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《铁寡妇》：当武则天化身科幻大女主

Feminism, giant robots, and historical mashups: Iron Widow tries to do it all. With a protagonist named after real-life female emperor Wu

Zetian, Xiran Jay Zhao’s debut novel eviscerates patriarchy and makes clever historical allusions, but gets lost in the scope of its own imagination.