Feral Astrogators Series by Athena Andreadis, Aliette de Bodard, Terry Boren, Susan Lanigan, M. Fenn, Constance Cooper, C.W. Johnson, Shariann Lewitt, Melissa Scott, Vandana Singh, Gwyneth Jones, Kristin Landon, Jacqueline Koyanagi, Anil Menon, Jack McDevitt, Kiini Ibura Salaam, Kay T. Holt, Joan Slonczewski, Ken Liu, Nisi Shawl, Alexander Jablokov, Sue Lange, Alex Dally McFarlane, Martha Wells, Kelly Jennings, Cat Rambo, Christine Lucas

Women may hold up more than half the sky on earth, but it has been different in heaven: science fiction still is very much a preserve of male protagonists, mostly performing by-the-numbers quests. In The Other Half of the Sky, editor Athena Andreadis offers readers heroes who happen to be women, doing whatever they would do in universes where they’re fully human.

Science-based wonder is the core of science fiction. Yet the genre mostly cast science as either triumph or hubris. In To Shape the Dark, editor Athena Andreadis offers readers women heroes who are doing science not-as-usual. Scientists are astrogators who never sleep; and To Shape the Dark is part of that vigil.