Rocket Girls

Angie achieved fame as a spacer. But when some fresh-faced interviewer asks Angie to tell the origin story of the Space Bimbos, the interviewer gets more than she bargained for. Instead, Angie tells the tale of a group of ambitious and talented girls who, inspired by an old pulp magazine called Rocket Girls, cobbled together a rocket and tried to blast off into space-and then, made history. With "Rocket Girls, " Kristine Kathryn Rusch puts her own genius female-empowered twist on the build-a-spaceship-in-your-backyard trope from the pulps. A finalist for the Asimov's Readers Choice Award for best novelette. ".the whole thing was really fun."-Locus "Another great story from this great writer."-SFRevu "'Rocket Girls' by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an entertaining novelette, and well worth a read.
.the light-hearted tale is both reminiscent of and respectful to the pulp era, while acknowledging its obvious faults."-Tangent Online