This title features ten science fiction stories, each featuring well-developed, strong female characters, which have garnered numerous literary awards and span every style and theme in speculative fiction. It includes work from Anne McCaffey, Ursula Le Guinn and Octavia Butler.

From the archives of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" and "Asimov's Science Fiction" magazines comes a thought-provoking anthology of ten stories by a group of bestselling women writers who have changed the nature of visionary fiction.