Short fiction has substantially less room to accomplish these objectives, and “The Waiting Stars” manages it. In my experience, good science fiction either makes you think or makes you feel, and uncommonly it does both. Upon reading De Bodard’s story - in which the two protagonists are in positions that couldn’t be more different, as one is unhappily but comfortably institutionalized and the other is evading government operatives - it is my opinion that it certainly deserves winning all three of those awards. It includes Aliette de Bodard’s “The Waiting Stars,” which won this year’s Nebula Award for best novelette and was also nominated for the Hugo and Locus Awards. Within it you’ll find familiar names such as Joan Slonczewski, Melissa Scott, and Ken Liu, in addition to in all likelihood some new-to-you authors whose writing it is an immense pleasure to become acquainted with. Holt its sixteen stories all feature female protagonists. The Other Half of the Sky is a 2013 science fiction anthology edited by Athena Andreadis and Kay T.
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