The Trans Space Octopus Congregation

By Bogi Takács

This new collection from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author and editor of Transcendent 2  offers plenty of thrills—and bonus tentacles—for readers of LGBTQ-focused speculative literature.  The stories range from magical space opera to cheerful body horror and historical fantasy, always with a sense of hope amid adversity.  The mystical and magical merge with the scientific and technological: sacred texts gain new interpretations in the light of nuclear physics, and people save a forest with computer science.  Cephalopods build alliances and research their past, Jewish shapeshifters speak to extraterrestrial planetminds, and Hungarian horse archers summon ancient terrors.