WisConChronicles (Vol 12)
edited by Isabel Schechter and Michi Trota
The twelfth volume of The WisCon Chronicles explores our understanding
of boundaries and bridges, and what they mean for us as individuals
and for our communities. This collection includes essays from
first-time WisCon attendees and former Guests of Honor, fans and
Tiptree/Otherwise Award-winning authors and editors, cis het and
LGBTQ+ attendees, affluent and less well-off, abled and disabled,
white and POC, young and old, parents and child-free, English speakers
and Spanish speakers, and hopefully more than just these categories
can capture.
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Unbecoming
by Lesley Wheeler
“Lesley Wheeler’s Unbecoming is a delightful, beautifully written
21st-century gothic novel set at a Virginia university and also in the
borderlands between the literal and the metaphorical, between the
realistic and the fantastic. Like all universities, this one is a
school for wizards and conjurers. Professors offer portals to
undiscovered countries and enchanted lands. Portals lead to demons and
horror and death too. Cynthia has recently become English Department
Chair. She’s perimenopausal and coming into her blood-magic, witch
woman power. The English Department is a tiny realm, fighting other
more powerful realms at the University that would swallow any
beleaguered humanities discipline. How do we survive each other,
resist the demons or easy escape to a deadly realm that could destroy
us? How do we conjure a path to the world we want? Lesley Wheeler
says, ask the poets and the painters!”
—Andrea Hairston, author of Will
do Magic For Small Change and The Master of Poisons
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Ancient Songs of Us
by Jean LeBlanc
The poems in Ancient Songs of Us suggest that no song is
“ancient,” that every story crosses time and transcends place to
remind us what it means to be human. Love, hatred, fury, longing,
ennui, sadness—these states of heart and mind in all their nuance hues
overflow from these poems.
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City of a Thousand Feelings
by Anya Johanna DeNiro
"Anya DeNiro’s City of a Thousand Feelings is a huge fantasy epic with
a deeply intimate relationship story at its heart. I love these heroic
trans characters and their struggle to find, or build, a better
world. This story left me with a renewed faith in our collective
ability to make it through the wilderness and the assaults of undead
angels, and to create better families as we do so."
—Charlie Jane Anders
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Mary Shelley Makes a Monster
by Octavia Cade
All our monsters are mirrors. And when Mary Shelley’s monster—built
from her life rather than her pen, born out of biography instead of
blood—outlives its mother, that monster goes looking for a
substitute. But all the monster really knows of women is that women
write, and so the search for a replacement takes it first to Katherine
Mansfield, and then to other women who know what mutilated things can
be made from ink and mirrors….
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The Little Animals
by Sarah Tolmie
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, a quiet linen draper in Delft, has discovered
a new world: the world of the little animals, or animalcules, that he
sees through his simple microscopes. These tiny creatures are
everywhere, even inside us. But who will believe him? Not his wife,
not his neighbors, not his fellow merchants—only his friend Reinier
De Graaf, a medical doctor. Then he meets an itinerant goose girl at
the market who lives surrounded by tiny, invisible voices. Are these
the animalcules also? Leeuwenhoek and the girl form a curious
alliance, and gradually the lives of the little animals infiltrate
everything around them: Leeuwenhoek’s cloth business, the art of his
friend Johannes Vermeer, the nascent sex trade, and people’s religious
certainties. But Leeuwenhoek also needs to cement his reputation as a
natural philosopher, and for that he needs the Royal Society of
London—a daunting challenge, indeed, for a Dutch draper who can't
communicate in Latin.
"[A] charming mannerist fairy tale and a provocative account of the
birth of our own modern worldview."
— Gary K. Wolfe,
Locus, May 2019
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Algorithmic Shapeshifting
by Bogi Takács
Algorithmic Shapeshifting is the first poetry collection of Bogi
Takács, winner of the Lambda award for editing Transcendent 2: The
Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, and finalist for the Hugo
and Locus awards. Algorithmic Shapeshifting includes poems from the
past decade and previously unpublished work. The scope of the pieces
extends from the present and past of Jewish life in Hungary and the
United States to the far-future, outer-space reaches of the
speculative—always with a sense of curiosity and wonder.
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The Green and Growing
by Erin K. Wagner
In this intriguing tale of the clash of two worlds and cultures,
Miquita, one of the forty-two daughters of Commander Hritrar, is sent
to the Ruburuii after their defeat at her father's hands. Hampered by
diplomatic etiquette and a thoroughly alien culture, Miquita struggles
to understand the destruction her father has leveled against the
cities and orchards that depend on a failing artificial
intelligence. Can she help repair the terrible damage her father's
forces have inflicted? Perhaps more importantly: should she?
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Sacred Summer
by Cassandra Rose Clarke
In the empty halls of a house on the edge of the woods, a dancer faces
the aftermath of a career-ending injury and subsequent divorce. Twenty
years earlier, on the land where her house would be built, two boys
died violently and mysteriously while recording a music video for
their band, leaving one survivor. Something sleeps in the woods beyond
the house, and when the dancer finds the last musician, it will start
to wake…
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The Adventure of the Naked Guide
by Cynthia Ward
The earth is hollow—a trackless primordial wilderness. It's also the
new front in the Great War. Here, the British spy Lucy
Harker—Dracula's daughter—must locate Britain's missing vampire
slayer—her own mother.
The Adventure of the Naked Guide is the third novella in the author's Blood-Thirsty Agent series.
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Articulation
by Cesi Davidson
“In these fanciful, often hilarious plays you will discover a
fantastic variety of character—familiar nursery-rhyme figures who
work in a ninety-nine-cent store and bet on horses, bananas and
radishes, who discuss their ill-fated destinies, birds who sing songs
of unrequited love, time travelers who skip about from Caribbean
present-day to slavery-era Virginia, bunnies who meet in support
groups.''
—from the Foreword by Zachary Sklar
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The Rampant
by Julie C. Day
Equal parts playful and heartbreaking, this apocalyptic novella offers
one-of-a-kind answers about the end of the world....Day conveys
genuine empathy for the two young women, who are still learning about
themselves (including a sweet crush of Gillian’s), while never
relinquishing the archaic fear instilled by the presence of ancient
gods and the televangelists who have smoothly pivoted into running the
Sumerian Revivalist Church. This clever and surprisingly fun take on
the rapture is the perfect theological horror story.
—Publishers Weekly
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Trapped in the R.A.W.
by Kate Boyes
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A young woman working alone in a small special collections library is
trapped in the building when invaders overrun her town. She barricades
the doors, peeks through a window, and watches in horror as people are
murdered outside. The invaders wear uniforms that cover them
completely, making it impossible for her to see their faces. However,
she realizes at once that they do not intend to subjugate the
population. They intend to annihilate it.
Trapped in the R.A.W. is a journal of the young woman’s
solitary struggle to protect the books while keeping herself fed,
hydrated, warm, and sane.
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Midnight at the Organporium
by Tara Campbell
What do a homicidal houseplant, an enchanted office picnic, sentient
fog, and the perfect piece of toast have in common? They’re all part
of the world of Midnight at the Organporium. At turns droll, wicked,
and surreal, these tales cover topics from white flight, to the
Princess and the Pea, to marriage in the afterlife. Visit Midnight at
the Organporium for a dose of twisted obsession, covert complicity,
and peculiar empowerment—and don’t forget to pick up your spare heart
while you’re there.
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Everything is Made of Letters
by Sofía Rhei
A man risks his life by carefully forging bibliographic references in
a parallel Barcelona; at the Cyclotech, a woman strives to keep the
storytelling different engine safe from ignorant hands that could get
words lost; off-planet, an interpreter gives an account of her
language learning process involving a realistic alien doll that claims
to be a sentient being… Words boast a heavy, at times disturbing,
weight of their own across these alternative realities in which
language rules supreme, fleshed out by the mind of one of the most
prolific writers in contemporary Spanish genre fiction.
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