Wilde Stories 2018: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction

by Steve Berman

Overview

The final volume in the series that offers readers the best gay-themed stories of the strange, uncanny, and fantastical is out! In these pages are work by such acclaimed spec fic authors as Richard Bowes, Sam J. Miller, Sean Eads, and John Chu. Turn a page and walk the halls of a library shelved with every book never completed by authors before they passed away, a fish grants a young man wishes without ever explaining their true cost, ghosts relive their erotic past, Captain Hook and the Greek god Pan finally meet, and even Oscar Wilde himself makes an appearance in this anthology by Lambda Literary Award-winning editor Steve Berman.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155821861
Publisher:	Lethe Press
Publication date:	09/22/2018
Series:	Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Author of over a hundred short stories, editor of numerous queer and weird anthologies, and small press publisher living in western Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

• Ghost Sex' by Joseph Keckler
• "Serving Fish” by Christopher Caldwell
• “Some Kind of Wonderland” by Richard Bowes
• “Pan and Hook” by Adam McOmber
• “The Summer Mask” by Karin Lowachee
• “The Library of Lost Things” by Matthew Bright
• “Making the Magic Lightning Strike Me” by John Chu
• “Salamander Six-Guns” by Martin Cahill
• “Cracks” by Xen
• “The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter” by Sam J. Miller
• “Uncanny Valley” by Greg Egan
• “Love Pressed in Vinyl” by Devon Wong
• "There Used to Be Olive Trees" by Rich Larson
• “The Secret of Flight” by A.C. Wise
• “A Bouquet of Wonder and Marvel” by Sean Eads

Editorial Reviews

08/13/2018
Lethe publisher Berman’s final annual anthology of gay speculative fiction contains 14 impressive selections that blend clever premises with mostly subdued queer desires. In Christopher Caldwell’s “Serving Fish,” Eric catches a fish that promises wishes without explaining the steep costs. In Karin Lowachee’s “The Summer Mask,” the tenderness of the relationship between a disfigured, blinded veteran and the mask maker creating his facial prosthesis takes a swerve into horror. Xen’s “Cracks” challenges teenager Asad to seal a dangerous fissure that leads to a parallel world, where he sees that his doppelganger is in love with beautiful Avondre. In the postapocalyptic Spain of Rich Larson’s “There Used to Be Olive Trees,” massive machines only listen to a few cyborg individuals who are styled as prophets. Other stories explore the devastation of hacked programmable matter, a bite-transmitted alien disease that turns humans into murderous reptilians, and a young man’s struggle with body image despite the ludicrous medical treatments and nanomachinery provided by his shadowy employer. Berman’s diverse selections and their sensitive portrayals of gay men in science fiction and fantasy furnishes ample evidence that his series will be missed. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"...impressive selections that blend clever premises with mostly subdued queer desires." - Publishers Weekly

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