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A review by erinys
Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction by Lee Mandelo
5.0
This was one of several books I picked up recently while trolling the library system for queer speculative fiction. "Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction" was edited by Brit Mandelo and released in 2012.
I cracked the cover of this and was immediately struck by the high quality of the stories. I'm not sure about the process of selection, but I suspect that most of these stories are re-prints and that the editor was taking the absolute cream of an already distilled crop of excellent fiction.
The Table of Contents features some genuinely stellar authors, including Kelly Eskridge, Nalo Hopkinson, Catherine Valente, Liu Zhen Wuang, Delia Sherman, and Ellen Kushner.
Side note: a lot of these stories of gender-fluid identity are also openly erotic. They deal very frankly with same-sex desire, as well as desires that don't have such easy labels.
Overall I'm really glad I picked this one up, and it is one of the better queer anthologies I've read.
I cracked the cover of this and was immediately struck by the high quality of the stories. I'm not sure about the process of selection, but I suspect that most of these stories are re-prints and that the editor was taking the absolute cream of an already distilled crop of excellent fiction.
The Table of Contents features some genuinely stellar authors, including Kelly Eskridge, Nalo Hopkinson, Catherine Valente, Liu Zhen Wuang, Delia Sherman, and Ellen Kushner.
Side note: a lot of these stories of gender-fluid identity are also openly erotic. They deal very frankly with same-sex desire, as well as desires that don't have such easy labels.
Overall I'm really glad I picked this one up, and it is one of the better queer anthologies I've read.