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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