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Various and Fun: Heiresses of Russ 2012, edited by Connie Wilkins and Steve...
The second installment of Lethe Press’s newest series venture, Heiresses of Russ, has recently been released. As with the previous volume, the year’s guest editor (this time around, Connie Wilkins)...
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Queering SFF Tidbit: The 2012 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards
As reported by Julia Rios of the Outer Alliance, the winner and shortlist for the 2012 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel were announced over this past weekend at Gaylaxicon in Minneapolis, MN....
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Queering SFF: Have A Little Theory, or Queer Theories by Donald E. Hall
There are some unspoken ideas that have been fueling this series since its inception—ideas about reading closely, creatively, and with an eye to finding, celebrating, and also problematizing the queer...
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Queering SFF: While I Was Away (Now with Added Theory!)
It’s been some time since we’ve had a discussion-oriented post at Queering SFF—sure, there have been book reviews and awards coverage and the like, but hardly enough chatting about the field...
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Queering SFF Tidbit: Lambda Literary Award Nominees Announced
The 25th Annual Lambda Awards nominees have been announced, including the LGBT Science Fiction /Fantasy/Horror category. The Lambda Awards, as the press release says, “celebrate achievement in...
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Scholar Uncovers the Fantastic Four’s Secret Identity Politics
To be a fan is to place oneself apart—or perhaps to be apart is to find a community of what enthuses you while the mainstream passes by. This is a model that forms a natural affinity between the...
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Look into the Shuffle: Spin State by Chris Moriarty
The first installment of Chris Moriarty’s recently-completed Spin Trilogy, Spin State (2003) was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick, John Campbell, Spectrum and Prometheus Awards—a strong debut,...
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The Time of Cruel Miracles: Spin Control by Chris Moriarty
The second in the Spin trilogy, Spin Control (2006) was a finalist for the Lambda Award and winner of the 2007 Philip K. Dick award. As the follow-up to an already strong debut, Spin Control builds on...
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Decoherent Histories: Ghost Spin by Chris Moriarty
The third and final installment of Chris Moriarty’s Spin Trilogy, Ghost Spin, releases at the end of May—nearly seven years after the initial release of Spin Control, itself the brilliant follow-up to...
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Queering SFF Tidbit: 25th Annual Lambda Award Winners Announced
At a lovely New York City gala, the winners of the 25th annual Lambda Literary Award for outstanding LGBTQ literature were announced—including the science fiction, fantasy, and horror category. Past...
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Short Fiction Spotlight: Wilde Stories 2013, edited by Steve Berman
Welcome back to the Short Fiction Spotlight, a space for conversation about recent and not-so-recent short stories. We’ve had a little delay on my end, but this week we’re back with a discussion of one...
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Alternative Relationships in YA: Inheritance by Malinda Lo
The sequel to last year’s Adaptation (reviewed here), Malinda Lo’s newest near-future science fiction novel for young adults—Inheritance—continues and completes the story of Reese Holloway, her...
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Tapestries of Community: The Stars Change
Another book that’s the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign—I seem to be talking about a lot of those recently, don’t I?—Mary Anne Mohanraj’s The Stars Change is an illustrated short SF novel...
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Queering SFF: Red Caps by Steve Berman
Being a queer teenager can be tough—particularly when you have to deal with strange magic, or vampires, or trying to make a relationship work in the complicated ecosystem of high school. The stories...
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Short Fiction Spotlight: Stories by Sriduangkaew and Vernon
Welcome back to the Short Fiction Spotlight, a space for conversation about recent and not-so-recent short stories. Last time around I discussed the novella Cry Murder! In a Small Voice by Greer...
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Queering SFF Tidbit: Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced
The 26th Annual Lambda Awards nominees have been announced, including the LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror category. The Lambda Awards, as the press release says, “celebrate achievement in lesbian,...
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Queering SFF: Scruffians! by Hal Duncan
Scruffians! by Hal Duncan, releasing in early April from Lethe Press, is a wickedly entertaining collection of short fiction fantastical and queer in nature—full of “scruffians and scamps and...
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Queering SFF: Pride Month Extravaganza! Redux
The sun is shining here, the weather’s warm-approaching-hot, and there are about to be parades and festivals and small personal celebrations all over the US. It’s June again, friends—and June means...
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Queering SFF Pride Month: Hild by Nicola Griffith
The flap copy for Hild opens with scene setting: “In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods are struggling, their...
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Queering SFF Pride Month: No Straight Lines edited by Justin Hall
Next up on the docket for this month’s Extravaganza, following Nicola Griffith’s historical novel Hild, is a totally different kind of book: No Straight Lines, an anthology of “four decades of queer...
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