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Mexico City Noir ed. Paco Ignacio Taibo, II; translated by Achy Obejas (Akashic Books, February 2010, 978-1-933354-90-3, $15.95, 174pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir] 11 · Snow White vs. Dr. Frankenstein · Paco Ignacio Taibo, II · in 21 · Part I: Above the Law 23 · I’m Nobody · Eduardo Antonio Parra; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Narvarte. translated from the Spanish. 36 · Private Collection · Bernardo Fernández; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Vallejo. translated from the Spanish. 44 · The Corner · Paco Ignacio Taibo, II; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Doctores. translated from the Spanish. 54 · The Unsmiling Comedian · F. G. Haghenbeck; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Condesa. translated from the Spanish. 71 · Part II: Dead Men Walking 73 · Bang! · Juan Hernández Luna; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Roma. translated from the Spanish. 82 · Judas Burning · Eugenio Aguirre; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Calle Tacuba. translated from the Spanish. 88 · Violeta Isn’t Here Anymore · Myriam Laurini; translated by Achy Obejas · nv; set in Hipódromo. translated from the Spanish. 113 · Outside the Door · Óscar de las Borbolla; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Barrio Unknown. translated from the Spanish. 119 · Part III: Suffocation City 121 · A Squirrel Without a Tree · Rolo Diez; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Centro Histórico. translated from the Spanish. 130 · God Is Fanatical, Hija · Eduardo Monteverde; translated by Achy Obejas · nv; set in San Fernando. translated from the Spanish. 153 · Of Cats and Murderers · Victor Luis González; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Colonia del Valle. translated from the Spanish. 166 · RENO · Julia Rodríguez; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Buenos Aires. translated from the Spanish. 172 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction ed. Bogi Takács (Lethe Press, October 22, 2017, 978-1-59021-662-0, $18.00, 206pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. · Introduction · Bogi Takács · in · Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy · Charlie Jane Anders · nv Drowned Worlds ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris, 2016 · Skerry-Bride · Sonya Taaffe · ss Lakeside Circus Summer 2014 · Transitions · Gwen Benaway · ss Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time ed. Hope Nicholson, Bedside Press, 2016 · This Is Not a Wardrobe Door · A. Merc Rustad · ss Fireside Magazine #29, January 2016 · Three Points Masculine · An Owomoyela · ss Lightspeed #72, May 2016 · The L7 Gene · Jeanne Thornton · ss Wired (online) December 13 2016 · Rhizomatic Diplomacy · Vajra Chandrasekera · ss An Alphabet of Embers ed. Rose Lemberg, Stone Bird Press, 2016 · The Pigeon Summer · Brit Mandelo · ss Tor.com May 11 2016 · The Road, and the Valley, and the Beasts · Keffy R. M. Kehrli · ss Clockwork Phoenix 5 ed. Mike Allen, Mythic Delirium Books, 2016 · About a Woman and a Kid · M. Téllez · ss Procyon Press Science Fiction Anthology 2016 ed. Jeanne Thornton, Procyon Press, 2016 · Sky and Dew · Holly Heisey · ss Amazon Digital, February 2016, as by Novae Caelum · The Nothing Spots Where Nobody Wants to Stay · K. Tait Jarboe · ss Procyon Press Science Fiction Anthology 2016 ed. Jeanne Thornton, Procyon Press, 2016 · Lisa’s Storie: Zombie Apocalypse · Gillian Ybabez · ss gillian-ybabez.com May 31 2016 (+17) · Happy Regards · RoAnna Sylver · ss The Library Ghost and Happy “Regards” by RoaAnna Sylver, RoaAnna Sylver, 2017 · The Way You Say Good-Night · Toby MacNutt · ss Ligature Works September 2016 · Her Sacred Spirit Soars · S. Qiouyi Lu · ss Strange Horizons July 18 2016

