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FROM THE EDITORS

Christie Yant, Rachel Swirsky, Wendy N. Wagner, Robyn Lupo, and Gabrielle de Cuir

Editorial, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction!

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES — edited by Christie Yant

Each to Each by Seanan McGuire

A Word Shaped Like Bones by Kris Millering

Cuts Both Ways by Heather Clitheroe

Walking Awake by N.K. Jemisin

The Case of the Passionless Bees by Rhonda Eikamp

In the Image of Man by Gabriella Stalker

The Unfathomable Sisterhood of Ick by Charlie Jane Anders

Dim Sun by Maria Dahvana Headley

The Lonely Sea in the Sky by Amal El-Mohtar

A Burglary, Addressed By a Young Lady by Elizabeth Porter Birdsall

Canth by K.C. Norton

REPRINTS — selected by Rachel Swirsky

Like Daughter by Tananarive Due

Love is the Plan the Plan is Death by James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)

The Great Loneliness by Maria Romasco Moore

Knapsack Poems by Eleanor Arnason

The Cost to Be Wise by Maureen F. McHugh (novella)

ORIGINAL FLASH FICTION — edited by Robyn Lupo

Salvage by Carrie Vaughn

A Guide to Grief by Emily Fox

See DANGEROUS EARTH-POSSIBLES! by Tina Connolly

A Debt Repaid by Marina J. Lostetter

The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced by Sarah Pinsker

#TrainFightTuesday by Vanessa Torline

The Hymn of Ordeal, No. 23 by Rhiannon Rasmussen

Emoticon by Anaid Perez

The Mouths by Ellen Denham

M1A by Kim Winternheimer

Standard Deviant by Holly Schofield

Getting on in Years by Cathy Humble

Ro-Sham-Bot by Effie Seiberg

Everything That Has Already Been Said by Samantha Murray

The Lies We Tell Our Children by Katherine Crighton

BONUS STORY, EXCLUSIVE TO LIMITED EDITION

(Kickstarter Backers/Subscribers only)

They Tell Me There Will Be No Pain by Rachael Acks

NOVEL EXCERPT

Artemis Awakening by Jane Lindskold

NONFICTION — edited by Wendy N. Wagner

Artists Showcase by Galen Dara

Illusion, Expectation, and World Domination Through Bake Sales by Pat Murphy

Women Remember: A Roundtable Interview by Mary Robinette Kowal

Interview: Kelly Sue DeConnick by Jennifer Willis

How to Engineer a Self-Rescuing Princess by Stina Leicht

The Status Quo Cannot Hold by Tracie Welser

Screaming Together: Making Women’s Voices Heard by Nisi Shawl

PERSONAL ESSAYS — edited by Wendy N. Wagner

(Archived at Kickstarter.com except where noted)

We are the Fifty Percent by Rachel Swirsky

Science Fiction: You’re Doin’ It Wrong by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

Join Us in the Future by Marissa Lingen

Are We There Yet? by Sheila Finch

Not a Spaceship, Robot, or Zombie in Sight by Anne Charnock

Writing Among the Beginning of Women by Amy Sterling Casil

Toward a Better Future by Nancy Jane Moore

We Are the Army of Women Destroying SF by Sandra Wickham

Read SF and You’ve Got a Posse by Gail Marsella

Stomp All Over That by O. J. Cade

For the Trailblazers by Kristi Charish

Women are the Future of Science Fiction by Juliette Wade

We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle, and Slaves Narrative by Kameron Hurley (Reprint, archived at A Dribble of Ink)

Writing Stories, Wrinkling Time by Kat Howard

Where Are My SF Books? by DeAnna Knippling

Reading the Library Alphabetically by Liz Argall

Stepping Through a Portal by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

The Wendybird by Stina Leicht

I Wanted to be the First Woman on the Moon by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

Never Think of Yourself as Less by Helena Bell

An ABC of Kickass, or a Partial Exorcism of my TBR/TRBA* Pile by Jude Griffin

Stocking Stuffers by Anaea Lay

Breaching the Gap by Brooke Bolander

Women Who Are More Than Strong by Georgina Kamsika

A Science-Fictional Woman by Cheryl Morgan

Your Future is Out of Date by Pat Murphy

Stray Outside the Lines by E. Catherine Tobler

My Love Can Destroy by Seanan McGuire

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS — edited by Jude Griffin

With contributors Laurel Amberdine, Lee Hallison, and Sandra Odell

Seanan McGuire

Kris Millering

Heather Clitheroe

N.K. Jemisin

Rhonda Eikamp

Tananarive Due

Gabriella Stalker

Charlie Jane Anders

Maria Dahvana Headley

Amal El-Mohtar

Elizabeth Porter Birdsall

K.C. Norton

Eleanor Arnason

Maria Romasco Moore

Maureen McHugh

ILLUSTRATORS — art direction by Galen Dara

Li Grabbenstetter (“A Word Shaped Like Bones,” “Each to Each,” and “Love is the Plan the Plan is Death”)

Elizabeth Leggett (“Cuts Both Ways,” “Salvage,” and “Like Daughter”)

Hillary Pearlman (“Walking Awake”)

Christine Mitzuk (“The Case of the Passionless Bees”)

Galen Dara (cover artist)

PODCASTS — produced by Gabrielle de Cuir

(Click “Listen” in top right corner of the story’s page to download or launch player)

Each to Each by Seanan McGuire, read by Janis Ian

A Word Shaped Like Bones by Kris Millering, read by Gabrielle de Cuir

Cuts Both Ways by Heather Clitheroe, read by Grover Gardner

Walking Awake by N.K. Jemisin, read by Bahni Turpin

The Case of the Passionless Bees by Rhonda Eikamp, read by Jonathan L. Howard

Salvage by Carrie Vaughn, read by Susan Hanfield

Like Daughter by Tananarive Due, read by Emily Rankin

Love is the Plan the Plan is Death by James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon), read by Stefan Rudnicki

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