through a Portal by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
    The Wendybird by Stina Leicht
    I Wanted to be the First Woman on the Moon by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
    Never Think of Yourself as Less by Helena Bell
    An ABC of Kickass by Jude Griffin
    Stocking Stuffers by Anaea Lay
    Breaching the Gap by Brooke Bolander
    Women Who Are More Than Strong by Georgina Kamsika
    A Science-Fictional Woman by Cheryl Morgan
    Your Future is Out of Date, Pat Murphy
    Stray Outside the Lines by E. Catherine Tobler
    My Love Can Destroy by Seanan McGuire

    AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS — edited by Jude Griffin

    Seanan McGuire
    Kris Millering
    Heather Clitheroe
    N.K. Jemisin
    Rhonda Eikamp
    Tananarive Due
    Gabriella Stalker
    Charlie Jane Anders
    Maria Dahvana Headley
    Amal El-Mohtar
    Elizabeth Porter Birdsall
    K.C. Norton
    Eleanor Arnason
    Maria Romasco Moore
    Maureen McHugh”

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