Wilde Stories 2009: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590210794 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Many of the authors included have won awards for their fiction, and their stories seek to press new boundaries of loneliness, loss and love, between men and monster (and those men who happen to be monsters).. These are tales that range from the chilling (Lee Thomas' "I'm Your Violence") to the surreal (Sven Davisson's "Dim Star Descried") to the fantastical ("Firooz and His Brother" by Alex Jeffers). The latest edition of Wilde Stories, once more edited by Steve Berman--a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for the last volume--promises readers a range of imaginative gay-themed fiction culled from the prior year
He has edited more anthologies of queer speculative fiction than any other individual, alive or dead. He has been a finalist for the Andre Norton Award, Lambda Literary Award, Golden Crown Literary Award, and Shirley Jackson Awards. He resides in southern New Jersey, where he runs Lethe Press, a small press that publishes books offering queer and weird adventures for readers of every gender and sexual identity. . Steve Berman h
Different people, different worlds, but people are still people. --Rainbow ReviewsThese eleven stories display a match made in heaven and, on occasion, consummated in hell: speculative / slipstream literature conflated with a queer/LGBT sensibility. --CHROMA, A Queer Journal. Wilde Stories promises the reader the year's best gay speculative fiction, and delivers a very impressive selection indeed. --Midwest Book ReviewEvery single piece in the collection has a very distinct voice, and together they range across a wide spectrum of moods, styles, and settings. Wilde Stories 2009 is a choice pick for those looking
Oscar would dig Drew White Two stories are clear stand-outs here. Hal Duncan's "Behold of the Eye" is an essay on the development of a queer psyche in a heterosexist context, in the form of a harrowing fantasy adventure tale. A close second to "Behold" is the cool, strange, and lovely "Firooz and His Brother" by Alex Jeffers--a genderqueer arabesque that surprises and successfully evokes a savor of the east (for this lily-white reader, at least).I also liked Berman's sad and playful "Troll on a Mountain with a Girl," in which a monster/victim stalks a victim/monster--and Chazz Brenchley's "In the Night Street Baths," which plays with genre, gender, and morality in w. A choice pick for those looking for short gay fiction, or simply science fiction and fantasy Different people, different worlds, but people are still people. "Wilde Stories 2009: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction" is a collection of short fiction that editor Steve Berman holds to be the best gay Science Fiction and Fantasy, as these tales present a perspective of gay life while still being fine science fiction and fantasy in their own rights. "Wilde Stories 2009" is a choice pick for those looking for short gay fiction, or simply science fiction and fantasy.. "Not quite as good as 2008" according to evette. As to be expected really great stories although there were 2 that underwhelmed, but someone else may really like them. But that is to be expected. Now I am onto the next in the series