LIGHTSPEED’s June #49 – Women Destroy Science Fiction

Kickstarter has yielded a couple successful science fiction anthologies this year between Athena’s Daughters and Women Destroy Science Fiction.

From LIGHTSPEED magazine’s store:

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—our fourth anniversary 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. Plus, it features more than two dozen personal essays by women about their experiences in (or with) science fiction. All together there’s more than 150,000 words of material!

This is the EBOOK edition. If you’d like to buy the issue in trade paperback, it is available from Amazon for $15.99.

Preorder the Ebook here for $3.99.


Tricia Barr’s novel, Wynde, won the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Ebook. She was also part of Silence in the Library’s successful all-female creator science fiction and fantasy anthology Athena’s Daughters, which is available now. For excerpts and tales of her adventures in creating a fictional universe, hop over to TriciaBarr.com.

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Tricia Barr took her understanding of brand management and marketing, mixed it with a love of genre storytelling, and added a dash of social media flare to create FANgirl Blog, where she discusses Star Wars, fandom, and the intersection of women within Star Wars fandom. She is co-author of Ultimate Star Wars and Star Wars Visual Encyclopedia from DK Publishing, a featured writer for Star Wars Insider magazine with numerous articles on the Hero's Journey. Her FANgirl opinions can be heard on the podcasts Hyperspace Theories and Fangirls Going Rogue. Tricia Barr's novel, Wynde, won the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Ebook. She was also part of Silence in the Library's successful all-female creator science fiction and fantasy anthology Athena's Daughters, which is available now. For excerpts and tales of her adventures in creating a fictional universe, hop over to TriciaBarr.com.

One thought on “LIGHTSPEED’s June #49 – Women Destroy Science Fiction

  • May 27, 2014 at 2:59 pm
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    Interesting side note, Mary Shelly actually wrote two science fiction novels- Frankenstein and The Last Man. I haven’t read The Last Man yet, but it is on must read list mainly because it is set in the 21st century and I’m interested see what Shelly’s take is on this century. Back to the main point, this issue of Lightspeed is also now on my must read list. :)

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