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Best:
Heather Clitheroe - Cuts Both Ways
N.K. Jemisin - Walking Awake
Maria Dahvana Headley - Dim Sun
Tananarive Due - Like Daughter
Maureen F. McHugh - The Cost to Be Wise

62. Georgina Kamsika - Women Who Are More Than Strong, 2 stars. Wants female characters.
63. Cheryl Morgan - A Science-Fictional Woman, 3 stars. People are afraid of progress.
64. Pat Murphy - Your Future is Out of Date, 4 stars. Heinlein broke her heart.
65. E. Catherine Tobler - Stray Outside the Lines, 2 stars. Men are easily threatened.
66. Seanan McGuire - My Love Can Destroy, 2 stars. Little girls are brutal.

57. Sylvia Spruck Wrigley - I Wanted to be the First Woman on the Moon, 2 stars. Title says it all.
58. Helena Bell - Never Think of Yourself as Less, 3 stars. Mom shared love of sci-fi.
59. Jude Griffin - An ABC of Kickass, 1 star. An alphabetical list.
60. Anaea Lay - Stocking Stuffers, 3 stars. Got a life changing book at the right time.
61. Brooke Bolander - Breaching the Gap, 3 stars. Life changing TV show.

53. DeAnna Knippling - Where Are My SF Books?, 3 stars. Sci-fi not little girl friendly.
54. Liz Argall - Reading the Library Alphabetically, 2 stars. Found sci-fi little girl friendly.
55. Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam - Stepping Through a Portal, 3 stars. Didn't know women wrote sci-fi until adulthood.
56. Stina Leicht - The Wendybird, 2 stars. Take women seriously.

48. O.J. Cade - Stomp All Over That, 1 star. Scientists wear shoes.
49. Kristi Charish - For the Trailblazers, 2 stars. Real scientist has lived charmed life.
50. Juliette Wade - Women are the Future of Science Fiction, 2 stars. The future is female.
51. Kameron Hurley - We Have Always Fought, 2 stars. Women wear many hats.
52. Kat Howard - Writing Stories, Wrinkling Time, 1 star. First sci-fi was female heavy.

44. Amy Sterling Casil - Writing Among the Beginning of Women, 2 stars. Another getting not genre enough complaints.
45. Nancy Jane Moore - Toward a Better Future, 2 stars. Women should submit more stories?
46. Sandra Wickham - We Are the Army of Women Destroying SF, 2 stars. Is a tomboy.
47. Gail Marsella - Read SF and You've Got a Posse, 3 stars. Older lady is not discouraged.

40. Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff - Science Fiction: You're Doin' It Wrong, 2 stars. People complain that her work isn't genre enough.
41. Marissa Lingen - Join Us in the Future, 3 stars. Loves science, wants everyone to enjoy books.
42. Sheila Finch - Are We There Yet?, 3 stars. People doubt research done by women.
43. Anne Charnock - Not a Spaceship, Robot, or Zombie in Sight, 2 stars. Had a hard time getting published.

36. Tracie Welser - The Status Quo Cannot Hold, 1 star. Quoting other people.
37. Stina Leicht - How to Engineer a Self-Rescuing Princess, 1 star. Her dad sucked, she likes Star Trek, book recommendations. Okay.
38. Nisi Shawl - Screaming Together: Making Women's Voices Heard, 2 stars. Give women your money, rah rah.
39. Rachel Swirsky - We are the Fifty Percent, 2 stars. People complain when women are featured.

33. Pat Murphy - Illusion, Expectation, and World Domination through Bake Sales, 3 stars. Gender bias, origins of Tiptree award.
34. Mary Robinette Kowal - Women Remember, 3 stars. Authors discuss how things have changed since they started writing.
35. Jennifer Willis - Kelly Sue DeConnick, 2 stars. Interview about comic books.

Q&A Author/Artist Spotlights, 3 stars. Standard interview questions.
Seanan McGuire
Kris Millering
Heather Clitheroe
N.K. Jemisin
Rhonda Eikamp
Gabriella Stalker
Charlie Jane Anders
Maria Dahvana Headley
Amal El-Mohtar
Elizabeth Porter Birdsall
K.C. Norton
Tananarive Due
Maria Romasco Moore
Eleanor Arnason
Maureen McHugh
Galen Dara
Li Grabenstetter
Hillary Pearlman
Elizabeth Leggett
Christine Mitzuk

29. Effie Seiberg - Ro-Sham-Bot, 3 stars. Skimming through robot memories.
30. Samantha Murray - Everything That Has Already Been Said, 2 stars. Robot can only speak unique sentences.
31. Katherine Crighton - The Lies We Tell Our Children, 3 stars. Little girls learn how big the universe is.
32. Excerpt: Jane Lindskold - Artemis Awakening, 2 stars. Hunk crashes ship, babe with big cat rescues him.

