A review by shanth
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Edition by Christie Yant
4.0
Among the new stories in this anthology, "The Case of the Passionless Bees" by Rhonda Eikamp, a cyberpunk re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes as Gearlock Holmes was my favourite. Gabriella Stalker's dystopian "In the Image of Man" about a future where everything is subsumed by a collection of Malls which house churches, schools, universities (all operated like corporate franchises with sponsors and tie-ins) is eerily close to today's reality in so many ways. And Elizabeth Porter's "A Burglary, Addressed By a Young Lady" has to rank among the most deliciously fantastic imagining of a social order so different from anything I'm used to reading.
The Maureen F. McHugh novella and Tiptree reprint were brilliant but nothing else struck me much. Quite a mixed anthology all in all, but well worth it just for the gems it contains
The Maureen F. McHugh novella and Tiptree reprint were brilliant but nothing else struck me much. Quite a mixed anthology all in all, but well worth it just for the gems it contains