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A review by savaging
The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women by Catherynne M. Valente, Nancy Kress, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carrie Vaughn, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Aliette de Bodard, Natalia Theodoridou, Benjanun Sriduangkaew
5.0
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 future. Read about communist vampires in the Philippines, oil pipelines guarded by sensitive spider-robots in Nigeria, Yoruban myth-monsters, anarchist bees in China, and Black space-colonies curing disease by connecting to ancestral funk musicians.
The standard thing to say about anthologies is that they are 'uneven.' What surprises me about this one is how consistently fantastic it is.
Also: so many lesbians! Highly recommend.
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 future. Read about communist vampires in the Philippines, oil pipelines guarded by sensitive spider-robots in Nigeria, Yoruban myth-monsters, anarchist bees in China, and Black space-colonies curing disease by connecting to ancestral funk musicians.
The standard thing to say about anthologies is that they are 'uneven.' What surprises me about this one is how consistently fantastic it is.
Also: so many lesbians! Highly recommend.