Amplitudes

Revolutionary and visionary, these twenty-two speculative stories edited by Lambda, Nebula and Hugo finalist Lee Mandelo explore the vast potentialities of our queer and trans futures. From self-styled knights fighting in dystopian city streets to conservationists finding lovein theAppalachianforests; from social media posts about domestic ';bliss' in a lottery-based, state-housing skyscraper to herding feral cats off of one's scientific equipment; from street drugs that create doppelgangersto dance-club cruising at the edge of the galaxyAmplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity interrogates the farthest borders of the sci-fi landscape to imagine how queer life will look centuries in the futureor ten years from now. Filled with brutal honesty, raw emotions, sexual escapades, anddelightful whimsy, Amplitudes speaks to the longstanding tradition of queer fiction as protest. This essential collection serves as an evolving map of ourcelebrations, anxieties, wishes, pitfalls, andmost of allour rallying cry that were here, were queerand the future is ours! Inventive, moving, and hopeful, this fresh anthology contains never before published stories by some of our most prominent and emergingLGBTQIA+writers, including: Esther Alter *; Bendi Barrett *; Ta-wei Chi, trans. Ariel Chu *; Colin Dean *; Maya Deane *; Dominique Dickey *; Katharine Duckett *; Meg Elison *; Paul Evanby *; Aysha U. Farah *; Sarah Gailey *; Ash Huang *; Margaret Killjoy *; Wen-yi Lee *; Ewen Ma *; Jamie McGhee *; Sam J. Miller *; Aiki Mira, trans. CD Covington *; Sunny Moraine *; Nat X. Ray *; Neon Yang *; Ramez Yoakeim