{"id":1141,"date":"2013-06-06T15:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T20:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2013-05-29T15:35:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T20:35:18","slug":"wilde-stories-2013-the-years-best-gay-speculative-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wilde-stories-2013-the-years-best-gay-speculative-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilde Stories 2013: The Year\u2019s Best Gay Speculative Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Picture71.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1135\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" alt=\"Cover of Wilde Stories 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Picture71.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wilde Stories 2013: The Year\u2019s Best Gay Speculative Fiction. Ed. by Steve Berman. Lethe Press, 2013. Paperback. 274p. $18. ISBN: 978-1-59021-131-1.<\/p>\n<p>Different subgenres of speculative fiction in these dozen stories provide a queer twist on past, present, and future from dystopian, technologically advanced futures to ghost stories set in a medical school supplied by grave-robbers, with a substantial amount of variety in between.<\/p>\n<p>Every one of this wide variety of stories was well done as the authors displayed a variety of writing styles and structures to their stories. Their prose ranged from clear and precise to beautiful and evocative.<\/p>\n<p>One particularly enjoyable story, Alex Jeffers\u2019 \u201cTattooed Love Boys,\u201d deals with the confusion created by two characters rapidly and inexplicably changing genders, pronouns, and embodiments. Rahul Kanakia creates an unsettlingly believable future in \u201cNext Door\u201d when squatters take over houses owned by people entirely plugged into the Internet and plagued by pesticide-resistant bedbugs. Hal London\u2019s \u201cSic Him, Hellhound! Kill! Kill!\u201d plunges into the frenzied mind of a love-struck werewolf and takes on the current obsession with pretty boy vampires. And \u201cRenfrew\u2019s Course\u201d by John Langan is a lovely meditation on the longevity of love and the persistence of mistrust.<\/p>\n<p>This short story collection is highly recommended for public libraries, particularly with patrons known for interest in queer literature and\/or speculative fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer: <strong>Kyle Lukoff<\/strong>, Librarian<\/p>\n<p>Corlears School, New York City<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilde Stories 2013: The Year\u2019s Best Gay Speculative Fiction. Ed. by Steve Berman. Lethe Press, 2013. Paperback. 274p. $18. ISBN: 978-1-59021-131-1. Different subgenres of speculative fiction in these dozen stories provide a queer twist on past, present, and future from dystopian, technologically advanced futures to ghost stories set in a medical school supplied by grave-robbers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}