Transcendent 3: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction ed. Bogi Takács (Lethe Press, November 1, 2018, 978-1-59021-706-1, $18.00, xiv+246pp, tp, an, cover by L. Stiegman)     Details taken from online listing. · Introduction · Bogi Takács · in · The Chameleon’s Gloves [The Machineries of Empire] · Yoon Ha Lee · nv Cosmic Powers ed. John Joseph Adams, Saga Press, 2017 · Death You Deserve · Ryley Knowles · ss Nerve Endings ed. Tobi Hill-Meyer, Instar Books, 2017 · Fire Fills the Belly · Noa Josef Sperber · ss Brave Boy World ed. Michael D. Takeda, Pink Narcissus Press, 2017 · Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time · K. M. Szpara · nv Uncanny Magazine #16, May/June 2017 · Heat Death of Western Human Arrogance · M. Téllez · ss Meanwhile, Elsewhere ed. Cat Fitzpatrick & Casey Plett, Topside Press, 2017 · Praying to the God of Small Chances · L. Chan · ss Arsenika #1, Spring 2017 · The Mouse · Larissa Glasser · ss Wicked Haunted ed. Scott T. Goudsward, Daniel G. Keohane & David Price, NEHW Press, 2017 · Cooking with Closed Mouths · Kerry Truong · ss GlitterShip Winter 2017 · World of the Three · Shweta Narayan · nv Lightspeed #85, June 2017 · A Spell to Signal Home · A. C. Buchanan · ss GlitterShip Spring 2017 · Feed · Rivers Solomon · ss (r) · Hello, World · Polenth Blake · ss Patreon.com/polenth 2017 · A Splendid Goat Adventure · Rose Lemberg · ss Patreon.com/rblemberg September 26 2017 · A Complex Filament of Light · S. Qiouyi Lu · ss Anathema: Spec from the Margins #1, April 2017 · Minor Heresies · Ada Hoffmann · ss Ride the Star Wind ed. C. Dombrowski & Scott Gable, Broken Eye Books, 2017 · The Heavy Things · Julian Jarboe · ss 2017 · Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue · Charlie Jane Anders · nv Boston Review Fall 2017 · The Worldless · Indrapramit Das · ss Lightspeed #82, March 2017 · The Heart’s Cartography · Susan Jane Bigelow · ss Lightspeed #84, May 2017

Transcendent 4: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction ed. Bogi Takács (Lethe Press, October 6, 2019, 978-1-59021-676-7, $20.00, 266pp, tp, an, cover by August-Lain Weickert)     Details taken from online listing. · Introduction · Bogi Takács · in · Ad Astra per Aspera · Nino Cipri · ss Capricious #9, January 2018 · The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births · José Pablo Iriarte · nv Lightspeed #92, January 2018 · You Inside Me · Tori Curtis · ss GlitterShip Autumn 2017/Winter 2018 · Sphexa, Start Dinosaur · Nibedita Sen · ss Robot Dinosaur Fiction! August 3 2018 · Assistance · Kathryn DeFazio · ss previously available as an audio download from Escape Pod, March 29, 2018. · Ports of Perceptions · Izzy Wasserstein · ss GlitterShip Autumn 2017/Winter 2018 · The Art of Quilting · Jes Rausch · ss Survivor ed. Mary Anne Mohanraj & J. J. Pionke, Lethe Press, 2018 · The Face of the Waters · Sonya Taaffe · ss Forget the Sleepless Shores by Sonya Taaffe, Lethe Press, 2018 · Into the Gray · Margaret Killjoy · ss Tor.com April 25 2018 · The God of Small Chances · L. Chan · ss Augur Magazine v1 #1, 2018 · Sandals Full of Rainwater · A. E. Prevost · nv Capricious #9, January 2018 · Of Warps and Wefts · Innocent Chizaram Ilo · ss Strange Horizons March 5 2018 · Control · Davian Aw · ss Anathema: Spec from the Margins #5, August 2018 · Nuclear Disassociations · Aqdas Aftab · ss Vulture Bones November 2018 · Apotheosis · Catherine Kim · ss 2018 · Therapeutic Memory Reversal · Everett Maroon · ss Trans/plant/portation March 23 2018 · The Sixth World · Kylie Ariel Bemis · ss Nameless Woman ed. Ellyn Pe^n~a, Jamie Berrout & Venus Selenite, Trans Women Writers Collective, 2018 · When the South Wind Whispers · H. Pueyo · ss Clarkesworld #146, November 2018 · Chokechain · Andrew Joseph White · ss medium.com November 13 2018 · Ghosts · Blue Neustifter · ss Twitter 2018, as by Azure Husky

