Other Half of the Sky

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Athena Andreadis, Kay Holt: Other Half of the Sky (2013, Candlemark & Gleam)

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Published Oct. 14, 2013 by Candlemark & Gleam.

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978-1-936460-43-4
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4 stars (1 review)

Women may hold up more than half the sky on earth, but it has been different in heaven: science fiction still is very much a preserve of male protagonists, mostly performing by-the-numbers quests.

In The Other Half of the Sky, editor Athena Andreadis offers readers heroes who happen to be women, doing whatever they would do in universes where they’re fully human: starship captains, planet rulers, explorers, scientists, artists, engineers, craftspeople, pirates, rogues…

As one of the women in Tiptree’s “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” says: “We sing a lot. Adventure songs, work songs, mothering songs, mood songs, trouble songs, joke songs, love songs – everything.” Everything.

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4 stars

I guess the premise and title are quite cis-sexist, so that's a minus. For the rest, I liked most of the stories, some were really excellent. Only "This Alakie and Death of Dima" wasn't for my taste as the language was too complicated and constructed to follow the storyline, even if I liked the idea of plant-based beings a lot. If you like sci-fi and want to get to know some new authors, take a look at this fine collection of short stories. My favourites were "The Shape of tought" by Ken Liu and "Landfall from the blood star frontier" by Joan Slonczewski.

Subjects

  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • Fiction, general