I started editing the FSF Wiki page on women and works eligible for 2009 awards. It’s quite short at the moment, and mostly consists of things I copied from the 2008 page, so there’s room for additions and improvements.

Anyone can edit a page and I encourage anyone who is interested in SF/H/F to take a look at the wiki and consider contributing. As with many FSF projects, it depends on the community to work.

Here they are, the last of the online short stories by women of 2007. If you’re looking for a fun, quick read, Hobgoblin Crush is a good place to start. And for anyone who is, or was, a NYC dweller, The You Train by N.K. Jemison will bring up a lot of those surreal memories of waiting in subway stations at 4 a.m. wondering what, if any, train will come. Because everyone who ever lived there has those memories.

What stories are you rooting for during this awards season?

Jasmine

Clarkesworld

• Curse by Samantha Henderson
• The Buried Years by Loreen Heneghan
• Threads of Red and White by Lisa Mantchev

Strange Horizons

• The You Train by N.K. Jemison

Serendipity

• Here Be Monsters by Lynn Bartels

Coyote Wild

• The Ladies by Elizabeth Bear
• And Now Abideth These Three by Sherwood Smith
• Marsdog by Beth Bernobich
• The Heart of Winter by Emily M. Z. Carlyle
• Lighthouse at the Edge of the Universe by C. A. Casey
• Hobgoblin Crush by Maria Deira

Fantasy Magazine

• Time to Say Goodnight by Caroline M. Yoachim
• As Soon As Summer by Amber Van Dyk
• The Promise by Nicole Kornher-Stace
• Offerings by Leslie Claire Walker
• Firing the Dead by Celia Marsh

Lone Star Stories

• Dragon Hunt by Sarah Prineas
• A Soul Cake by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Angels of a Desert Heaven by Marguerite Reed

Jim Baen’s Universe

• Laws of Survival by Nancy Kress
• Darwin’s Suitcase by Elizabeth Malartre

It’s December already? I’m still not used to California weather. My brain only registers winter when it sees snow. Unfortunately because of ensuing holiday craziness, I didn’t get to actually read a lot of the fiction this time around. I’m still trying to catch up. Luckily it seems that any magazine that publishes on anything less than a monthly basis times it so they don’t put out a new issue in November–either that or they make sure they don’t have any female writers in their ranks this time of year.

Once again Strange Horizons has one of the best ratios–going 4 for 4 last month.

-Jasmine

Clarkesworld

• Acid and Stoned Reindeer by Rebecca Ore

Strange Horizons

• Bears by Leah Bobet
• Ghosts and Simulations by Ruthanna Emrys
• Goat Eschatologies byMargaret Ronald
• Airport Shoes by Ursula Pflug

Fantasy

• Shedding Her Own Skin by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Swan by Eilis O’Neal

Subterranean Online

• In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Flurb

• Mountain Memory by Penelope Thomas
• Anxiety Branson, Social Security Hustler by Charlie Anders

Hub

• The Flag Game by Marianne de Pierrres

InterGalactic Medicine Show - Issue #6 (which was actually October…oops!)

• The Towering Monarch of His Mighty Race by Cat Rambo
• A Spear through the Heart by Cherith Baldry

Serendipity

• The Little Tailor by Stephanie Burgis
• The River Stone Heart of Maria Dela Rosa by Kate Aton-Osias

Cafe Irreal

• Uncovering the Walkways by Vanessa Gebbie
• Tiny Red Heart and Dog Daze by Tania Hershman

So here’s the deal: As a member of the Pyr Street Team, I wanted to do a little something extra aside from just posting book reviews in my blog. I came up with the fun (for me) idea of doing a year-end discussion of the imprint in general, and then came up with the really silly idea of doing superlatives for the 2007 releases. But the CROWNING idea was coming up with a Pyr Book Giveaway.