Brave Boy World: A Transman Anthology ed. Michael D. Takeda (Pink Narcissus Press, February 2017, 978-1-939056-12-2, $17.00, 332pp, tp, oa, cover by Dante Saunders)     Details taken from online listing. · Introduction · Michael D. Takeda · in · According to His Substance · K. C. Ball · ss Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities by K. C. Ball, Hydra House, 2012 · Spoiling Veena · Keyan Bowes · ss Expanded Horizons #2, November 2008 · Fluidity · Eric Del Carlo · ss Futurismic (online) October 2009 · My Brother, the Horsehead · Rafael S. W. · ss · Liner Notes for the Crash · Brit Mandelo · ss · Boy Rescue · Ace Lo · ss · Sindali · Deven Balsam · ss · Deadhead Chemistry · J. Daniel Stone · ss · Choice Cuts · Edd Vick · ss Electric Velocipede #6, Spring 2004 · Robinson Faces the Music · Ryan Kelly · ss · The Three Ways of the Sword Man · Jaap Boekestein · ss · LGB(T) · Maverick Smith · ss · Flipside · Nicole Jinks-Fredrick · ss · The Next Great Race · Jes Rausch · ss · Coyote Dog Bitten · Dave Riser · ss · The Tree Planters · Everett Maroon · ss · If You Can · Bo Balder · ss · Trans Mare Cognitum · Michael Takeda · ss · Fire Fills the Belly · Noa Josef Sperber · ss · Edge of Everything · M. Raoulee · ss

Bizarre Bazaar 92 ed. Stanislaus Tal--- see under Bizarre Bazaar #1, June 1992.

Bizarre Bazaar 93 ed. Stanislaus Tal--- see under Bizarre Bazaar #2, March 1993.

Bizarre Dreams ed. Stanislaus Tal & Caro Soles--- see under Caro Soles.

Unquiet on the Eastern Front by Wole Talabi (Subterranean Press, October 28, 2024, no ISBN, free, ebook, ss, cover by Manzi Jackson)

Africanfuturism ed. Wole Talabi (Brittle Paper, October 19, 2020, vi+89pp, ebook, oa)     Details taken from online listing. i · Introduction · Wole Talabi · in iii · Africanfuturism Defined · Nnedi Okorafor · in 1 · Egoli · T. L. Huchu · ss 8 · Sunrise · Nnedi Okorafor · ss World Literature Today September 2015 16 · Yat Madit · Dilman Dila · ss 29 · Rainmaker · Mazi Nwonwu · ss 42 · Behind Our Irises · Tlotlo Tsamaase · ss 52 · Fort Kwame · Derek Lubangakene · ss 65 · Fruit of the Calabash · Rafeeat Aliyu · ss 75 · Lekki Lekki · Mame Bougouma Diene · ss

Lights Out: Resurrection ed. Wole Talabi (TheNakedConvos, October 13, 2016, 978-1-5393-4272-4, $7.00, 137pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 5 · Introduction · Wole Talabi · in 9 · Daughter Dearest · Chioma Odukwe · ss a shorter version was previously published in Lights Out: Monsters (TheNakedConvos, 2014). 17 · Shame · Nerine Dorman · nv Lost Children by Nerine Dorman, self-published, 2014 39 · Sleep Papa, Sleep · Suyi Davies Okungbowa · ss 52 · Blood and Fire · Sawaleh · ss 2014 58 · Koi-Koi · Raymond Elenwoke · ss 69 · Eaters of Flesh · Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso · ss Haunted Grave and Other Stories by Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso, Parallel Universe Publications, 2016 a different version of this story was originally published in Lost Tales from the Mountain ed. Abigail Kern & Riley Guyer (Mountain Spring House, 2014). 83 · Afin · Edwin Okolo · ss a different version of this story was originally published in Lights Out: Twisted Fairytales (TheNakedConvos, 2013). 89 · Hadiza · Nuzo Onoh · nv The Reluctant Dead by Nuzo Onoh, Canaan-Star Publishing, 2014 a different version of this story was originally published in Lights Out: Monsters (TheNakedConvos, 2014). 107 · The Wild Dogs · Mandisi Nkomo · nv 126 · Udu · Damilare Falowo · ss Lights Out: Nightmare Theatre ed. Wole Talabi, TheNakedConvos, 2012

