Mccombs Theodore - Uranians Stories - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: " I have been waiting for this sumptuous prismatic collection for literal years. Theodore Mc Combs is a poet of queer pasts presents and futures and Uranians is a formidable debut." - Carmen Maria Machado author of Her Body and Other Parties For readers of Ted Chiang and Karen Russell a genre - defying debut story collection that explores the essential role of queerness in this and every other possible world. At the end of the Victorian era a handful of forward - thinking public intellectuals advocated for societal tolerance of the " Uranian" - a man who loved other men - wondering if these "intermediate sexes" might in fact constitute totally different beings even hopeful guides toward the future. The six stories in Theodore Mc Comb's kaleidoscopic debut span several possible worlds teasing the boundaries between coexisting realities and taking up the question of queer difference from one surprising vantage after another. In " Towards a Theory of Alternative Lifestyles " a heartbroken young man stands in line at an exclusive underground gay nightclub promising visions of parallel lives across the multiverse. In " Ora et Labora " an adolescent novice at a Gothic monastery is forced to labor slavishly over math problems for the good of society entire. In Boston at the turn of a very different 20th century a domineering matron - cum - hangman feels that if you want things done right you'll just have to do them yourself. Finally in the titular novella " Uranians " an expedition of queer artists scientists and one transgender priest are on a lifelong interplanetary voyage that requires them to renegotiate their connections to a remote and hostile Earth while keeping their ship's biome alive in the harsh void of space.
Title: Uranians Stories
Author(s): Mccombs Theodore
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Barcode: 9781662601941
Pages: 216 Pages
Publication Date: 5/30/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction