title: To Shape the Dark (Feral Astrogators)
author: Athena Andreadis Ph.D.
description: Andreadis&apos;s extraordinary follow-up to <i>The Other Half of the Sky</i> dazzles with 15 SF stories about respected and daring women scientists in their fields. Celebrating scientific discovery, the imaginative stories feature diverse cultures, intriguing settings, and intelligent plots. /.../ This collection will remind readers why they love science fiction as it celebrates scientists and science in deeply meaningful stories full of well-realized characters. - <b>Publishers Weekly</b> (starred review)<br /><br />Most of all, these stories make the reader <i>think</i>. They challenge us to question some cherished conventions of the field (the lone scientist removed from the world, the Frankenstein and Prometheus narratives, pessimism about science and its products). They turn familiar situations on their heads (resurrected dinosaurs, philosophical cetaceans, alien invasion, parallel worlds). There&apos;s not a bad story in this bunch. /.../ If you like well-told, intelligent science fiction that respects the search for knowledge, you can&apos;t afford to miss this one. - <b>Analog SF</b><br /><br />&quot;...Andreadis has not just created a worthy successor to her first anthology: she has surpassed it. /.../ In <i>To Shape the Dark</i>, Andreadis gives us fifteen stories in which both women and science--real science--are the heroes. I seldom read an anthology with more than one or two really good stories in it. /.../ Here, every single one is not just good, but stellar.&quot; - <b>Strange Horizons</b>
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  A DARK ALIEN ROMANCE
  
  ATHENA STORM
  CARA STONE
  
  ATHENAVERSE PRESS
  
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  CONTENTS
  Books of the Athenaverse
  Description
  The Badlands and Helios Combine
  Prologue
  1. Mehr
  2. Melinda
  3. Mehr
  4. Melinda
  5. Mehr
  6. Melinda
  7. Mehr
  8. Melinda
  9. Mehr
  10. Melinda
  11. Mehr
  12. Melinda
  13. Mehr
  14. Melinda
  15. Mehr
  16. Melinda
  17. Mehr
  18. Melinda
  19. Mehr
  20. Melinda
  21. Mehr
  22. Melinda
  23. Mehr
  24. Melinda
  25. Mehr
  26. Melinda
  27. Mehr
  28. Melinda
  29. Mehr
  30. Melinda
  31. Orolok
  Books of the Athenaverse
  
  BOOKS OF THE ATHENAVERSE
  Reaper’s Property:
  Monster
  Savage
  Reaper’s Pet Series (An Athenaverse Collabora