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A review by declaired
Warrior Women by Nancy Kress, Elizabeth Bear, Seanan McGuire
4.0
Like all short story collections that I write reviews for, this review will be benignly neglectful; I read a story a day around April-ish, during which I had defined opinions about things, and then I forgot about it and finished up the last two stories today.
It is quite a collection! Splits between some classic fantasy (the first story is from like, 1970, which makes it Extremely Classic Fantasy; I liked it more from an archaeological point of view); to modern historical (hi Carrie Vaughn's flying WW2 girls); and Sci Fi and Other, I believe. They all have catchier titles, of course. There's quite a lot to tickle the fancy of a girl who likes girls with swords (and various other weapons); but some fights are best won with games (Yoon Ha Lee's contribution).
I would say there were more stories here that I liked than that I didn't; I do think I skipped 90% of the "modern warfare" but that's probably mostly a personal preference.
It is quite a collection! Splits between some classic fantasy (the first story is from like, 1970, which makes it Extremely Classic Fantasy; I liked it more from an archaeological point of view); to modern historical (hi Carrie Vaughn's flying WW2 girls); and Sci Fi and Other, I believe. They all have catchier titles, of course. There's quite a lot to tickle the fancy of a girl who likes girls with swords (and various other weapons); but some fights are best won with games (Yoon Ha Lee's contribution).
I would say there were more stories here that I liked than that I didn't; I do think I skipped 90% of the "modern warfare" but that's probably mostly a personal preference.