A review by mindsplinters
More Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Novelettes by Women About Women by Joanna Russ, Kate Wilhelm, Pamela Sargent, Ursula K. Le Guin, Leigh Brackett, C.L. Moore, Josephine Saxton, Joan D. Vinge

3.0

A mix of stories that I quite liked, including Vinge's Tin Soldier that totally made me cry, and some that left me either confused or unimpressed. I was also completely baffled as to how some of them qualified as sci-fi. Not everything has to be hard sci-fi but some of the novellas stretched the definition of soft sci-fi to breaking point, casting it over everything from CL Moore's straight up fantasy to Le Guin's piece that read more as a meander among social constructs and change (no sci-fi, just people and revolution... vaguely). I could not help but look up the publishing date of Wilhelm's The Funeral either as it ticked so many of the same boxes as Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (Wilhelm's was published first by more than a decade but is far less comprehensive, being a novella). So there is that, too. It kind of made me want to do a deep dive and see if there was a link between them, a shared inspiration, or what have you.