This anthology showcases the most exceptional science fiction stories written by women in recent decades, from classic stars like Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree Jr. to science-fiction greats such Nancy Kress, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Karen Joy Fowler to new award-winning talents.

Girl hours /Sofia Samatar -- Excerpt from a letter by a social-realist Aswang / Kristin Mandigma -- Somadeva: a sky river sutra / Vandana Singh -- The queen of Erewon / Lucy Sussex -- Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's Day / Tori Truslow -- Spider the artist / Nnedi Okorafor -- The science of herself / Karen Joy Fowler -- The other graces / Alice Sola Kim -- Boojum / Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette -- The eleven holy numbers of the mechanical soul / Natalia Theodoridou -- Mountain ways / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Tan-Tan and Dry Bone / Nalo Hopkinson -- The four generations of Chang E / Zen Cho -- Stay thy flight / Élisabeth Vonarburg -- Astrophilia / Carrie Vaughan -- Invisible planets / Hao Jingfang -- On the Leitmotif of the Trickster Constellation in Northern Hemispheric star charts, post apocalypse / Nicole Kornher-Stace -- Valentines / Shira Lipkin -- Dancing in the shadow of the once / Rochita Loenen-Ruiz -- Ej-Es / Nancy Kress -- The cartographer wasps and the anarchist bees / E. Lily Yu -- The death of Sugar Daddy / Toiya Kristen Finley -- Enyo-Enyo / Kameron Hurley -- Semiramis / Genevieve Valentine -- Immersion / Aliette de Bogard -- Down the wall / Greer Gilman -- Sing / Karin Tidbeck -- Good boy / Nisi Shwal -- The second card of the Major Arcana / Thoraiya Dyer -- A short encyclopedia of lunar seas / Ekaterina Sedia -- Vector / Benjanun Sriduangkaew -- Concerning the unchecked growth of cities / Angélica Gorodischer -- The radiant car thy sparrows drew / Catherynne M. Valente.