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Rivqa Rafael lives in Sydney, where she writes speculative fiction about queer women, Jewish women, cyborg futures, and hope in dystopias. Her short stories have been published in GlitterShip, Escape Pod, Resist Fascism (Crossed Genres), and elsewhere. She recently co-edited feminist robot anthology Mother of Invention, which won a Ditmar Award and a Norma K. Hemming Award.

Several of her short stories have been shortlisted for Woollahra Digital Literary, Norma K. Hemming, and Ditmar awards; in 2016, she won the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 564 ratings · 173 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Defying Doomsday by Tsana Dolichva (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Holly Kench (Editor), Octavia Cade (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.32 avg rating — 351 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother of Invention by Rivqa Rafael (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tansy Rayner Roberts (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecopunk! - speculative tales of radical futures by Liz Grzyb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cat Sparks (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jason Nahrung (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.55 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resist Fascism by Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kay T. Holt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rivqa Rafael (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People by Andrea D. Lobel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Shainblum (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Silverberg 3.97 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hear Me Roar by Liz Grzyb (Goodreads Author) (editor), Jenny Blackford (Goodreads Author), Faith Mudge (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015 by Liz Grzyb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Talie Helene (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jo Anderton (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Never Never Land by Mitchell Akhurst (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Phillip Berrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ian McHugh (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Being Human by Tehani Croft Wessely (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephanie Lai (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Day Girl by Rivqa Rafael (Goodreads Author), Pamela Quevillon (Narrator) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Short story reviews, 2021 edition

Probably the only really worthwhile thing I did on my now-deleted Twitter is write micro reviews of short stories. I started doing this because short stories receive so little attention (or at least positive attention), but when they’re good they’re … Continue reading →

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“It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.”
― C. J. Cherryh

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“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
― Samuel Adams

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“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

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― Charlaine Harris

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