"One of the most compelling aspects of speculative fiction is its ability to fulfill otherwise unattainable desiresβwhether one wants to create a magical society or travel through time, visit an alien civilization or remake history. It also satisfies more mundane reader desires, the ones it would no
Heiresses of Russ 2013- The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction
β Scribed by Johnson, Tenea D; Berman, Steve (editor)
- Book ID
- 109711788
- Publisher
- Lethe Press, Inc.
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1590210727
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"One of the most compelling aspects of speculative fiction is its ability to fulfill otherwise unattainable desiresβwhether one wants to create a magical society or travel through time, visit an alien civilization or remake history. It also satisfies more mundane reader desires, the ones it would not seem so hard to fulfill. To call a few of these out, I'll willingly step on this mine: the explosion of 'should.'"It should not be easier to find a zombie apocalypse than it is to find a lesbian protagonist in the aisles of your local bookstore. Falling for werewolves and shape shifters should not be more accepted than a transgendered love affair; marginalized people really will still exist in the future; more folks should know that, and more so create like they know it. Someone then must step into the gap, or to be more accurate the gaping holes in the collective visions of our possibilities as human beings. In these pages, someone has. Seventeen someones to be exact."βfrom the...
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