Eggp’s Reviews > Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 49, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! > Status Update

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 Pat Murphy - Your Future is Out of Date, 4 stars.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.

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.