Named one of the 2013 Over the Rainbow Project book list, sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association!
Welcome to a new annual anthology created in honor of the late Joanna Russ, American writer, academic, and feminist whose work shone brightly in the male-dominated field of speculative fiction of the latter part of the twentieth century.
Heiresses of Russ offers readers in one volume the best lesbian-themed tales of the fantastical and otherworldly published during the prior year. Editors JoSelle Vanderhooft and Steve Berman read countless books, periodicals, and webzines to collect a range of tales--from new voices as well as award-winning authors--that celebrate the spirit of Russ's fiction: stories of sorceresses and spectral women, lost daughters and sisters of myth. The transformative power of the written word becomes magic and tests the boundaries of gender, identity, and a woman's dreams.
Stories by Georgina Bruce, Jewelle Gomez, Michelle Labbé, Steve Berman, Rachel Swirsky, Ellen Kushner, Zen Cho, Csilla Kleinheincz, Catherine Lundoff, Nora Olsen, N. K. Jemisin
Table of Contetns:
- Introduction - (2011) - essay by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Ghost of a Horse Under a Chandelier - (2010) - shortstory by Georgina Bruce
- Storyville 1910 - (2011) - shortfiction by Jewelle Gomez
- Her Heart Would Surely Break in Two - (2010) - shortfiction by Michelle Labbé
- Black Eyed Susan - (2010) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
- Thimbleriggery and Fledglings - (2010) - shortfiction by Steve Berman
- The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window - (2010) - novella by Rachel Swirsky
- The Children of Cadmus - (2010) - shortfiction by Ellen Kushner
- The Guest - (2010) - shortfiction by Zen Cho
- Rabbits - (2010) - shortfiction by Csilla Kleinheincz
- The Egyptian Cat - (2010) - novelette by Catherine Lundoff
- World War III Doesn't Last Long - (2010) - shortfiction by Nora Olsen
- The Effluent Engine - (2011) - shortfiction by N. K. Jemisin