num_pages: 300
description: Stories about lesbians women who choose women as primary partners lovers playmates and co-conspirators tend to go where few men have gone before. Most of the real-life issues that lesbians must deal with as women and as members of non-mainstream communities appear in these stories in metaphorical form or as plausible scenarios in a future or alternate world. Lesbianism itself was routinely described by the conservatives of the past as impossible. The formula of woman  woman is thus logically connected with other phenomenon formerly considered impossible: magic witchcraft folk cures scientific discoveries alternate methods of producing offspring space travel communication with beings who are not human or not living in human bodies historical accounts that have been suppressed or denied. The Heiresses of Russ series seeks to offer readers the best lesbian-themed speculative fictions stories published the prior year. Jean Roberta M. Bennardo Melissa Moorer Susan Jane Bigelow Ruthanna Emrys Ken Liu Darcie Little Badger Seanan McGuire Shannon Connor Winward Nicola Griffith B R Sanders Alex Dally MacFarlane Sarah L. Byrne Vivien Jackson Annabeth Leong Stacia Seaman Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam Seth Dickinson Benjanun Sriduangkaew
language: English
title: Heiresses of Russ 2015: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction
publisher: Lethe Press