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A review by dansumption
Women Invent the Future: A Science Fiction Anthology by Becky Chambers, Walidah Imarisha, Liz Williams, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Madeline Ashby, Cassandra Khaw, Anne Charnock, Molly Flatt
5.0
I loved this short anthology of stories (and one poem) by women authors. As science fiction's artefacts, technologies, and ways of perceiving the future start to leak into our present—from Star Trek's communicators to the interfaces used in The Minority Report, from mass surveillance of China's citizens to attempts to colonise Mars—this collection aims to bring womens' imaginings of the future to this so-far almost exclusively male canon.
It is far more than tokenism though. The stories are some of the best Sci-Fi I have read recently. They all differ greatly from one-another, in setting, style and vision. My favourite of the lot is Cassandra Khaw's There Are Wolves In These Woods, which envisages an illegal, neurally implanted, women-only social network, which allows women to keep one another warned about and protected from potential predators.
The book is available as a free download from http://doteveryone.org.uk/ and it's well worth anyone's time to download and read it.
It is far more than tokenism though. The stories are some of the best Sci-Fi I have read recently. They all differ greatly from one-another, in setting, style and vision. My favourite of the lot is Cassandra Khaw's There Are Wolves In These Woods, which envisages an illegal, neurally implanted, women-only social network, which allows women to keep one another warned about and protected from potential predators.
The book is available as a free download from http://doteveryone.org.uk/ and it's well worth anyone's time to download and read it.