Brit Mandelo ([info]britmandelo) wrote,
2011-12-08 10:10:00
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Beyond Binary TOC - Official Announcement!

Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction will be released by Lethe Press in May 2012 - and here's the official table of contents!

"Sea of Cortez" by Sandra McDonald
"Eye of the Storm" by Kelley Eskridge
"Fisherman" by Nalo Hopkinson
"Pirate Solutions" by Katie Sparrow
"'A Wild and a Wicked Youth'" by Ellen Kushner
"Prosperine When it Sizzles" by Tansy Rayner Roberts
"The Fairy Cony-Catcher" by Delia Sherman
"Palimpsest" by Catherynne M. Valente
"Another Coming" by Sonya Taaffe
"Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot" by Claire Humphrey
"The Ghost Party" by Richard Larson
"Bonehouse" by Keffy R. M. Kehrli
"Sex with Ghosts" by Sarah Kanning
"Spoiling Veena" by Keyan Bowes
"Self-Reflection" by Tobi Hill-Meyer
"The Metamorphosis Bud" by Liu Wen Zhuang
"Schrodinger's Pussy" by Terra LeMay


Putting this book together was a delight, and I'm deeply glad that Steve ([info]mroctober) gave me the chance to try my hand at editing a collection. I'm proud of the end results and I hope that this TOC represents a diverse spectrum of voices - and, of course, that when it makes its way out into the world, people enjoy it. Thank you a thousand times to my contributors, without whom there wouldn't be a book.
Tags: anthology, gender & sexuality, queer

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[info]mroctober

December 8 2011, 15:21:16 UTC 5 months ago

Wait, the book's not called Steve Berman presents...????

[info]britmandelo

December 8 2011, 19:25:18 UTC 5 months ago

You're wonderful.

[info]mroctober

5 months ago

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[info]britmandelo

5 months ago

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[info]moondancerdrake

December 8 2011, 15:42:45 UTC 5 months ago

I can't wait. Sounds great!

[info]britmandelo

December 8 2011, 19:25:27 UTC 5 months ago

Thank you!

[info]sovay

December 8 2011, 15:44:09 UTC 5 months ago

Cool!

[info]britmandelo

December 8 2011, 19:25:40 UTC 5 months ago

Thanks!

[info]readingthedark

5 months ago

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[info]britmandelo

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[info]aamcnamara

December 8 2011, 16:52:27 UTC 5 months ago

Yay! I look forward to reading it.

[info]britmandelo

December 8 2011, 19:25:55 UTC 5 months ago

I can't wait for it to be out. Thanks!

[info]keyboardcouch

December 8 2011, 19:33:32 UTC 5 months ago

Amazing toc. That definately goes on the to-buy list.

[info]britmandelo

December 8 2011, 19:42:46 UTC 5 months ago

Thank you so much! That's good to hear. *g*

[info]shweta_narayan

December 8 2011, 19:34:57 UTC 5 months ago

oh wow this looks wonderful!
I knew it would, but it's still great to see :)

[info]britmandelo

December 8 2011, 19:43:10 UTC 5 months ago

Thank you! I'm glad you like it.

[info]gwynnega

December 8 2011, 20:02:00 UTC 5 months ago

Looks wonderful!!

[info]britmandelo

December 9 2011, 02:17:48 UTC 5 months ago

Thanks!

[info]mercwriter

December 8 2011, 20:29:19 UTC 5 months ago

Oh, very nice. Looking forward to reading it. :)

[info]britmandelo

December 9 2011, 02:18:28 UTC 5 months ago

Thank you! (I can't wait for people to be able to read it; May seems so far away.)

[info]matociquala

December 8 2011, 20:36:56 UTC 5 months ago

Congrats!

[info]britmandelo

December 9 2011, 02:18:44 UTC 5 months ago

Thanks!

[info]mindlesstwitch

December 9 2011, 05:08:18 UTC 5 months ago

There are some books in your book... I heard you like books.

[info]britmandelo

December 9 2011, 15:20:46 UTC 5 months ago

Yes, yes I do.

