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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.

Table of Contents

• Dreaming the Dark - shortfiction by Athena Andreadis
• Finders - novelette by Melissa Scott
• Bad Day on Boscobel - novelette by Alexander Jablokov
• In Colors Everywhere - shortfiction by Nisi Shawl
• Mission of Greed - shortfiction by Sue Lange
• Sailing the Antarsa - shortfiction by Vandana Singh
• Landfall from the Blood Star Frontier - shortfiction by Joan Slonczewski
• This Alakie and the Death of Dima - shortfiction by Terry Boren
• The Waiting Stars - novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• The Shape of Thought - shortfiction by Ken Liu
• Under Falna's Mask - shortfiction by Alex Dally MacFarlane
• Mimesis - [Stories of the Raksura] - shortfiction by Martha Wells
• Velocity's Ghost - shortfiction by Kelly Jennings
• Exit, Interrupted - shortfiction by C. W. Johnson
• Dagger and Mask - shortfiction by Cat Rambo
• Ouroboros - shortfiction by Christine Lucas
• Cathedral - shortfiction by Jack McDevitt

Science-based wonder is the core of science fiction. Yet the genre mostly cast science as either triumph or hubris. In To Shape the Dark, editor Athena Andreadis offers readers women heroes who are doing science not-as-usual. Scientists are astrogators who never sleep; and To Shape the Dark is part of that vigil.

Table of Contents:

• Astrogators Never Sleep - short story by Athena Andreadis
• Carnivores of Can't-Go-Home - novelette by Constance Cooper
• Chlorophyll Is Thicker Than Water - novelette by M. Fenn
• Sensorium - short story by Jacqueline Koyanagi
• From the Depths - novelette by Kristin Landon
• Fieldwork - novelette by Shariann Lewitt
• Of Wind and Fire - novelette by Vandana Singh
• Crossing the Midday Gate - novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• Firstborn, Lastborn - short story by Melissa Scott
• Building for Shah Jehan - short story by Anil Menon
• The Age of Discovery - short story by C. W. Johnson
• Recursive Ice - novelette by Terry Boren
• Ward 7 - short story by Susan Lanigan
• Two Become One - novelette by Kiini Ibura Salaam
• The Pegasus Project - short story by Jack McDevitt
• The Seventh Gamer - novelette by Gwyneth Jones