Obituary – Queer Sci Fi

The Last “Wilde Stories” Reviewed – Boogieman in Lavender

November 13, 2018November 13, 2018 by Jeff Baker

“Wilde Stories 2018” reviewed. By Jeff Baker Author’s note: My full-fledged, full-length review of “Wilde Stories 2018” will be appearing in Lambda Literary, so here is a truncated variation on the theme. ——jb The final “Wilde Stories” is out, and is well worth the price. There are delights for LGBT readers, readers of gay-themed literature or just plain readers of speculative fiction. (Groups whose readership does not seem to overlap, laments editor Steve Berman in a reflective Afterward.) The authors include names like Matthew Bright (whose stories … Read more

OBITUARY: Ursula Le Guin Passes into the Long Night

January 24, 2018 by scott

Writer Ursula K. Le Guin, whose work spanned multiple genres and categories including science fiction, fantasy, poetry and essays, died on Monday (Jan. 22) at the age of 88, the New York Times reports. The exact cause of death has not been announced, but Le Guin’s son told the Times that his mother had been in poor health for months. Over a career that spanned more than five decades, Le Guin authored “seven books of poetry, twenty-two novels, over a hundred short stories (collected in eleven volumes), four collections of essays, twelve books for children, and four volumes of translation,” … Read more