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Transcendent 4
The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction
2019
First Published
4.14
Average Rating
282
Number of Pages
A non-binary teenager may be from a small town but they remember at least a dozen past lives; a young trans woman auditions as an anime voice actor while the world is ending; in a future of constant change and transformation, one person is hesitant to undergo the next metamorphosis; a trans man comes back home to discover his parents have added to the household an android that has his deadface installed. Award-winning editor Bogi Takács has assembled a stellar line-up of stories that explore the frontiers of gender - using the imaginative tools of speculative fiction.
Avg Rating
4.14
Number of Ratings
51
5 STARS
45%
4 STARS
35%
3 STARS
14%
2 STARS
0%
1 STARS
6%
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Authors

H. Pueyo
Author · 9 books

Publishes longer fiction as Hache Pueyo. H. Pueyo is an Argentine-Brazilian writer and translator. She was nominated for two Utopia Awards, and has won an Otherwise Fellowship for her work with gender in speculative fiction. Her short stories were published in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, among others. Her bilingual collection A STUDY IN UGLINESS & OUTRAS HISTÓRIAS (Lethe) came out in 2022, and her novella BUT NOT TOO BOLD (Tordotcom) is scheduled to Fall 2024.

Bogi Takács
Bogi Takács
Author · 11 books
Bogi Takács is a Hungarian Jewish author who writes short-form speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction and weird unclassifiables. Eir work has been published in a variety of venues like Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Apex, Lightspeed and more.
Innocent Chizaram Ilo
Author · 1 book

Innocent Chizaram Ilo is an Igbo author. They live in Lagos. They won the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (African Region), and the 2021 Nommo Short Story prize.

Andrew Joseph White
Andrew Joseph White
Author · 10 books
Andrew Joseph White is a queer, trans author from Virginia, where he grew up falling in love with monsters and wishing he could be one too. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University in 2022. Andrew writes about trans folks with claws and fangs, and what happens when they bite back. He can be found at andrewjosephwhite.com or on Twitter and Instagram at @AJWhiteAuthor.
Everett Maroon
Everett Maroon
Author · 4 books

Everett Maroon is a memoirist, pop culture commentator, and speculative fiction writer. He has a B.A. in English from Syracuse University and went through an English literature master’s program there. He is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association; Bumbling into Body Hair was a finalist in their 2010 literary contest for memoir. Everett writes about writing and living in the Northwest at trans/plant/portation. He has written for Bitch Magazine, GayYA.org, RH RealityCheck, Original Plumbing, and Remedy Quarterly. He has had short stories published by SPLIT Quarterly and Twisted Dreams Magazine, and has a short story, "Cursed" in The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, from Topside Press. Bumbling into Body Hair is published by Booktrope Editions. His forthcoming young adult novel, The Unintentional Time Traveler, is forthcoming from Booktrope in the summer of 2013. Everett lives in Walla Walla, Washington, with his partner and baby son. He is originally from Hightstown, New Jersey, graduating from McCorristin Catholic High School.

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