Some of the stories were good, some others were not, most of them I would not classify as Scifi...

What a wondrous collection of stories! Such a great reading experience. Each story is powerful, and deliciously complex, with such well-crafted world-building, you forget you are immersed in a short story, and not a novel. I had a chance to revisit a few of my very favorite women writers in science-fiction, and add new authors to my list. As a constant seeker of science-fiction stories by women, I realized that I had read a handful of these stories previously, but all were worth rereading! Highl...

Where to begin? Because there is so little of it, I will start with what praise I can give before the criticism. Encapsulated within this collection are a few very good stories that deserve recognition. My favorites, in order, are;IMMERSION by Aliette De Bodard.SPIDER THE ARTIST by Nnedi Okorafor.DANCING IN THE SHADOW OF THE ONCE by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz.These three were the only ones I was willing to rate as 5 stars. There are a few 4 star selections.THE RADIANT CAR THY SPARROWS DREW by Catherynn...

Girl Hours - Sofia Samatar - 5 StarsExcerpt from a Letter by a Social-Realist Aswang by Kristin Mandigma - 3 StarsSomadeva: a Sky River Sutra by Vandana Singh - 5 StarsThe Four Generations of Chang E by Zen Cho - 5 StarsOn the Leitmotif of the Trickster... by Nicole Kornher-Stace - 5 StarsImmersion by Aliette de Bodard - 5 StarsThe Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew by Catherynne M. Valente - 5 Stars

This book has an awkward title and a cover with a sexy lady...beheading a robot? There is absolutely no reason for this to be a good book. They could have sold as many copies just mashing together some mediocre stories. That seems to be what the marketing arm thought this was.And yet. It is magnificent. It is a superb collection. Alex Dally MacFarlane found some of the most exquisite stories, all of them resonating with each other, reweaving questions of gender and race and culture and the futur...

All anthologies are mixed bags, but this one more so than most. That's not just a judgment call from me - one of the entries is actually a nonfiction essay about Mary Anning. It's also not marked as nonfiction, which left my hopes for an alternate history where Mary Anning discovers alien bones sorely disappointed.There were the expected good stories from Nnedi Okorafor, Katherine Addison, and Aliette de Bodard. There's also a set of authors I will have to look into because I liked their stories...

This is a terrific collection of SciFi stories by some wonderful women writers. Many of the stories were 5 stars there were just a few that weren't so great that kept the whole collection from being a 5. A lot of the authors I had heard of and read before but I found a few new ones to pursue. I can definitely see myself returning to some of these stories to reread.

Anthology The average of the stories I read is 2.17 stars. I usually rate upwards but this is so close to 2 that I'm giving it 2 stars out of 5.1. Girl hours by Sofia Samatar -- This felt like a poem and a free form thought progression had a sci-fi baby. I didn't like it. 1 star.2. Excerpt from a letter by a social-realist Aswang / Kristin Mandigma -- I first had to look up Aswang : A shapeshifting monster usually possessing a combination of the traits of either a vampire, a ghoul, a witch, or d...

I am quite shocked that this book has received so few ratings so far. It's a fantastic collection of modern sci-fi done by authors who are not showcased nearly enough: women, many of them racialised. Like all anthologies, I did not enjoy every single story. However, the compilation as a whole was quite satisfying, and the stories that stood out were simply amazing. Many of these stories engage with sci-fi from the perspective of colonised people, and the messages and themes that come out of thes...

An enormous curate's egg, mostly stinky and curdled. The Le Guin is not the best Le Guin there's ever been, but then the worst Le Guin is better than etc etc etc. I didn't mind the Karen Joy Fowler, nice very deliberate measured style. Didn't mind the poems at the beginning.

cross posted from fox and fictioni read a review for another mammoth short story collection where someone complained that the book was filled with too much estrogen. being such a blatant misogynist must be terrible because they are missing out on gems like this. not only is it filled with stories by authors i love, but it introduced me to a whole new flock of women writers that i can't wait to read more of. the best part is that so many of the stories were about women loving women- that's entire...

I rated each story and gave 3 stars to nine stories, 2 stars to seven stories, and 1 star to the rest (seventeen stories). The following stories are the ones I actually liked and gave 3 stars:"Spider the Artist" by Nnedi Okorafor"The Science of Herself" by Karen Joy Fowler"Astrophilia" by Carrie Vaughn"Valentines" by Shira Lipkin"Dancing in the Shadow of the Once" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz"The Death of Sugar Daddy" by Toiya Kristen Finley"Sing" by Karin Tidbeck"Concerning the Unchecked Growth of Ci...

This book gets almost a solid 'WTF?'I thought 3 stories good, and a few ok, the rest pretty much gave me a headache from my eyes being crinkled at the WTF'ness of them.

Ah, time to review this collection of short stories that I read over a period of two years. Let's see what I can remember.Fortunately, I posted updates about most of the stories almost immediately after reading them, which helps. Looking back at the earlier stories, I remember "The Other Graces" by Alice Sola Kim most distinctly as a fascinating story that I would like to revisit; I enjoyed "Spider the Artist" by Nnedi Okorafor and "The Science of Herself" by Karen Joy Fowler, although I was alr...

3 1/2 stars (but closer to 3)Very uneven collection, with too strong a preponderance of really mediocre work for me to rate it higher. The works here by Gorodischer, Le Guin, Kress, Fowler, and Vonarburg are classics and would be worthy inclusions in any SFF anthology (and I've seen a least a couple of these printed elsewhere), and stories by Nalo Hopkinson, Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, Nisi Shawl, Catherynne M. Valente, Toiya Kristen Finley, Nicole Kohrner-Stace, and E. Lily Yu are enjoyab...

Finally gave up. The stories are so inconsistent - one will be good and several in a row will be really, spectacularly bad.

I'm taking this off my " currently reading" shelf because I just can't. This is probably the worst anthology that I could have bought to get me interested in short stories because it simply gives me so much frustration. If my love for short stories can be judged by how many short stories I finished while in college, that would probably be down to 1 per anthology – and even with that one, I probably skimmed it. If it was "Short Stories about Planetary Discovery by Women" or "Short Stories about A...

I really tried but I just had to give up at page 163 (I kept starting a story, not really enjoying it then skim-reading/skipping to the end of that one), I just was't enjoying the stories, they were all to experimental for me and felt more driven by the writing style and concept than by plot or characters. Some of them were interesting but I didn't actually enjoy any of the 11 stories I tried. Clearly who ever collated this just has a completely different reading taste to me.

I don't know if this is actually a *mammoth* book -- my copy is 500-odd pages, which doesn't seem unusually thick -- but the editor chose to focus on proper short stories, so there are a whopping 33 stories. Moreover, as the introduction points out, it tries to assemble a snapshot of diversity; the stories have all been published elsewhere first, but in a pretty large number of outlets, so having them all in one location may be of great benefit. Brief author biographies are included at the end,

Honestly, there were only 3 stories that I really enjoyed. Maybe my hopes were set too high for this one. I'm sad I didn't like it very much.