Heiresses of Russ 2015
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ed. by Jean Roberta and Steve Berman
Stories about lesbians, women who choose women as primary partners, lovers, playmates, and co-conspirators, tend to go where few men have gone before. Most of the real-life issues that lesbians must deal with, as women and as members of non-mainstream communities, appear in these stories in metaphorical form or as plausible scenarios in a future or alternate world. Lesbianism itself was routinely described by the conservatives of the past as "impossible." The formula of "woman + woman" is thus logically connected with other phenomenon formerly considered impossible: magic, witchcraft, folk cures, scientific discoveries, alternate methods of producing offspring, space travel, communication with beings who are not human or not living in human bodies, historical accounts that have been suppressed or denied. The Heiresses of Russ series seeks to offer readers the best lesbian-themed speculative fictions stories published the prior year.
"The Highwayman Come Riding" by M. Bennardo
"Made Light" by Melissa Moorer
"Sarah’s Child" by Susan Jane Bigelow
"Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land" by Ruthanna Emrys
"Knotting Grass, Holding Ring" by Ken Liu
"Nkásht íí" by Darcie Little Badger
"Spores" by Seanan McGuire
"Ghost-Writer" by Shannon Connor Winward
"Cold Wind" by Nicola Griffith
"Real Monsters" by B.R. Sanders
"Because I Prayed This Word" by Alex Dally MacFarlane
"Tears of the Gods" by Sarah L. Byrne
"Game Fae" by Vivien Jackson
"Repair Mission" by Annabeth Leong
"Final Escape" by Stacia Seaman
"Skeletons" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
"Morrigan in the Sunglare" by Seth Dickinson
"Golden Daughter, Stone Wife" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Paperback, 300 pages
Stories about lesbians, women who choose women as primary partners, lovers, playmates, and co-conspirators, tend to go where few men have gone before. Most of the real-life issues that lesbians must deal with, as women and as members of non-mainstream communities, appear in these stories in metaphorical form or as plausible scenarios in a future or alternate world. Lesbianism itself was routinely described by the conservatives of the past as "impossible." The formula of "woman + woman" is thus logically connected with other phenomenon formerly considered impossible: magic, witchcraft, folk cures, scientific discoveries, alternate methods of producing offspring, space travel, communication with beings who are not human or not living in human bodies, historical accounts that have been suppressed or denied. The Heiresses of Russ series seeks to offer readers the best lesbian-themed speculative fictions stories published the prior year.
"The Highwayman Come Riding" by M. Bennardo
"Made Light" by Melissa Moorer
"Sarah’s Child" by Susan Jane Bigelow
"Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land" by Ruthanna Emrys
"Knotting Grass, Holding Ring" by Ken Liu
"Nkásht íí" by Darcie Little Badger
"Spores" by Seanan McGuire
"Ghost-Writer" by Shannon Connor Winward
"Cold Wind" by Nicola Griffith
"Real Monsters" by B.R. Sanders
"Because I Prayed This Word" by Alex Dally MacFarlane
"Tears of the Gods" by Sarah L. Byrne
"Game Fae" by Vivien Jackson
"Repair Mission" by Annabeth Leong
"Final Escape" by Stacia Seaman
"Skeletons" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
"Morrigan in the Sunglare" by Seth Dickinson
"Golden Daughter, Stone Wife" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Paperback, 300 pages
"As is not often enough the case with anthologies, there isn’t a bad story in this bunch. Jean Roberta and Steve Berman have done a marvelous job selecting and curating these wise and splendid tales. The prominent role of women-loving-women and the breadth of vision captured in these worlds are at once inspiring and enlightening. In Heiresses of Russ 2015, the non-mainstream dynamic of woman + woman becomes not only accepted and integrated but a source of real power. Joanna Russ would be proud." - Sara Rauch for Lambda Literary Foundation.
