Wilde Stories 2012: The Year's Best Gay Speculative FictionSteve Berman Prepare to skew your view of the world: where jinni in the clouds of a future Tel Aviv aren't spirits but powerful computer programs; where a suburban garden hiding unrecognizable bones; to a planet colony that outlaws color; or the night when a lonely lab tech finds a spambot flirting with him. The latest volume in the acclaimed Wilde Stories series has tales of hitchhikers on the run, dragons in the sky, swordsmen drawing their blades. These are stories fantastic and strange, otherworldly and eerie, but all feature gay men struggling with memories or lovers or simply the vicissitudes of life no matter how wild the world might be. |
Contents
The Arabs Prayer | 3 |
Fairy Tale | 17 |
Thou Earth Thou | 23 |
Hoffmann Godzilla and Me | 43 |
Color Zap | 55 |
All Smiles | 65 |
The Peacock | 79 |
Ashes in the Water | 91 |
Filling up the Void | 121 |
The House by the Park | 137 |
Pinion | 165 |
We Do Not Come in Peace | 175 |
The Duke of Riverside | 199 |
The Contributors | 221 |
The Editor | 225 |
Back cover | 226 |
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