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Transcendent 3: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction by Bogi Takács
3.75
I've had this one sitting around for a while, and I'm glad it picked it up! I did have a weird sense of deja vu though, because the second story in this collection ('Death You Deserve' by Ryler Knowles) is also included in 'Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic'. I recognized it almost immediately as it was one of my faves from that collection, and I had no idea it had been used in multiple anthologies!
some standouts for me were:
Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time by K.M Szpara - trans guy turned into a vampire, brings up interesting biological ideas re: vampirism and what a trans person being changed could look like
Heat Death of Western Human Arrogance by M. Téllez - follows a plant alien and her thoughts on her relationship with a human woman + plays with the idea of placing certain human frameworks on a race of beings very different from us
Minor Heresies by Ada Hoffmann - this one took a little longer to kick in for me, but when it did I quite enjoyed it! follows a human/alien hybrid who goes a little too far on a mission and sees things she shouldn't
Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue by Charlies Jane Anders - much more horror than most of the stories, about a trans woman kidnapped by a group that then forces her into a male body through a slow, terrifying process that will simultaneously "erase" her true self. really good shit, probably my fave of the whole collection
The Heart's Cartography by Susan Jane Bigelow - really sweet story of a trans girl meeting a time traveler
some standouts for me were:
Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time by K.M Szpara - trans guy turned into a vampire, brings up interesting biological ideas re: vampirism and what a trans person being changed could look like
Heat Death of Western Human Arrogance by M. Téllez - follows a plant alien and her thoughts on her relationship with a human woman + plays with the idea of placing certain human frameworks on a race of beings very different from us
Minor Heresies by Ada Hoffmann - this one took a little longer to kick in for me, but when it did I quite enjoyed it! follows a human/alien hybrid who goes a little too far on a mission and sees things she shouldn't
Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue by Charlies Jane Anders - much more horror than most of the stories, about a trans woman kidnapped by a group that then forces her into a male body through a slow, terrifying process that will simultaneously "erase" her true self. really good shit, probably my fave of the whole collection
The Heart's Cartography by Susan Jane Bigelow - really sweet story of a trans girl meeting a time traveler