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by Steve Berman

ePub Wilde Stories 2008: The Best of the Year's Gay Speculative Fiction (Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction) download
Author:
Steve Berman
ISBN13:
978-1590210772
ISBN:
1590210778
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Publisher:
Lethe Press (June 13, 2008)
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Literature & Fiction
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Wilde Stories 2008 book.

Wilde Stories 2008 book. Named after one of the founding fathers of gay speculative fiction, Wilde Stories is a new annual anthology that offers readers the best of such As such literary movements as interstitial and slipstream gain momentum, more and more authors interweave their traditional stories with gay themes as coming out, homophobia, and self-as-other, with a bit of the strange and weird.

Wilde Stories 2008 are all well-written short works, dealing with some sort of supernatural or other-worldy force. Way to wild for me. Some of the stories were just way out there. Not as fun to read as I had wished. Named after one of the founding fathers of gay speculative fiction, Wilde Stories is a new annual anthology that offers readers the best of such stories from the prior year. Includes the winner of the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for best queer-themed short story.

These are tales that range from the horrorific (Lee Thomas' "I'm Your Violence") to the surreal (Sven Davisson's "Dim Star Descried") to the fantastical ("Firooz and His Brother" by Alex Jeffers). Many of the authors included have won awards for their fiction, and their stories seek to press new boundaries of loneliness, loss and love between men and monsters (and those men who happen to be monsters).

In Wilde Stories 2013, he has gathered together a strong collection of writing that forms a sometimes eerie, always satisfying and often emotionally gratifying encounter with gay speculative fiction

In Wilde Stories 2013, he has gathered together a strong collection of writing that forms a sometimes eerie, always satisfying and often emotionally gratifying encounter with gay speculative fiction. The stories contained in this volume are diverse, but all refer to the long history of beauties and beasts at the centre of much traditional speculative fiction, such as werewolves and sea monsters. The stories all manage to capture the strangely erotic quality of the beast's desire for the human and the human's fear and fascination with the beauty of the beast

Named after one of the founding fathers of gay speculative fiction, Wilde Stories is a new annual anthology that offers readers the best of such stories from the prior year.

Named after one of the founding fathers of gay speculative fiction, Wilde Stories is a new annual anthology that offers readers the best of such stories from the prior year. ISBN13: 9781590210772.

As such literary movements as interstitial and slipstream gain momentum, more and more authors interweave their traditional stories with gay themes as coming out, homophobia, and self-as-other, with a bit of the.

As such literary movements as interstitial and slipstream gain momentum, more and more authors interweave their traditional stories with gay themes as coming out, homophobia, and self-as-other, with a bit of the strange and weird. Named after one of the founding fathers of gay speculative fiction, Wilde Stories is a new annual anthology that offers readers the best of such stories from the prior year

of a boy and his dog ever written, a forbidden encounter between prison guard and inmate, and pirates encountering a fabled living island

Then you’re in luck-because Wilde Stories: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction has just been .

Then you’re in luck-because Wilde Stories: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction has just been published! .

series Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction. These are tales that range from the horrorific (Lee Thomas' "I'm Your Violence") to the surreal (Sven Davisson's "Dim Star Descried") to the fantastical ("Firooz and His Brother" by Alex Jeffers). Many of the authors included have won awards for their fiction, and their stories seek to press new boundaries of loneliness, loss and love between men and monsters (and those men who happen to be monsters)

As such literary movements as interstitial and slipstream gain momentum, more and more authors interweave their traditional stories with gay themes as coming out, homophobia, and self-as-other, with a bit of the strange and weird. Named after one of the founding fathers of gay speculative fiction, Wilde Stories is a new annual anthology that offers readers the best of such stories from the prior year. Editor Steve Berman, a finalist himself for both the Lambda Literary and Andre Norton Awards, has collected an engaging selection of the fantastical, the strange, and the scary from such notable authors as Victor J. Banis, Hal Duncan, Joel Lane, and Lee Thomas.
  • It is a Damn shame that many people will never read this book. All of the stories were great and a few were worthy (in my humble opinion) of being in a years best collection. I have read literally hundreds (yes I'm telling the truth) of anthologies and this has been one of the best. If you love short fiction this is definitely one you should read. I know I will be getting the rest of this series and any more that may come along. Please just believe me, these stories are great. They made me laugh, shiver in horror, and even brought a tear to my eye. I could say more but I think I'll let the stories speak for themselves.

  • Way to wild for me. Some of the stories were just way out there. Not as fun to read as I had wished.

  • Reviewing an anthology of short stories by different authors reminds me of Forest Gump's box of chocolates: You may find some you really like, perhaps some you find awful to your taste, others that are OK but you can do without. Such is my reaction to this collection.

    I thought it started off with great promise, with James Currier's "The Woman in the Window," dealing with a haunted snow globe and its effects on the family of the person who acquired it. Very "Twilight Zone-ish," in a good way! I also like Joshua Lewis' sweet "So Much More Than Twenty," about a single gay dad who tells his teenage daughter stories about his encounter with a fairy in the forest. Lee Thomas spins a very creative "An Apiary of White Bees," which had me alert for buzzing sounds for a week afterward. And I would have liked to have read a longer version of Victor Banis' "The Emerald Mountain," which I felt could have easily been developed into an engrossing full-length novel. With one other exception, the rest of the stories were rather dull, in my opinion, though they could be viewed as a distraction, whether or not worth the time. The only one I could not get, despite two attempted readings, was "The Island of the Pirate Gods" by Hal Duncan, which was simply too disjointed and confusing (narration jumps between characters, dialogue isn't identified as to who is speaking, etc.) to follow; your mileage may vary.

    Editor Steve Berman starts the book off with a preface tying the genre of "speculative fiction" to Oscar Wilde (and I don't really agree with, although his work did definitely "push the envelope" at the time), and a perhaps-valid theory that gay men may self-identify with the "strange and weird" (as perceived by others) characters in the stories. Certainly interesting as a change of pace, if nothing else. I give the anthology a collective three stars out of five.