Table of Contents (and Cover): THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF SF STORIES BY WOMEN Edited by Alex Dally MacFarlane

Posted on April 24, 2014 by John DeNardo in Art, Books // 8 Comments

Check out this outstanding lineup for Alex Dally MacFarlane’s upcoming (December 2014) anthology from Running Press, The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women:

Here’s the book description:

33 outstanding science fiction stories by women

Travel by train to the Moon, discover living spaceships born in gas giants and explore the constellations, alternate universes and post-apocalyptic worlds of this compelling collection of SF written by women.

Whether crossing the stars or constructing the future of our planet, women have always written powerful, important science fiction. This anthology showcases the most exceptional SF stories written by women in recent decades, from classic stars Ursula K. Le Guin and Angélica Gorodischer; science fiction greats Karen Joy Fowler and Nancy Kress; new award-winning talents Elizabeth Bear, Nnedi Okorafor and Aliette de Bodard; and many more.

Here’s the table of contents…
(A larger version of the cover, with art by Joe Roberts, appears below.)

“Girl Hours” by Sofia Samatar
“Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-realist Aswang” by Kristin Mandigma
“Somadeva: A Sky River Sutra” by Vandana Singh
“The Queen of Erewhon” by Lucy Sussex
“Tomorrow Is Saint Valentine’s Day” by Tori Truslow
“Spider the Artist” by Nnedi Okorafor
“The Science of Herself” by Karen Joy Fowler
“The Other Graces” by Alice Sola Kim
“Boojum” by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
“The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul” by Natalia Theodoridou
“Mountain Ways” by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Tan-Tan and Dry Bone” by Nalo Hopkinson
“The Four Generations of Chang E” by Zen Cho
“Stay Thy Flight” by Élisabeth Vonarburg
“Astrophilia” by Carrie Vaughn
“Invisible Planets” by Hao Jingfang
“On the Leitmotif of the Trickster Constellation in Northern Hemispheric Star Charts, Post-Apocalypse” by Nicole Kornher-Stace
“Valentines” by Shira Lipkin
“Dancing in the Shadow of the Once” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
“Ej-Es” by Nancy Kress
“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu
“The Death of Sugar Daddy” by Toiya Kristen Finley
“Enyo-Enyo” by Kameron Hurley
“Semiramis” by Genevieve Valentine
“Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard
“Down the Wall” by Greer Gilman
“Sing” by Karin Tidbeck
“Good Boy” by Nisi Shawl
“The Second Card of the Major Arcana” by Thoraiya Dyer
“A Short Encyclopedia of Lunar Seas” by Ekaterina Sedia
“Vector” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“Concerning the Unchecked Growth of Cities” by Angélica Gorodischer
“The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew” by Catherynne M. Valente

Book info as per Amazon US:

Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Running Press (December 2, 2014)
ISBN-10: 0762454709
ISBN-13: 978-0762454709

Kathryn (@Loerwyn) // April 24, 2014 at 2:38 am //

Now this has me interested, and it looks like it’s quite diverse. I don’t see any authors I know to be LGBT, though, but it wouldn’t surprise me if a few were.

I think I may just have to (though the title is a little iffy).

Wolverina // April 24, 2014 at 5:52 am //

I’m aware of several QUILTBAG authors on that TOC…
Shira Lipkin // April 24, 2014 at 2:19 pm //

Yep, there are a bunch of us in there.
- Kathryn (@Loerwyn) // April 24, 2014 at 4:05 pm //
  
  Yay! I realise in hindsight I could have phrased that a trillion times better, but yay! all the same.
maddog // April 27, 2014 at 2:48 am //

Ummm “quite diverse” and a anthology celebrating and exclusively being done by one certain sex does seem to come off a bit hypocritical.

But yes, I suppose one could in a limited way state that this could be skewed as diverse for a book that is designed to be Exclusive.

If it’s good will always and ever be the real question.