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Queers destroy science fiction! special issue
422 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Even in science fiction, supposedly the genre of limitless possibility, where everyone is invited to the adventure, heterosexual, heteroromantic, and cisgendered are considered the default, to the extent that everything else is "deviation", and must be eyed with suspicion. This issue contains 10 original science fiction short stories (selected by guest editor Seanan McGuire), including new stories by award-winning queer authors Amal El-Mohtar, and John Chu; 4 classic short story reprints and a novella reprint (selected by guest reprint editor Steve Berman); approx. 10,000 words of original flash fiction (selected by guest flash fiction editor Sigrid Ellis); 7 nonfiction articles (selected by guest nonfiction editor Mark Oshiro); approx. 30 personal essays about the experience reading and writing science fiction as a queer person (selected by managing editor Wendy N. Wagner); original artwork (selected by and featuring a cover by guest art director Elizabeth Leggett); and more!
Original short stories / edited by Seanan McGuire. (Influence isolated, make peace) / John Chu -- Emergency repair / Kate M. Galey -- Trickier with each translation / Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam -- The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal / Chaz Brenchley -- The tip of the tongue / Felicia Davin -- How to remember to forget to remember the old war / Rose Lemberg -- Plant children / Jessica Yang -- Nothing is pixels here / K.M. Szpara -- Madeleine / Amal El-Mohtar -- Two by two / Tim Susman -- Die, Sophie, die / Susan Jane Bigelow.
Original flash fiction / edited by Sigrid Ellis. Melioration / E. Saxey -- Rubbing is racing / Charles Payseur -- Helping hand / Claudine Griggs -- The lamb chops / Stephen Cox -- Mama / Eliza Gauger -- Bucket list found in the locker of Maddie Price, age 14, written two weeks before the great uplifting of all mankind / Erica L. Satifka -- Deep/dark space / Gabrielle Friesen -- A brief history of whaling with remarks upon ancient practices / Gabby Read -- Nothing goes to waste / Shannon Peavey -- In the dawns between hours / Sarah Pinsker -- Increasing police visibility / Bogi Takács -- Letter from an artist to a thousand future versions of her wife / JY Yang.
Reprint fiction / selected by Steve Berman. Black holes / RJ Edwards -- Red run / AMJ Hudson -- Cyberfruit swamp / Raven Kaldera -- The sound of his wings / Rand B. Lee -- O happy day! / Geoff Ryman.
Excerpt / presented by Open Road Media. Skin folk / Nalo Hopkinson.
Author spotlights / edited by Sandra Odell. John Chu -- Kate M. Galey -- Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam -- Chaz Brenchley -- Felicia Davin -- Rose Lemberg -- Jessica Yang -- K.M. Szpara -- Amal El-Mohtar -- Tim Susman -- Susan Jane Bigelow -- RJ Edwards -- AMJ Hudson -- Raven Kaldera -- Rabd B. Lee -- Geoff Ryman.
Nonfiction / edited by Mark Oshiro. Artists gallery / C. Bedford, Odera Igbokwe, Orion Zangara, Isabel Collier, Paige Braddock, Steen, Elizabeth Leggett / Artists spotlight / Elizabeth Legget -- Book reviews, June 2015: Friendship, chosen family, and queer communities / Amal El-Mohtar -- Interview: David Gerrold / Mark Oshiro -- We've made it to ... Magrathea? / Jennifer Cross -- Not android, not alien, not accident / Cedar Rae Duke -- Diversity in a ghetto / Pablo Miguel Alberto Vazquez -- Queers in a strange land / Amber Neko Meador.
Personal essays / edited by Wendy N. Wagner. Science fiction failed me / Cory Skerry -- So say we all / Emma Osborne -- 1984 in 1980 / Lee Thomas -- Speak up, speak out / Sandra Odell -- How queer narratives beat the false-consensus effect, reminded me that diversity existed, exploited human psychology, inspired sex positivity, and helped me stop worrying (but not to love the bomb) / An Owomoyela -- Spark / Mark Oshiro -- Science fiction has always been queer / Sigrid Ellis -- Halfway in the pool / James L. Sutter -- All that glitters / Jill Seidenstein -- When we're not there, we're not here / Jerome Stueart / A gay boy gets his genre on / Anthony Cardno -- All your fic are belong to us / Rachel Swirsky -- Go bisexual space rangers, go! / Cecilia Tan -- Drama kid / Cecil Baldwin -- Rewriting our default settings / Elizabeth Leggett -- Confessions of a queer curator / Lynne M. Thomas -- Where now must I go to make a home? / Hal Duncan -- Destruction is what creation needs / Sunny Moraine -- Shiva and Octavia / Sam J. Miller -- Creative destruction / Lisa Nohealani Morton -- Here's how it goes / Alyssa Wong -- Acceptance / Arley Sorg -- The books that read me / Everett Maroon -- The desperate task: making the invisible visible / Christopher Barzak -- A world of queer imagination / Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam -- The first rule I leaned about writing queer characters in science fiction / Haralambi Markov -- Queers digging and destroying / Michael Damian Thomas.
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.