I am very happy to share that “To Balance the Weight of Khalem,” my novelette about a magical onion and migration, will be reprinted in We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 edited by C.L. Clark and Charles Payseur, forthcoming from Neon Hemlock. The table of contents is FANTASTIC, and is reproduced in full below. I am so thrilled to share a table of contents with these excellent people. The magnificent cover is by Sajan Rai.
You can find out more, including how to preorder, at the Neon Hemlock website.
- “If You Take My Meaning” by Charlie Jane Anders (Tordotcom, February 26, 2020)
- “A Voyage to Queensthroat” by Anya Johanna DeNiro (Strange Horizons, August 2020)
- “Rat and Finch are Friends” by Innocent Chizaram Ilo (Strange Horizons, March 2020)
- “Salt and Iron” by Gem Isherwood (Podcastle, May 2020)
- “The Currant Dumas” by L.D. Lewis (Glitter + Ashes, edited by dave ring)
- “Everquest” by Naomi Kanakia (Lightspeed, October 2020)
- “Portrait of Three Women with an Owl” by Gwen C. Katz (The Future Fire, February 2020)
- “The Ashes of Vivian Firestrike” by Kristen Koopman (Glittership, May 2020)
- “To Balance the Weight of Khalem” by RB Lemberg (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2020)
- “Thin Red Jellies” by Lina Rather (Gigonotosaurus, February 2020)
- “Body, Remember” by Nicasio Andres Reed (Fireside, November 2020)
- “Escaping Dr. Markoff” by Gabriela Santiago (The Dark, March 2020)
- “The Last Good Time to Be Alive” by Waverly SM (Reckoning 4, edited byDanika Dinsmore and Arkady Martine)
- “Monsters Never Leave You” by Carlie St. George (Strange Horizons, June 2020)
- “The Wedding After The Bomb” by Brendan Williams-Childs (Catapult, April 2020)
- “8-Bit Free Will” by John Wiswell (Podcastle, November 2020)
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