Wilde Stories 2016: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction

Edited by Steve Berman.

Reality and memory; imagination and oblivion. Somewhere between these signposts can be found the events of Wilde Stories 2016: a future world has forbidden the songs of dancefloor divas but on one night the show returns as a cautionary exhibition; high school outcasts create a fictional scapegoat and then his body is found; and let us not forget that colonial Mars needs Oscar Wilde, but then, who doesn't?

Contents:

• "Imaginary Boys" by Paul Magrs
• "Wallflowers" by Jonathan Harper
• "Camp" by David Nickle
• "The Ticket Taker of Cenote Zací" by Benjamin Parzybok
• "The Duchess and the Ghost" by Richard Bowes
• "Lockbox" by E. Catherine Tobler
• "What Lasts" by Jared W. Cooper
• "He Came From a Place of Openness and Truth" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
• "The Language of Knives" by Haralambi Markov
• "To Die Dancing" by Sam J. Miller
• "Edited" by Rich Larson
• "Envious Moons" by Richard Scott Larson
• "Utrechtenaar" by Paul Evanby
• "To the Knife Cold Stars" by A. Merc Rustad
• "The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal" by Chaz Brenchley