Battling in All Her Finery: Historical Accounts of Otherworldly Women Leaders (Mad Scientist Journal Presents) (Volume 5)

by Alisha A. Knaff (Contributor), Dawn Vogel (Editor), Jeremy Zimmerman (Editor)

Series:Mad Scientist Journal Presents (5)

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"I am a woman between worlds. Civilian and military. Seamstress and soldier. The Grande Arm e I serve stands between tradition and merit. France itself between republic and monarchy. I stand between comfort and a wall of iron. Between progress and the world of dragons. Between grief and freedom." --Blake Jessop, "Cuirassiere" No one understands leadership like those who have led. Mad Scientist Journal has brought together twenty-one tales of otherworldly women leaders. Some are born to show more power, while others find the spark of power within themselves. Their leadership crosses the boundaries between the military and political world, while also making stops in music, the boardroom, and civil movements. Included in this collection are stories from Elisa A. Bonnin, L. Chan, Nathan Crowder, Lin Darrow, A. J. Fitzwater, G. Scott Huggins, Patrick Hurley, Blake Jessop, Alisha A. Knaff, Aimee Kuzenski, Christine Lucas, Matt Moran, Mathew Murakami, Jennifer R. Povey, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Frances Sharp, D. A. Xiaolin Spires, Leora Spitzer, Priya Sridhar, Tais Teng, and Shirley Vogel. Includes art by Rhaega Ailani, Errow Collins, A. Jones, Leigh Legler, Justine McGreevy, and Ariel Alian Wilson. show less

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JohnNienart 277 reviews

The editors of this collection are friends of mine, and I was a Kickstarter backer of this book as well as their previous four collections, so perhaps I'm a bit biased. But I have to say I thought this is their strongest collection yet. The previous anthologies were themed by situation (apocalypse, haunted/weird locations, "monsters" in society, ...), but since this collection's theme is women leaders, there is a breadth of style and genre I haven't seen in these before, and it's delightful. All the stories keep to the first-person format of "Mad Scientist Journal", the quarterly zine the editors put out, but they range from mythological Ethiopia to Napoleonic France to revolutionary Mexico, and from fantasy to cyberpunk dystopia to show more generation ship. It made for a very fun read, which is why I'm excited to see that the editors have launched the kickstarter for their next anthology, I Didn't Break the Lamp. I'm looking forward to that one already. show less

Jul 11, 2021

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