Description
Physical chemist Rosalind Franklin was one of the discoverers of DNA and an innovator of virology — yet despite her groundbreaking research, her contributions were often erased. In her memory, Rosalind’s Siblings collects over twenty original speculative fiction stories and poems, all focusing on scientists marginalized due to their gender. Edited by Hugo and Lambda award winner Bogi Takács, and featuring both established and newer authors from all around the world, the pieces in this anthology take you across time and space while exploring the role of scientists in society.
Featuring
| Lisa M. Bradley | “Collecting Ynés” |
| Polenth Blake | “Rewilding Nova” |
| Stefani Cox | “Render Raze Revise” |
| Julie Nováková | “Cavern of Dreams” |
| D.A. Xiaolin Spires | “The Vanishing of Ultratatts” |
| Lydia Moon | “The Starship Ariel” |
| Leigh Harlen | “Singing Goblin Songs” |
| Celia Neri | “The Tightrope Walker” |
| Ursula Whitcher | “Circle Packing” |
| Premee Mohamed | “If Strange Things Happen Where She Is” |
| Emma Alice Johnson | “Animal Behavior” |
| Santiago Belluco | “The Elusive Plague” |
| Julian K. Jarboe | “The Android That Designed Itself” |
| Phoebe Barton | “To Keep the Way” |
| Jennifer Lee Rossman | “Blood and Iron” |
| Kanika Agrawal | “Possible Discontinuity and Unusual Secondary Structure of Okazaki and Okazaki” |
| Laura Jane Swanson | “Leech Clinic” |
| Osahon Ize-Iyamu | “Great Things Of Which To Speak Of” |
| Vajra Chandrasekera | “The Bull of the Moon Holds His Horns to Time’s Grindstone; or, Cybernetineti in Ur” |
| Cameron Van Sant | “LDR” |
| Tessa Fisher | “Morning Star Blues” |
| Hal Y. Zhang | “The Astronomer Aspiring” |
| Isha Karki | “The Ocean Sings to You” |
Cover illustration by Mia Carnevale.
Media
Rosalind’s Siblings on the Locus Magazine 2023 Recommended Reading List
Accolades
Finalist – 2024 Lambda Literary Awards for LGBTQ+ Anthology
Longlist – 2023 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards for Collection
Reviews
“Featuring stories and poems, the anthology challenges, confronts, and comforts all at once, featuring a range of characters facing intense and complex situations involving research, exploration, and discovery. It’s a wonderful reading experience!” — Charles Payseur, series editor of We’re Here: The Year’s Best Queer Speculative Fiction
“The anthology contains several excellent works. I enjoyed this a lot, not in the least because it introduced me to several new writers. Recommended!” — Kelly Jennings, Azimov’s Science Fiction
