Artemis Invaded
by Jane Lindskold
(Tor, June 2015, hc, 320 pp.)
Reviewed by Dave Truesdale
Artemis Invaded is the followup to Artemis Awakening (Tor, May 2014). Artemis is a long-forgotten planet, a world far from the hub of the current human spacefaring race, engineered from bare rock as a pleasure world for the elite of a once technologically advanced human empire. It was an Eden of sorts, all the technology skillfully hidden, and with the many animals and humans imported to live there (all bio-engineered), it promised just enough adventure and danger to give those wealthy elites the excitement they craved with just enough credibility to back their claims of braving “nature.”
Crossed Genres 
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #179, August 6, 2015
Apex #75, August 2015
Aurealis #83, August 2015
Terraform, August 4, 7, & 10, 2015
Strange Horizons, August 10, 2015
While we applaud Lightspeed‘s recent groundbreaking, progressive Women Destroy SF and Queers Destroy SF special issues, we feel they didn’t go far enough. To effect change one must not only talk the talk, but walk the walk. Women and Queers are not the only groups destroying science fiction, for those who champion such a worthwhile social cause as androgyny are at fault too. These forward-thinking social futurists should be given their just due as androgyny is perhaps the most important social issue facing science fiction practitioners today, and which, for the most part, the SF community has chosen to ignore with its retrograde thinking in regards to the problem of gender inequality and gender bias in its fiction.