Wilde Stories 2014: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590215001 ISBN 13: 9781590215005

Publisher: Lethe Press, 2014

Synopsis

Oscar Wilde said: ''I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.'' Thankfully, the authors featured in Wilde Stories 2014 possess the ability to create men on the page that love and risk and suffer and mourn, deeds that deserve telling despite the frailties of fictional flesh. Once more editor Steve Berman has collected a variety of stories that range from the fantastical to the eerie to surreal-yet all possess the spark of imagination that is what brings storytelling the closest to a divine act of wonder an individual can perform. Authors in this volume: Matthew Cheney, John Chu (his story ''The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere'' is a finalist for the Hugo Award), R.W. Clinger, Sean Eads, Eli Easton, Casey Hannan, Clayton Littlewood, Sam J. Miller (his story, ''57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides,'' won the Shirley Jackson Award!), J.E. Robinson, Damon Shaw, Cory Skerry, Robert Smith, Nghi Vo, and Kai Ashante Wilson.

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Berman owns a great many books, a great many of which are gay-themed and a great many of those are eerie and fantastical. Well, the stories, not so much the books themselves, but he does possess a book reported to turn any flower pressed between its pages into a cordial (he's never dared try because he fears getting the book wet) and a scandalous memoir penned by Didier de Grandin, the bastard gay son of Seabury Quinn's famous occult detective.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lethe Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1590215001
• ISBN 13: 9781590215005
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Berman Steve