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Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue

by Christie Yant (editor)

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Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue by Christie Yant (editor) appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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