24. Anaid Perez - Emoticon, 1 star. Tweet length robot to cop punchline.
25. Ellen Denham - The Mouths, 2 stars. Fat useless creatures consume vs. create.
26. Kim Winternheimer - M1A, 3 stars. Little girl has a spare parts sister.
27. Holly Schofield - Standard Deviant, 2 stars. Punk girl is recruited to save earth.
28. Cathy Humble - Getting on in Years, 3 stars. Immortal hires publicist to make people love him.

21. Sarah Pinsker - The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced, 3 stars. Care home for people unstuck in time.
22. Vanessa Torline - #TrainFightTuesday, 3 stars. Live tweeting a hero/villain encounter.
23. Rhiannon Rasmussen - The Hymn of Ordeal, No. 23, 2 stars. Brother volunteers to become modified ship/soldier to win the war.

17. Carrie Vaughn - Salvage, 3 stars. Crew investigate death of another ship.
18. Emily Fox - A Guide to Grief, 3 stars. Changing time to prevent personal tragedy.
19. Tina Connolly - See DANGEROUS EARTH-POSSIBLES!, 2 stars. Lonely kid plays a video game.
20. Marina J. Lostetter - A Debt Repaid, 3 stars. Gambler chooses to share body to continue gambling.

13. Maria Romasco Moore - The Great Loneliness, 3 stars. Mostly empty seed ship finds signs of life.
14. James Tiptree Jr. - Love is the Plan the Plan is Death, 3 stars. [2016]
15. Eleanor Arnason - Knapsack Poems, 2 stars. Traveling poet picks up a stray kid.
16. Maureen F. McHugh - The Cost to Be Wise, 5 stars. Off world student visitor arrives during a violent winter.

10. Elizabeth Porter Birdsall - A Burglary, Addressed By A Young Lady, 3 stars. Debutante's first choice is vetoed in a favor of a wealthier target.
11. K.C. Norton - Canth, 3 stars. Captain hires a crew to track down her lost ship.
12. Tananarive Due - Like Daughter, 4 stars. Godmother is summoned to care for child after old friend's marriage falls apart.

07. Charlie Jane Anders - The Unfathomable Sisterhood of Ick, 2 stars. Recently dumped woman is betrayed by manipulative best friend.
08. Maria Dahvana Headley - Dim Sun, 4 stars. Temperamental critic invites friend out to eat, ex-wife invites herself.
09. Amal El-Mohtar - The Lonely Sea in the Sky, 3 stars. Diamond-based teleportation research leads to obsession.

04. N.K. Jemisin - Walking Awake, 4 stars. Caregiver for host children is visited by dead child in dreams.
05. Rhonda Eikamp - The Case of the Passionless Bees, 3 stars. Steampunk Sherlock wants to be a real boy.
06. Gabriella Stalker - In the Image of Man, 2 stars. Everyone lives in malls.

01. Seanan McGuire - Each to Each, 2 stars. Genetically modified all female mercrew of a submarine.
02. Kris Millering - A Word Shaped Like Bones, 3 stars. Artist shares her alien art exchange mission with a decomposing corpse.
03. Heather Clitheroe - Cuts Both Ways, 4 stars. Man suffers flashbacks of a terrorist attack while spending the holidays back home.

Wiki: "No, it had to be Totilas, he was the best, she was fixated on using him."

Wiki: "He quoted a Latin poem at Aamir when they met in our office."

Wiki: "The closed road follows alongside the ruins of the St. Francis Dam, which collapsed in the middle of one night in March 1928, sending giant chunks of cement and billions of gallons of water rushing through the valley..."

St. Francis Dam > California Water Wars

Book: "I read the Tim O’Brien book that was set on the lake in high school but didn’t like it very much."

Wiki: "Tara Moore celebrates Christmas in central Pennsylvania where the whip-bearing, fur-clad Belsnickle still terrifies the children who know where to find him."

Wiki: "...the comfortable thrill of the ghost story circle as well as the boar’s head and the wassail bowl."

Wassailing > Apple Tree Man > Tibb's Eve

Too depressing for the end of the year.

04. The Antique Dealer's Death, 3 stars. Nosey neighbor insinuates himself into the investigation of a crime at Maud's.
05. An Elderly Lady is Faced with a Difficult Dilemma, 3 stars. Maud's side of the story, greedy antique dealer put his hands on her things.

01. An Elderly Lady Has Accommodation Problems, 4 stars. Celebrity neighbor takes inordinate interest in Maud's spacious apartment.
02. An Elderly Lady on Her Travels, 4 stars. Maud is shocked by the wedding announcement of two people from her past.
03. An Elderly Lady Seeks Peace at Christmastime, 4 stars. Noisy upstairs neighbors ruin Maud's holiday for the last time.

Wiki: "She took a couple of special graveside lanterns and a box of matches out of the bag in the wheeled walker’s wire basket."

Word: "From the first it was evident that though the habiliments of woe still decked her, she had cast off the numb misery of the bereavement."

1. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion
2. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings