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An Anthology of Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy from Award-Winning Editor Paula Guran Speculative fiction imagines drastically diverse ways of being and worlds that are other than the one with which we are familiar. Queerness is a natural fit for such fiction, so one would expect it to be customarily included. That has not always been the case, but LGBTQ+ representation in science fiction and fantasy—in both short and long form—is now relatively common. Even so, most of the queer science fiction and fantasy anthologies published in the last thirty-five years have been narrowly focused: specifically gay male or lesbian (or, more recently, transgender) themes, or all science fiction or all fantasy, or adhering to a specific theme or subgenre.  Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy, on the other hand, features both science fiction and fantasy short fiction from the last decade and includes characters, perspectives, and stories that span the rainbow. With stories from incredible authors ranging from Seanan McGuire to Charlie Jane Anders to Sam J. Miller, it’s an essential read for anyone interested in queer science fiction and fantasy.ContentsIntroduction: Over the Rainbow and into the Far Out by Paula GuranDestroyed by the Waters by Rachel SwirskyThe Sea Troll’s Daughter by Caitlín R. KiernanAnd If the Body Were Not the Soul by A. C. WiseImago by Tristan Alice NietoParanormal Romance by Christopher BarzakThree Points Masculine by An OwomoyelaDas Steingeschöpf by G. V. AndersonThe Deepwater Bride by Tamsyn MuirThe Shape of My Name by Nino CipriOtherwise by Nisi ShawlThe Night Train by Lavie TidharOurs Is the Prettiest by Nalo HopkinsonDon’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue by Charlie Jane AndersDriving Jenny Home by Seanan McGuireI’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno by Vylar KaftanIn the Eyes of Jack Saul by Richard BowesSecondhand Bodies by Neon YangSeasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-MohtarNé łe! by Darcie Little BadgerThe Duke of Riverside by Ellen KushnerCat Pictures Please by Naomi KritzerThe Lily and the Horn by Catherynne M. ValenteCalved by Sam J. MillerThe River’s Children by Shweta Narayan

A novel of art, love, auto mechanics, and two places: the actualities of the here and now and the desire for somewhere better.

Ghosts of Yesterday is a stunning collection by multiple-award-winning author Jack Cady The Off Season, The Haunting of Hood Canal. Cady captures the sights and emotions of America, from the Pacific Northwest ("e;Jeremiah"e;), to the streets of San Francisco ("e;The Lady With the Blind Dog"e;), to the Midwest-heartland ("e;Halloween 1942"e;), along the roads and highways in between ("e;The Ghost of Dive Bomber Hill"e;), and back into the history of the American Southeast ("e;The Time That Time Forgot"e;). The stories that make up Ghosts of Yesterday are detailed and realistic portraits of the world that, despite (and perhaps because) of their authenticity, manage to convey a sense of wonder and fantastic, where anything is possible. The characters and places that Cady brings to life demonstrate clearly why he is one of the most versatile and respected writers today... His stories will move you, and change the way you look at the world.

Containing almost all of the John the Balladeer stories, Manly's most famous character, this is the 5th of the five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman". It includes: "O Ugly Bird!", "The Desrick on Yandro", "Vandy, Vandy", "One Other", "Call Me From the Valley", "The Little Black Train", "Shiver in the Pines", and more.

Includes the stories: "The Undead Soldier", "Larroes Catch Meddlers", "Up Under the Roof", "Among Those Present", "The Terrible Parchment", "Sin's Doorway", "The Golgotha Dancers", "Changeling", "For Fear of Little Men", "Where Angels Fear", and more. This is the 4th of the five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman".

Containing eight novella length stories, this is the 3rd of the five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman". It includes: "Fearful Rock", "Coven", "Toad's Foot", "For the Love of a Witch", "The Hairy Ones Shall Dance", "The Black Drama", "The Dreadful Rabbits", "The Half-Haunted", and more.

Presents a selection of Wellman's work, which combines the gothic tradition of the American pulps with a snapshot of regional history and culture. This volume two of a five volume set, collecting all of Wellman's Appalachian fantasy stories, includes: "The Devil is Not Mocked", "The Pineys", "Hundred Years Gone", "Keep Me Away", "Yare", and more.

A lowly enchanter finds himself entangled in a plot to assassinate the king in a new historical fantasy series set in twelfth century England.

From award-winning editor Ellen Datlow, an all-original anthology collecting terrifying tales of dark waters and horrifying creatures.

1864. London is a city in transition. The Constantine Affliction-a strange malady that kills some of its victims and physically transforms others into the opposite sex-has spread scandal and upheaval throughout society. Scientific marvels and disasters, such as clockwork courtesans, the alchemical fires of Whitechapel, electric carriages, and acidic monsters lurking in the Thames, have forever altered the face of the city. Pembroke "e;Pimm"e; Hanover is an aristocrat with an interest in criminology, who uses his keen powers of observation to assist the police or private individuals-at least when he's sober enough to do so. Ellie Skyler, who hides her gender behind the byline "e;E. Skye,"e; is an intrepid journalist driven by both passion and necessity to uncover the truth, no matter where it hides. When Pimm and Skye stumble onto a dark plot that links the city's most notorious criminal overlord with the Queen's new consort, famed scientist Sir Bertram Oswald, they soon find the forces of both high and low society arrayed against them. Can they save the city from the arcane machinations of one of history's most monsters-and uncover the shocking origin of . . . THE CONSTANTINE AFFLICTION

The title story of this collection a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft's "e;Pickman's model"e; was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while "e;Probiscus"e; was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story.

Includes, in chronological order, all of Clark Ashton Smith's stories from "The Mandrakes" (February, 1933) to "The Flower-Women" (May, 1935). This book also features an introduction, and notes on each story.

A young man looking for death finds purpose in a world beyond our own in this sweeping fantasy from Greg Keyes (The Briar King, Newton's Cannon). Errol Greyson hadn't intended to commit suicide. Or so he told himself. But waking up after his ';cry for help' in the body of a wood-and-metal construct magically animated by Aster?the strange girl from school?was not a result he could have imagined. Aster's wild explanations of a quest to find the water of health that would cure her father seemed as unreal as her description of Errol's own half-dead existence, his consciousness stuck in an enchanted automaton while his real body was in a coma from which it might never wake. And of course, they would need to recruit a girl?a virgin, no less?who had been dead for thirty years, to lead them through something called the Pale, beyond which a bunch of magical kingdoms existed. Plus, the threat that Aster could turn him off like a light switch, sending him into a hellish oblivion, was a convincing incentive to cooperate. It all seemed quite mad: Either Aster was nuts, or Errol was hallucinating. But if it meant a new chance at life, he reckoned it was worth playing along.

The concluding volume in a series collecting the stories of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales.

Laser-sharp zingers and out-of-this-world puns pile up at an astronomical pace in this zero gravitas sci-fi spoof.

On the forbidding fringes of the tundra, where years are marked by seasons of snow, humans war with immortals in the name of their shared gods. Irjan, a human warrior, is ruthless and lethal, a legend among the Brethren of Hunters. But even legends grow tired and disillusioned. Scarred and weary of bloodshed, Irjan turns his back on his oath and his calling to hide away and live a peaceful life as a farmer, husband, and father. But his past is not so easily left behind. When an ambitious village priest conspires with the vengeful comrades Irjan has forsaken, the fragile peace in the Northlands of Davvieana is at stake. His bloody past revealed, Irjan's present unravels as he faces an ultimatum: return to hunt the immortals or lose his child. But with his son's life hanging in the balance, as Irjan follows the tracks through the dark and desolate snow-covered forests, it is not death he searches for, but life.

Fantasy spreads across the five boroughs in the first volume of a new anthology series collecting fantastic and extraordinary stories set in specific urban locales.

Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right. Theo, in turn, relies on Seth for mobility, and for ordinary vision looking forwards and backwards. Like everyone else in their world, they are symbionts, depending on each other to survive. In the universe containing Seths world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a ';dark cone' to the north and south. Seth can only face to the east (or the west, if he tips his head backwards). If he starts to turn to the north or south, his body stretches out across the landscape, and to rotate as far as north-north-east is every bit as impossible as accelerating to the speed of light. Every living thing in Seth's world is in a state of perpetual migration as they follow the sun's shifting orbit and the narrow habitable zone it creates. Cities are being constantly disassembled at one edge and rebuilt at the other, with surveyors mapping safe routes ahead. But when Seth and Theo join an expedition to the edge of the habitable zone, they discover a terrifying threat: a fissure in the surface of the world, so deep and wide that no one can perceive its limits. As the habitable zone continues to move, the migration will soon be blocked by this unbridgeable void, and the expedition has only one option to save its city from annihilation: descend into the unknown.

The third of five volumes collecting the stories of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales.

The first of five volumes collecting the stories of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales.