Free (Kindle DRM-free) Wilde Stories 2008 [Award-Nom LGBT Sci-Fi/Fantasy Collection]

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Wilde Stories 2008: The Best of the Year's Gay Speculative Fiction edited by Andre Norton Award-finalist Steve Berman (ISFDB, Wikipedia) is the gay male-focused science fiction/fantasy/horror annual collection of Exactly What It Says In The Title, free courtesy of LGBT specialty publisher Lethe Press (Wikipedia).

This was a Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2009 in the sf/fantasy/horror category (Wikipedia, this is the major North American LGBT general literature aegis award), and one of the stories within it won the sfnal genre-dedicated Gaylactic Spectrum Award (Wikipedia) as well.

Currently free (and DRM-free), probably just for the rest of the day @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much every other place worldwide, since this is being done as a KDP Select exclusive-or-else thing).

If you happen to like the stories and wish to read more such, Lethe's other Wilde Stories annual collections are couponable @ Kobo (when not yet yanked for KDP Select exclusive-or-else-ization), and their corresponding annual lesbian female-themed best-of sister collections are the Heiresses of Russ series co-edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft (ISFDB), Melissa Scott (ISFDB, Wikipedia) and others, also couponable @ Kobo.

Alas, they do not, from the looks of it, yet have best-of bisexual or transgender speculative fiction collections, probably for lack of adequate volume of any material, much less sufficiently quality stuff, but give it time…

And this has been the selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.

Because sfnal best-of stories with non-stereotypical LGBT characters and themes are incredibly Relevant To My Interests™ as a bisexual speculative fiction lover (no, not that kind of lover, thank you very much), and it's also very apropos as a June offering for the official LGBT Pride Month (at least for our neigbours to the south, according to the Library of Congress).

Enjoy!

Description
As such literary movements as interstitial and slipstream gain momentum, more and more authors interweave their traditional stories with gay themes as coming out, homophobia, and self-as-other, with a bit of the strange and weird.

Named after one of the founding fathers of gay speculative fiction, Wilde Stories is a new annual anthology that offers readers the best of such stories from the prior year.

Editor Steve Berman, a finalist for both the Lambda Literary and Andre Norton Awards, has collected an engaging selection of the fantastical, the strange, and the scary from such notable authors as Victor J. Banis, Hal Duncan and Lee Thomas. Includes the winner of the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for best queer-themed short story.

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Now a repeat freebie.

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Repeat freebie again.

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Now a repeat freebie for Pride Month again.