Heiresses of Russ 2011- The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction

✍ Scribed by Vanderhooft, JoSelle; Berman, Steve (editor)

• Book ID: 109712118
• Publisher: Lethe Press, Inc.
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 168 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1590213955

✦ Synopsis

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,...