This anthology showcases the most exceptional science fiction stories written by women in recent decades, from classic stars like Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree Jr. to science-fiction greats such Nancy Kress, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Karen Joy Fowler to new award-winning talents.

The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (Mammoth Books)

Literature & Fiction

MacFarlane, Alex Dally

United States

Running Press Adult

“Rich word choices and settings that blend speculative concepts with quotidian reality highlight this stellar anthology of prose and poetry.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “One of those rare long-term survivors of the small-press landscape. . . contributes mightily to the health of our genre.” —LOCUS ONLINE Assembled from the second year of the digital journal MYTHIC DELIRIUM and recast in an artfully arranged anthology, this latest offering from editors Mike and Anita Allen will introduce you to harrowing deserts and vengeful waters, to quantum mythology and edible religion, to slipstream explorations of love and identity. Publisher and editor Mike Allen writers in his introduction, “If you’re on a quest for the weird, lowercase, here is a book where you can find it. And likely The Weird as well.” This international anthology of beautiful prose and strange verse features Saira Ali, Michele Bannister, Alicia Cole, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Gwynne Garfinkle, Brady Golden, Adam Howe, John Philip Johnson, Jamie Killen, Swapna Kishore, Margo Lanagan, Geoffrey A. Landis, Nathaniel Lee, Rose Lemberg, Livia Llewellyn, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, C.S. MacCath, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Lynette Mejía, Virginia M. Mohlere, Sunny Moraine, Kristine Ong Muslim, Dominik Parisien, Jessy Randall, Wendy Rathbone, Sonya Taaffe, Shveta Thakrar, Natalia Theodoridou, Sheree Renée Thomas and Jane Yolen. Cover art by Hugo Award winner Galen Dara.

Mythic Delirium: Volume Two: an international anthology of prose and verse

Lanagan, Margo

Llewellyn, Livia

Thomas, Sheree Renée

Gailey, Jeannine Hall

Thakrar, Shveta

Lupescu, Valya Dudycz

Taaffe, Sonya

Howe, Adam

Muslim, Kristine Ong

Rathbone, Wendy

Moraine, Sunny

Landis, Geoffrey A.

YOLEN, JANE

MacCath, C.S.

Kishore, Swapna

Mohlere, Virginia M.

Parisien, Dominik

Johnson, John Philip

Lynette Mejia

Mythic Delirium Books

• 2017 World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Anthology • Contains "The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me" by Rachael K. Jones, 2017 World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Short Fiction • Contains "Sabbath Wine" by Barbara Krasnoff, 2016 Nebula Award finalist for Best Short Story • 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best Anthology “Allen’s strange and lovely fifth genre-melding fantasy anthology selects 20 new short stories of unusual variety, texture, compassion, and perception . . . All the stories afford thought-provoking glimpses into alternative realities that linger, sparking unconventional thoughts, long after they are first encountered.” —Publisher Weekly, starred review 
“The arrangement is superb. This anthology of 20 stories can resemble a symphony of themes and variations in a wide range of keys, or a tapestry whose elements form patterns of imagery and meaning that shift and offer new insights throughout the book.” —Locus 
The Clockwork Phoenix anthologies offer homes to “well-written stories occupying multiple subgenres, usually in the same story, often ambiguously,” as Locus Magazine once put it. 
The ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series of fantasy anthologies returns for a fifth incarnation, triumphantly risen from the ashes after another successful Kickstarter campaign. This is the largest installment yet, holding twenty new tales of beauty and strangeness. Each story leads you into unmapped territory, there to find shock and delight. 
With fiction from Jason Kimble, Rachael K. Jones, Patricia Russo, Marie Brennan, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Rob Cameron, A. C. Wise, Gray Rinehart, Sam Fleming, Sunil Patel, C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez, Holly Heisey, Barbara Krasnoff, Sonya Taaffe, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Shveta Thakrar, Cassandra Khaw, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Rich Larson, and Beth Cato. 
Table of Contents 
<li> “The Wind at His Back” by Jason Kimble </li>
<li> “The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me” by Rachael K. Jones </li>
<li> “The Perfect Happy Family” by Patricia Russo </li>
<li> “The Mirror-City” by Marie Brennan </li>
<li> “The Finch’s Wedding and the Hive That Sings” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew </li>
<li> “Squeeze” by Rob Cameron </li>
<li> “A Guide to Birds by Song (After Death)” by A.C. Wise </li>
<li> “The Sorcerer of Etah” by Gray Rinehart </li>
<li> “The Prime Importance of a Happy Number” by Sam Fleming </li>
<li> “Social Visiting” by Sunil Patel </li>
<li> “The Book of May” by C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez </li>
<li> “The Tiger’s Silent Roar” by Holly Heisey </li>
<li> “Sabbath Wine” by Barbara Krasnoff </li>
<li> “The Trinitite Golem” by Sonya Taaffe </li>
<li> “Two Bright Venuses” by Alex Dally MacFarlane </li>
<li> “By Thread of Night and Starlight Needle” by Shveta Thakrar </li>
<li> “The Games We Play” by Cassandra Khaw </li>
<li> “The Road, and the Valley, and the Beasts” by Keffy R.M. Kehrli </li>
<li> “Innumerable Glimmering Lights” by Rich Larson </li>
<li> “The Souls of Horses” by Beth Cato</li>

Clockwork Phoenix 5

Brennan, Marie

Sriduangkaew, Benjanun

Cato, Beth

Krasnoff, Barbara

Hernández, Carlos

Cooney, C.S.E.

Wise, A.C.

Kimble, Jason

This anthology showcases the most exceptional science fiction stories written by women in recent decades, from classic stars like Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree Jr. to science-fiction greats such Nancy Kress, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Karen Joy Fowler to new award-winning talents.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Robinson

Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction

“One of the most compelling aspects of speculative fiction is its ability to fulfill otherwise unattainable desires—whether one wants to create a magical society or travel through time, visit an alien civilization or remake history. It also satisfies more mundane reader desires, the ones it would not seem so hard to fulfill. To call a few of these out, I'll willingly step on this mine: the explosion of ‘should.’ It should not be easier to find a zombie apocalypse than it is to find a lesbian protagonist in the aisles of your local bookstore. Falling for werewolves and shape shifters should not be more accepted than a transgendered love affair; marginalized people really will still exist in the future; more folks should know that, and more so create like they know it. Someone then must step into the gap, or to be more accurate the gaping holes in the collective visions of our possibilities as human beings. In these pages, someone has. Seventeen someones to be exact.” —from the Introduction by Tenea D. Johnson

LGBTQ+ Books

Lo, Malinda

Rios, Julia

Johnson, Tenea D.

Humphrey, Claire

Gomez, Jewelle

Vaughn,Carrie

Merrow, J L

Mandelo, Brit

Lethe Press

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