Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity
anthology · First published 2025
<b>Revolutionary and visionary, these twenty-two speculative stories edited by Lambda, Nebula and Hugo finalist Lee Mandelo explore the vast potentialities of our queer and trans futures.</b> From self-styled knights fighting in dystopian city streets to conservationists finding love in the Appalachian forests; from social media posts about domestic “bliss” in a lottery-based, state-housing skyscraper to herding feral cats off of one’s scientific equipment; from street drugs that create doppelgangers to dance-club cruising at the edge of the galaxy — <i>Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity</i> interrogates the farthest borders of the sci-fi landscape to imagine how queer life will look centuries in the future — or ten years from now. Filled with brutal honesty, raw emotions, sexual escapades, and delightful whimsy, <i>Amplitudes</i> speaks to the longstanding tradition of queer fiction as protest. This essential collection serves as an evolving map of our celebrations, anxieties, wishes, pitfalls, and — most of all — our rallying cry that we're here, we're queer — and the future is ours! Inventive, moving, and hopeful, this fresh anthology contains never before published stories by some of our most prominent and emerging LGBTQIA+ writers.
