Thorns

The latest furore to hit the fannish blogosphere is that The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF consists entirely of stories by white men. Called on this, the editor said the emphasis was on stories that took unusual scientific concepts and developed them in even more unusual ways...with women the stories concentrate far more on people, life, society and not the hard-scientific concepts I was looking for..

This has understandably pissed people off, and there has been much listing of female (and to a lesser extent POC) authors who write "mindblowing" stuff.

But I thought it might be worth being more specific. So: what are some "mindblowing" individual stories (novels or short stories etc(*)) by someone who isn't a white man (ie women, POC, trans writers etc) that "takes unusual scientific concepts and develops them in even more unusual ways". (They can also concentrate on people, life, society)

Off the top of my head:

• Bellwether, by Connie Willis, about trends and chaos theory.
  
• Many short stories by Ted Chiang, specifically Seventy Two Letters, a hard sci-fi story set in an alternate Victorian London about homunculi and golems and how they relate to the laws of thermodynamics.
  
• Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia Butler: The aliens have a really fascinating biology. Her shorts stories are apparently amazing too.
  

Mindblowing but with really squishy sciences like linguistics and sociology:

• "The Sparrow" by Maria Doria Russell. I hated this book but the linguistics was pretty awesome.
  
• "Where once the sweet birds sang" by Kate Wilhelm. On the cultural effects of a society of clones.
  
• Sleepless series by Nancy Kress: the sociological effects of having a genuinely superior subset of society.
  

See also the first few comments to this (very good) post.

I was feeling bad about not being able to think of many, but there's very few authors I consider really mindblowing science-wise, I bet I wouldn't agree with the stories picked for the original anthology.

(*)I'd say "Only short stories" but I personally don't like short stories so wouldn't have much to list :D