Transcendent 2
The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction ed.
edited by Bogi Takács
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction!
As with the first volume of Transcendent, Lethe Press has worked with a wonderful editor to select the best work of genderqueer stories of the fantastical, stranger, horrific, and weird published the prior year. Featuring stories by Merc Rustad, Jeanne Thornton, Brit Mandelo, and others, this anthology offers time-honored tropes of the genre--from genetic manipulation to zombies, portal fantasy to haunts--but told from a perspective that breaks the rigidity of gender and sexuality.
Table of Contents:
"Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy" by Charlie Jane Anders
"Skerry-Bride" by Sonya Taaffe
"Transitions" by Gwen Benaway
"This is Not a Wardrobe Door" by A. Merc Rustad
"Three Points Masculine" by An Owomoyela
"The L7 Gene" by Jeanne Thornton
"Rhizomatic Diplomacy" by Vajra Chandrasekera
"The Pigeon Summer" by Brit Mandelo
"The Road, and the Valley, and the Beasts" by Keffy R. M. Kehrli
"About a Woman and a Kid" by M Eighteen Téllez
"Sky and Dew" by Holly Heisey
"The Nothing Spots Where Nobody Wants to Stay" by Julian K. Jarboe
"Lisa's Story: Zombie Apocalypse" by Gillian Ybabez
"Happy REGARDS" by RoAnna Sylver
"The Way You Say Good-Night" by Toby MacNutt
"Her Sacred Spirit Soars" by S. Qiouyi Lu
Paperback
"This anthology embraces the multifaceted nature of trans identities, imagining them into worlds that are both new and familiar. Takács has assembled a book that reads like a fascinating conversation in which the reader feels lucky to participate." - Publishers Weekly, starred review