We’re incredibly pleased to announce the lineup for The Other Half of the Sky, a masterful science fiction anthology that gives voice and life to women of the future.

Check out editor Athena Andreadis’s blog post for a teaser of each story, by such powerhouse storytellers as Nisi Shawl, Joan Slonczewski, Aliette de Bodard, and Ken Liu.

Truly, this is an anthology you are NOT going to want to miss!

Here’s the table of contents…if you want to read the opening lines of each story, click on the widget below:

The Other Half of the Sky, edited by Athena Andreadis and Kay Holt
(coming in Spring 2013 from Candlemark & Gleam)

Melissa Scott, Finders
Alexander Jablokov, Bad Day on Boscobel
Nisi Shawl, In Colors Everywhere
Sue Lange, Mission of Greed
Vandana Singh, Sailing the Antarsa
Joan Slonczewski, Landfall
Terry Boren, This Alakie and the Death of Dima
Aliette de Bodard, The Waiting Stars
Ken Liu, The Shape of Thought
Alex Dally MacFarlane, Under Falna’s Mask
Martha Wells, Mimesis
Kelly Jennings, Velocity’s Ghost
C. W. Johnson, Exit, Interrupted
Cat Rambo, Dagger and Mask
Christine Lucas, Ouroboros
Jack McDevitt, Cathedral

And if you’d like to read more about where the idea for the anthology came from, and about its highly dedicated, creative editor and the process behind putting it together, check out these great interviews with Athena:

SFSignal interview

World SF interview