In-Store: Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity w/ contributors!

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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 love in the Appalachian forests; 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 doppelgangers to dance-club cruising at the edge of the galaxy—Amplitudes: 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 future—or ten years from now.

Filled with brutal honesty, raw emotions, sexual escapades, and delightful whimsy, Amplitudes speaks to the longstanding tradition of queer fiction as protest. This essential collection serves as an evolving map of our celebrations, anxieties, wishes, pitfalls, and—most of all—our rallying cry that we're here, we're queer—and the future is ours!

Featuring stories by 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

Dominique Dickey is the author of the novella Redundancies & Potentials. Their short fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, and other venues. They are the creative director of Sly Robot Games, a D.C.-based indie press that makes tabletop roleplaying games about community, struggle, and finding hope in difficult circumstances. You can find their work at dominiquedickey.com.

Katharine Duckett is the award-winning author of Miranda in Milan, the Shakespearean fantasy novella debut that NPR calls "intriguing, adept, inventive, and sexy." Her short fiction has appeared in CRAFT, Reactor, and Uncanny, among many other publications, and has been featured in anthologies like Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, Some of the Best from Tor.com 2020, and Rebuilding Tomorrow: Anthology of Life After the Apocalypse. She served as the guest fiction editor for Uncanny's Disabled People Destroy Fantasy issue, and is an advisory board member for the Octavia Project, a Brooklyn nonprofit that empowers young women and trans and nonbinary youth to build bold new futures through the power of speculative fiction and STEM. A graduate of Hampshire College, she holds a Master of Arts in Disability Studies from the CUNY School of Professional Studies.

Meg Elison is a Hugo, Philip K. Dick and Locus award winning author, as well as a Nebula, Sturgeon, and Otherwise awards finalist. A prolific short story writer and essayist, Elison has been published in Scientific American, McSweeney’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She lives in Brooklyn.

Sam J. Miller's books have been called "must-reads" and "bests of the year" by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, and O: The Oprah Magazine, among others. They've also been banned in Florida, and stolen by AI. His short fiction has been published in places like The Kenyon Review, Vogue Italia, Tor.com, Asimov's, and more. He's received the Nebula, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Awards. He's also the last in a long line of butchers. Sam lives in New York City, and at samjmiller.com.

Nat X. Ray is a writer originally from Austin, Texas, and currently based in Brooklyn. "Trans World Takeover" is his first literary publication. Starting this fall, he will be pursuing an MFA from NYU's Creative Writing Program, where he plans to continue writing crazy stories about trans people.