Overview
Twenty-two captivating stories where queer culture and fey folklore meetThe legends of Fairyland tell that one should never taste the food or sip the drink, or else risk being caught there forever. But the tempting morsels in So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction are irresistible! Lambda Award-nominated editor Steve Berman brings together acclaimed fantasy writers with some of the brightest names in LGBT fiction to create tales that are moving and magical. These stories of romance and grief, adolescence and identity, struggle and hope will enchant readers who long for a fantastic escape—and a wonderful twist! One sample of this bewitching treat is sure to trap you in its pages!
From the pains of loss in Holly Black's "The Coat of Stars" to dealing with issues of identity in Richard Bowes's "The Wand's Boy" to Melissa Scott's look at the dangers of love in "Mister Seeley" So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction takes you into worlds that are at once amazing and familiar. With tales that tear and tug at the heart but never cease to enchant, this exciting and unique collection will long last in the minds of readers.
Other authors featured in So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction include:
• Tom Cardamone
• Catherine Lundoff
• Craig Laurance Gidney
• Ruby deBrazier and Cassandra Clare
• Sarah Monette
• Kenneth D. Woods
• Elspeth Potter
• Aynjel Kaye
• Laurie J. Marks
• Christopher Barzak
• M. Kate Havas
• Luisa Prieto
• Carl Vaughn Frick
• Delia Sherman
• Sean Meriwether
• Lynne Jamneck
• Eugie Foster
• Joshua Lewis
• Eric Andrews-Katz
Well-written and engaging, So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction is fantasy at its delightful best.
Editorials
Green Man Review
SOMETHING MORE THAN A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES. Perhaps it's the connection with the faeries of folklore that causes this particular anthology to take on a little more depth, a little more meaning, a little more richness than are apparent at first glance. . . . BERMAN DESERVES CONGRATULATIONS, and if he wants to do another volume, it will find a ready audience here.Publishers Weekly
Despite its provocative title and aggressive opening vignette, sex and sexuality fade into the background of Berman's quiet compilation of fantasy tales. The modern urban and suburban settings that dominate the anthology may be partly responsible. Two of the 22 stories feature New York backdrops, and a number of others occur in unnamed cities that might as well be the Big Apple. Most tales also feature classic Shakespearean or Celtic-inspired faerie folk, though Eugie Foster's "Year of the Fox" and Craig Laurance Gidney's "A Bird of Ice" draw effectively on Asian motifs, and Christopher Barzak nods toward Egyptian myth in "Isis in Darkness." The tone is mostly light, often with more than a touch of ironic humor, as in Elspeth Potter's "Detox"; hauntingly tragic romances from Kenneth D. Woods ("The Kings of Oak and Holly") and Laurie J. Marks ("How the Ocean Loved Margie") provide some ballast. Neither pornographic (despite a handful of explicit sex scenes) nor militant, this anthology is wholly readable and likely to engage general readers as well as its target audience. (Nov.)
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