If you’ve been interested AT ALL in ANY of the Pyr books I’ve reviewed in my journal (need a refresher? Just click here), now’s your chance to win one. Why bring it up? There’s fifteen titles total that I’ve read/reviewed, and of those fifteen, five are written by women (this doesn’t include the Fast Forward anthology, which has 9/21 women writers in it), and of those five, three books (Kenyon’s Bright of the Sky, Latner’s Hurricane Moon, and Robson’s Selling Out) were published in 2007. So was the anthology, if you’re interested in nominating short stories. Interested? For details on how to enter, just go here. Good luck to all who enter, and I do hope there’s a lot of you, simply because if this goes well, I might be able to do something similar in my blog in the future! Happy Reading!

Shara Saunsaucie

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out when Coyote Wild is published. I included it in my September roundup, though it may not have been published until October. Not that such distinctions matter so much. Just go read the stories.

The Amy Sisson story in Strange Horizons is, I think, one of my favorites of the year.

As always, let me know if I missed anything, and feel free to tell me what your favorites were in comments. I even gave you some bonus stories from the summer that I missed last time around.

Jasmine

Strange Horizons

• All Kinds of Reasons by Katherine Maclaine
• Minghun: Unlikely Patron Saints, No. 5 by Amy Sisson

Clarkesworld Magazine

• The Ape’s Wife by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Lost Soul by M P Ericson

Coyote Wild

• Elephants Never Forget by Jennifer Brinn
• Mirror, Mirror by Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy
• Nightmare at the Nursing Home by Jenny Schwartz
• Sea Child by Aliette de Bodard
• Toxicity by Erica Naone
• Uluru by Jennifer Linnaea

Ideomancer

• What Happens Next by Jude-Marie Green
• Winner by Kyri Freeman

Serendipity

• In The Clouds by Aliya Whiteley

Subterreanean

• The Four Hundred Thousand by Livia Llewellyn

EscapePod

• End Game by Nancy Kress (first appeared in Asimov’s, 04/2007)

The Town Drunk - includes Summer misses

• A Bouquet at Twilight by Lisa Mantchev
• Answer Me This by Casey Fiesler
• What Does it Profit A Man by Rebecca Day
• Dinner Made Willing by Vylar Kaftan

Oops! Summer Stories I missed:

Aberrant Dreams – July 2007

• Living with a Shoulder Monster by Eugie Foster

Lone Star Stories

• The Ballad of the Sinister Mr. Mouth by Catherynne M. Valente
• Love, &c.–From 506 JB by Toiya Kristen Finley
• Under the Beansidhe’s Pillow by Sarah Monette
• Tradition by Jo Walton
• Things with the Same Name by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Continuing with the changes here at the bookswap blog. First, we switched the theme (in case you hadn’t noticed). Hopefully this one will be more reader-friendly. Bigger text! Fewer sidebars! More chocolate! …Okay, maybe not that last one.

Next up: Book Reviews. In addition to the short fiction reviews/online fiction roundups our wonderful blog editor will post, I’ve also invited some folks to post reviews of books here. You’ll see those mostly toward the middle and end of the month. If you see a book/novel that interests you, drop by the forum and see if anyone is swapping that title. If not, you can always request it (or buy it yourself and then swap it with us!).

Finally: Don’t forget to join the swap on the forum. I’ll probably keep saying this until everyone everywhere has joined. I’m like an NPR pledge drive but much, much worse

Tempest

Welcome to the tentative beginnings of what I hope will be a great experiment in community empowerment. I hope it will lead to more recognition of SF written by women and more balanced award ballots next year and in years to come.

To start, please read our About post, if you haven’t already and join the LibraryThing group. Also check out our “How to Help” page to get even more involved. If you’re a female SF author or publish female SF authors, read about how to get your book circulating in our bookswap. If you know of a book coming out (or already out) that fits the criteria, make sure it’s listed on the FeministSF Wiki.

I’m also looking for someone to help me manage this blog. We won’t post very often, but someone needs to keep an eye on the comments, spam, etc., with some regularity. If you’re interested, drop me a comment.