An impressive collection of feminist speculative fiction including not only those voices that one would expect (Butler, Le Guin, Tiptree, etc.) but a host of other storytellers who are seldom heard. Thought-provoking and intriguing across the board. ( )

Stories, all well worth reading. ( )

Ask yourself. If I read this will I want to buy more books?

My favorite stories: The Forbidden Words of Margaret A. (Duchamp), The Glass Bottle Trick (Hopkinson), The Screwfly Solution (Tiptree), The Fall River Axe Murders (Carter), and When It Changed (Russ). ( )

This isn't my normal reading matter, but I really, really wanted to read Ursula LeGuin's Sur, and this seemed the easiest way to get it. Was that story worth buying the book? Yes. Would the book have been worth buying without Sur? Probably, but I would probably not have run into it.

No, I didn't like all the stories. There was one I didn't finish, and another I shouldn't have. A few that left me without any real feeling. And several that I didn't enjoy. But most of the stories, whether or not I enjoyed reading them, were worth reading, worth thinking about. ( )