[info]papersky

December 9 2011, 12:54:38 UTC 5 months ago

That sounds wonderful. Well done.

[info]britmandelo

December 9 2011, 15:20:57 UTC 5 months ago

Thank you!

[info]mynxii

December 9 2011, 15:38:06 UTC 5 months ago

Looks fantastic!! Congratulations to you, Lethe Press and all the contributing authors :)

[info]britmandelo

December 10 2011, 00:21:15 UTC 5 months ago

Thank you!

Anonymous

December 9 2011, 23:41:06 UTC 5 months ago

The book sounds great, I look forward to reading it. But... OK, please don't take this as a troll, because it's a genuine question. For a book about gender called 'Beyond Binary', doesn't it strike you as a little odd that only two of the authors are male, and (as far as I can tell from Googling) the rest are female? Is that really 'a diverse spectrum of voices'?

I'm just wondering if you got far more/better submissions from women than men, or what. I know it shouldn't matter, but it just looks ironic to me that a book supposedly about subverting the gender binary is almost entirely written by people of one gender.

Eh, this still reads a bit trollish. Feel free to delete the comment if you want. I'm planning to buy the book either way.

[info]britmandelo

December 10 2011, 00:16:24 UTC 5 months ago

Having thought about this for a minute, I won't delete it.

I do object to the premise, though. Being female-bodied does not mean identifying as a woman, for one thing. Another: how would having a "50/50" TOC do anything for disrupting the binary, either, in a dualistic construction like this one? I would be (and am) more concerned by the fact that there are no stories by writers who identify as intersex or agendered.

And for the answer - no, I actually don't find having only two men in the TOC ironic.

The reason for that is that I was more concerned with the content of the stories than how the writers identified. The "gender spread" in the stories themselves is as diverse as I could get with sixteen entries; the point of the anthology is not the authors' identification, since these aren't memoirs, but the stories that are in it, and who is represented in the stories.

(As for subs: many of the submissions by men were stories I loved, but they were gay stories, not genderqueer/bisexual/etc. stories; the theme was the deciding factor.)

[info]ellen_kushner

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[info]britmandelo

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[info]spacehawk

December 9 2011, 23:47:29 UTC 5 months ago

This looks great! I can't wait to read it!

By the way, "Spoiling Veena" first appeared over at Expanded Horizons back in our second issue and is available online here.

[info]britmandelo

December 10 2011, 00:16:44 UTC 5 months ago

Thanks!

[info]spacehawk

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[info]affinity8

December 10 2011, 00:55:23 UTC 5 months ago

Very nice TOC! I'm delighted to be included - thanks you to you and Mr. Steve Berman presents!

[info]britmandelo

December 10 2011, 01:13:30 UTC 5 months ago

No, thank you for the story. *g*

[info]quoththeravyn

December 13 2011, 01:19:39 UTC 5 months ago

OooooOOOooooo...

i want.

[info]britmandelo

December 13 2011, 20:49:37 UTC 5 months ago

Glad to hear it!

[info]quoththeravyn

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[info]smike__

December 14 2011, 07:56:39 UTC 5 months ago

to be honest, the first thing i thought of when i saw all the female authors in table of contents was of all the low budget female slash fic I see online.

then i saw it from a different point of view: most of the male fic ive read is sex, sex and more sex with no plot development and stock characters. maybe it's a good thing that there's hardly any male writers here! perhaps a female dominated comp will be more thoughtful and cerebral and less of a porn extravaganza.

Either way, can't wait to crack open the book and see what's inside.

[info]smike__

December 14 2011, 07:58:08 UTC 5 months ago

forgot to mention... i followed this link from Tor.com

[info]julieandrews

December 29 2011, 21:05:55 UTC 5 months ago

Are you planning anything special for the book at Wiscon?

[info]britmandelo

December 29 2011, 21:29:02 UTC 5 months ago

I do plan on attending, and would like to do a book party or something along those lines, if I can manage it!

[info]just_ann_now

December 29 2011, 23:08:24 UTC 5 months ago

That's definitely going on my To-Kindle list.

[info]britmandelo

December 30 2011, 00:42:17 UTC 5 months ago

Thank you!
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