Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy (2021)

✍ Scribed by Paula Guran

• Book ID: 112076694
• Publisher: Night Shade Books
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 424 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781949102550

✦ Synopsis

An Anthology of Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy from Award-Winning Editor Paula Guran

Speculative fiction imagines drastically diverse ways of being and worlds that are other than the one with which we are familiar. Queerness is a natural fit for such fiction, so one would expect it to be customarily included. That has not always been the case, but LGBTQ+ representation in science fiction and fantasy--in both short and long form--is now relatively common. Even so, most of the queer science fiction and fantasy anthologies published in the last thirty-five years have been narrowly focused: specifically gay male or lesbian (or, more recently, transgender) themes, or all science fiction or all fantasy, or adhering to a specific theme or subgenre.

Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy, on the other hand, features both science fiction and fantasy short fiction from the last decade and includes characters, perspectives, and...