Transcendent 3: The Year's Best Transgender Themed Speculative Fiction

by Bogi TakÃÂÂcs (Editor)

Overview

The stories in this year's selection are sometimes grim, sometimes cheerful, sometimes quirky--but always full of emotion. Editor Takács has assembled a wide range of non-cis experiences: from an intergalactic art heist to the everyday life of a trans woman through the lens of horror movies; non-binary parenting in the far future, to a unique method of traveling back to the past. Steampunk, ghosts, even deities, all can be found in these stories that show how transness can relate to and subvert so many themes at the heart of speculative fiction. The introduction also includes a section on year-to-year changes in transgender SFF, and assembled longer-form trans highlights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590217061
Publisher:	Lethe Press
Publication date:	11/01/2018
Pages:	264
Sales rank:	957,280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Bogi Takács (e/em/eir/emself or they pronouns) is a Hungarian Jewish agender trans person and a migrant to the United States. E writes, edits and reviews speculative fiction and poetry, and e edited the Lambda Literary Award-winning Transcendent 2.

Table of Contents

"The Chameleon's Gloves" by Yoon Ha Lee

"Death You Deserve" by Ryley Knowles

"Fire Fills the Belly" by Noa Josef Sperber

"Small Changes Over Large Periods of Time" by K.M. Szpara

"Heat Death of Western Human Arrogance" by M. Téllez

"Praying to the God of Small Chances" by L. Chan

"The Mouse" Larissa Glasser

"Cooking with Closed Mouths" by Kerry Truong

"World of Three" by Shweta Narayan

"A Spell to Signal Home" by A.C. Buchanan

"Feed" by Rivers Solomon

"Hello, World" by Polenth Blake

"A Splendid Goat Adventure" by Rose Lemberg

"A Complex Filament of Light" by S. Qiouyi Lu

"Minor Heresies" by Ada Hoffmann

"The Heavy Things" by Julian Jarboe

"Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue" by Charlie Jane Anders

"The Worldless" by Indrapramit Das

"The Heart's Cartography" by Susan Jane Bigelow

Editorial Reviews

★ 09/24/2018
In this spectacular anthology, Takács (Transcendent 2) weaves together a beautiful tapestry of worlds where trans people live, love, and thrive. The characters collected within are varied in gender identity and their relationships to their bodies. Some, such as the “mechanicals” in Shweta Narayan’s “World of the Three,” have inorganic bodies. Others, like Finley in K.M. Szpara’s “Small Changes over Long Periods of Time,” are still learning how to live in the bodies they’ve made for themselves. In Ryley Knowles’s “Death You Deserve,” a trans woman’s very real fear of being murdered becomes a ritualized phobia linked to common ways that women die in horror films. S. Qiouyi Lu’s “A Complex Filament of Light” tells the story of a nonbinary grad student who’s studying climate change in Antarctica and pondering the cultural factors behind their sister’s suicide. Each story honors its subjects with uncommon beauty and grace, and the people feel real even as they wreathe themselves in fire or argue with minor deities in hospital waiting rooms. Takács has brought together aching, melancholic, and marvelous speculative stories that speak to the humanity and variety of trans characters. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

"Takács has brought together aching, melancholic, and marvelous speculative stories that speak to the humanity and variety of trans characters." - Publishers Weekly, starred review

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