Beyond Binary
by Brit Mandelo
Speculative fiction is the literature of questions, of challenges and imagination, and what better to question than the ways in which gender and sexuality have been rigidly defined, partitioned off, put in little boxes? These seventeen stories explore the ways in which identity can go beyond binary from space colonies to small college towns, from angels to androids, and from a magical past to other worlds entirely, the authors in this collection have brought to life wonderful tales starring people who proudly define (and redefine) their own genders, sexualities, identities, and so much else in between. Featuring the following stories: “Sea of Cortez” by Sandra McDonald “Eye of the
Storm” by Kelley Eskridge “Fisherman”
by Nalo Hopkinson “Pirate
Solutions” by Katie Sparrow “A Wild and
a Wicked Youth” by Ellen Kushner “Prosperine
When it Sizzles” by Tansy Roberts “The Faery
Cony-Catcher” by Delia Sherman “Palimpsest”
by Catherynne M. Valente “Another
Coming” by Sonya Taaffe “Bleaker
Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot” by Claire
Humphrey “The Ghost
Party” by Richard Larson “Bonehouse”
by Keffy R. M. Kehrli “Sex with
Ghosts” by Sarah Kanning “Spoiling
Veena” by Keyan Bowes “Self-Reflection”
by Tobi Hill-Meyer “The
Metamorphosis Bud” by Liu Wen Zhuang
“Schrodinger's
Pussy” by Terra LeMay
Storm” by Kelley Eskridge “Fisherman”
by Nalo Hopkinson “Pirate
Solutions” by Katie Sparrow “A Wild and
a Wicked Youth” by Ellen Kushner “Prosperine
When it Sizzles” by Tansy Roberts “The Faery
Cony-Catcher” by Delia Sherman “Palimpsest”
by Catherynne M. Valente “Another
Coming” by Sonya Taaffe “Bleaker
Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot” by Claire
Humphrey “The Ghost
Party” by Richard Larson “Bonehouse”
by Keffy R. M. Kehrli “Sex with
Ghosts” by Sarah Kanning “Spoiling
Veena” by Keyan Bowes “Self-Reflection”
by Tobi Hill-Meyer “The
Metamorphosis Bud” by Liu Wen Zhuang
“Schrodinger's
Pussy” by Terra LeMay