The Other Half of the Sky
The Other Half of the Sky
Novelette
Finders
Ebook
Trade pb
460 pages
Candlemark & Gleam
04/21/2013
Series:
Lastborn
Short fiction
Series number:
short story
"Finders" is the novelette that eventually became the first few chapters of the novel of the same name. It's a tight, taut story about a salvage operation that goes terribly wrong. "Finders" was also chosen fo Year's Best SF 31 in 2014.
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.