Women Writing Science Fiction as Men

Cover of 2003 Daw edition

Women Writing Science Fiction as Men is a 2003 anthology edited by Mike Resnick.

It was one of two works that reversed gender of author and protagonist (Women Writing Science Fiction as Men and Men Writing Science Fiction as Women).

The premise was for women sf writers to write a story "not about a man's actions, not using him as a main character, but as a man"; that "each story had to be told in the first person of a man; and second, if changing the narrator from Victor to Victoria didn't invalidate the story we didn't want it." -- from Resnick's Introduction.

Editions

• 2003: Daw, New York. ISBN 0756401488. 320 pages.

Contents

• Introduction by Mike Resnick;
• "Homecoming" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch;
• "Big" by Leah A. Zeldes;
• "Prayerville" by Janis Ian;
• "Kingdom Come" by Kay Kenyon;
• "Licensed to Reclaim" by Laura Resnick;
• "Better Than Ants" by Barbara Galler-Smith;
• "Blackbird, Fly!" by Linda J. Dunn;
• "Call for Submissions" by Severna Park;
• "All My Children" by Leslie What;
• "What Goes Around" by Robyn Herrington;
• "Thumping the Weaver" by Susan R. Matthews;
• "Maxwell's Law" by Adrienne Gormley;
• "Diving After Reflected Woman" by Terry McGarry;
• "Sweeps Week" by Mercedes Lackey;
• "A Good Idea at the Time" by Karen E. Taylor;
• "Jesus Freaks" by Jennifer Roberson.

Reviews

• SFSite review by Michael M. Jones
• Review at Gregg Thurlbeck at Rambles