City of Love ed. Daniel Talbot (Dell Books First Edition, 1955, 45, 25¢, 255pp, pb, an, cover by David Shaw)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. Stories and articles about Paris 6 · Introduction · Janet Flanner · in 9 · Tip on a Dead Jockey · Irwin Shaw · nv The New Yorker March 6 1954 51 · Portraits of Some Mistresses · Charles Baudelaire · es Paris Spleen, New Directions, 1947 56 · Paris! City of Love · Colette · ar Holiday 1953 65 · Mademoiselle Claude · Henry Miller · ss The New Review August/September 1931 75 · Rue de Seine · Jacques Prévert · pm Poetry 1949 78 · My English Suit in Paris · Ludwig Bemelmans · ss Town & Country March 1939 89 · Tears in the Tuileries · Samuel Putnam · ts Paris Was Our Mistress, Viking, 1947 102 · Counterfeit · Charles Baudelaire · vi Paris Spleen, New Directions, 1947 104 · The Father · Guy de Maupassant · ss Complete Works by Guy de Maupassant, St. Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“Le père”, Gil Blas, November 20, 1883 as by Maufrigneuse). 114 · The Left Bank · J. K. Huysmans · ss Down Stream and Other Works by J. K. Huysmans, Pascal Covici, 1927 122 · Aunt Tittie · Noel Coward · nv To Step Aside by Noel Coward, Doubleday, 1939 163 · Take for Example This · e. e. cummings · pm 1925 165 · Hemingway in Paris · Gertrude Stein · ar from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Random House, 1933 175 · The Six-Day Night · Paul Morand · ss Open All Night by Paul Morand, Thomas Seltzer, 1923 190 · The Old Clown · Charles Baudelaire · vi Paris Spleen, New Directions, 1947 193 · The Wanton Troopers · Max Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine February 1954 214 · The French of Paris · Aldous Huxley · ex Harper, 1954 225 · Sleeping on the Ceiling · Elizabeth Bishop · pm North and South, Houghton Mifflin, 1946 226 · Feuille d’Album · Katherine Mansfield · ss The New Age September 20 1917 233 · The Beautiful Dorothea · Charles Baudelaire · es Paris Spleen, New Directions, 1947 236 · A Stranger Here · James Baldwin · ar (r)

The Damned ed. Daniel Talbot (Lion Library, September 1954, LL6, 35¢, 191pp, pb, an) 9 · Mateo Falcone · Prosper Mérimée · ss International Short Stories ed. & tr. Wm Patten, P.F. Collier's Sons, 1910 translated from the French. 21 · Previous Condition · James Baldwin · ss Commentary October 1948 37 · Soldier’s Home · Ernest Hemingway · ss In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway, Boni & Liveright, 1925 45 · A Painful Case · James Joyce · ss 1946 55 · Chums · Maxim Gorki · ss 1939 72 · Why Don’t You Look Where You’re Going · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss 1941 79 · Time Without End · Jim Thompson · ss 1939 89 · The Wish · Roald Dahl · ss Someone Like You by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1953 93 · The Runaway · Stefan Zweig · ss Kaleidoscope by Stefan Zweig, Cassell, 1934 translated from the German (“Episode am Genfer See”). 101 · That Only a Mother · Judith Merril · ss Astounding Science Fiction June 1948 111 · Where the Kings Die in Madrid · Alex Austin · ss 1950 125 · Last Visit · Christopher Lazare · ss Cross Section 1944 ed. Edward Seaver, L.B. Fischer, 1944 145 · Hands · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Masses March 1916 152 · Ball of Fat · Guy de Maupassant · nv Complete Works by Guy de Maupassant, St. Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“Boule de suif”, Les Soirées de Médan, 1880).