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a+e 4ever Ilike Merey
Asher Machnik is a teenage boy cursed with a beautiful androgynous face. Guys punch him, girls slag him and by high school he’s developed an intense fear of being touched. Art remains his only escape from an otherwise… More
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Icarus 11 Steve Berman et al.
Our Winter 2011 issue features a chilling Victorian tale of revenge from Scot D. Ryersson, a weird tale of transformation by Rodello Santos & Damon Shaw, and a dystopian science-fiction story by Thomas Carl Sweterlitschan.… More
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Fairs’ Point: A Novel of Astreiant Melissa Scott
Gaylactic Spectrum Award winner
During Dog Moon, the chief entertainment in the great city of Astreiant, for nobles and commons alike, is the basket-terrier races at New Fair. This year, with spectacularly bad timing,… More
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Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant Melissa Scott et al.
The citizens of Astreiant have become obssessed by a new play, The Drowned Island, a lurid farrago of melodrama and innuendo. Pointsman Nicolas Rathe is not amused, however, at a real dead body found on the stage and must… More
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Icarus 18 Fall/Winter 2013 et al.
Fall and winter, when the world begins to sleep. Featuring stories by Molly Tanzer, James K. Moran, J. Daniel Stone, Ray Cluley, with a farewell letter from Steve Berman in this final double issue of Icarus with more content… More
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Bitter Waters Chaz Brenchley
Kirkus Best Books of 2015 Lambda Award Winner
The average adult male is approximately 60% water. Blood tastes salty as more than two thirds of the sodium circulating throughout your body is carried in arteries and veins.… More
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How to Be a Robot A. Merc Rustad
Step one: forget the convention and disregard the binary. Gender? Sexuality? Old words unsuited for new consciousness. The twenty-one stories in this book challenge the imagination as only acclaimed author A. Merc… More
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Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel Julian K. Jarboe
In this debut collection, named by Publishers Weekly one of the top-ten speculative fiction books of 2020, body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory and myth, loss and age, become elements… More
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Icarus 12 Steve Berman et al.
In this issue, the finale of Scot D. Ryersson’s Victorian-era dark fantasy novella, “The Arsenic Flower,” will not disappoint; our handsome friend across the pond, James Bennett, offers readers a story of fate and … More
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Before and Afterlives: Stories Christopher Barzak
Discover the haunting stories of Crawford Award-winning author Christopher Barzak in his new collection Before and Afterlives. These are tales of relationships with unearthly domesticity and eeriness: a woman … More
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Icarus 17: Summer 2013 Steve Berman et al.
What we do have for your viewing in Icarus 17 are several new stories: Christine Morgan’s “Masque of the Rue Paule,” is a clever pastiche of drag culture with a touch of the macabre; Nathan Tavares uses one of my favorite… More
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She Who Must Be Obeyed: Femme Dominant Lesbian Erotica D.L. King
Award-winning erotica editor D.L. King’s new lesbian anthology showcases dominant femmes and their submissive partners playing out vivid and unforgettable BDSM fantasies and trysts. Each of these eighteen… More
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Heiresses of Russ 2014 Melissa Scott et al.
A book such as this spins not only words but also whole worlds: eighteen of them, representing the best lesbian-themed stories of the fantastic or futuristic published the prior year: An artisan who tests the skills … More
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Cthulhu Fhtagn, Baby! and Other Cosmic Insolence William Ludwigsen
January 2006: 9781590210529 • 148 pp • trade paper/ebook
Cthulhu Fhtagn, Baby & Other Cosmic Insolence
Oscar Wilde wrote that “the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt … More
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Best Gay Stories 2012 Peter Dubé, editor
The many stories featured in this volume of Best Gay Stories focus on what we, as gay men have in common, what underlies and nourishes the roots of all that fabulous diversity. Stories about our shared experience of those… More
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Icarus 14: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction Steve Berman et al.
Fall 1012: Icarus 14, like the season of autumn, is more than storytelling around campfires and within the confines of attic bedrooms, but we DO have great stories by Alex Jeffers, Hal Duncan, David Pratt, and Guy Mark… More