Transcendent : the year's best transgender speculative fiction

Book 2016

"There are fantastical stories with actual transgender characters, some for whom that is central and others for whom that isn't. And there are stories without transgender characters, but with metaphors and symbolism in their place, genuine expressions of self through such speculative fiction tropes as shapeshifting and programming. Transgender individuals see themselves in transformative characters, those outsiders, before seeing themselves as hu...

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ISBN:

9781590216170

Description:

ix, 195 pages ; 23 cm

Contents:

Introduction / K.M. Szpara
The shape of my name / Nino Cipri
into the waters I rode down / Jack Hollis Marr
Everything beneath you / Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
Contents of care package to Etsath-tachri, formerly Ryan Andrew Curran (Human English translated to Sedrayin) / Holly Heisey
The petals abide / Benjamin Sriduangkaew
Treasure acre / Everett Maroon
Splitskin / E. Catherine Tobler
The need for overwhelming sensation / Bogi Takacs
The Scaper's muse / B.R. Sanders
The librarian's dilemma / E. Saxey
Chosen / Margarita Tenser
Where monsters dance / A. Merc Rustad
Be not unequally yoked / Alexis A. Hunter
The thing on the cheerleading squad / Molly Tanzer
Kim, painted / Penny Stirling

Control Number:

1931407

Other Authors:

Szpara, K. M., editor

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