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I was particularly excited for this anthology not for the premise (I found the second volume to be... hit or miss, to say the least), but for the authors I recognized would be in here.Yoon Ha Lee's "Chameleon Gloves" will probably only make sense to a reader who has read Nine Fox Gambit or other shorts from the Hexarchate universe, but it was a favorite of mine.Rivers Solomon and S. Qiouyi Lu will always lead me to pick up an anthology– and it was well worth it here.The breakout surprise that de...
These were, almost without exception, very solid-to-excellent stories. There were only a couple that were good but I almost kind of wish I hadn't read since they were more horrific than expected.
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This was hit and miss. Some of the stories (Death You Deserve, Heat Death of Western Human Arrogance, Feed, Hello World, The Heavy Things and The Heart's Cartographer) were an absolute pleasure to read. Most others were unremarkable. I wish trans-men were better represented, only one or two stories feature such characters, the rest are mostly trans-women or non-binary. Overall, I liked the collection enough to consider getting the past and future installments too, but not enough to look up indiv...
First of all I love this cover! This collection has a wide range of subgenres and tones, from vampires to magical goats. It introduced me to quite a few authors unknown to me. The Charlie Jane Anders story was a punch to the gut.
I thought "The Worldless" by Indrapramit Das was going to be the perfect last story of the anthology, because it's about leaving a place that holds no hope or future, even when you have little assurance of finding a home on the other side. But then "The Heart's Cartography" by Susan Bigelow came along, a story about choosing to stay where you are, knowing you can build a future. "We survive," the main character learns. What an incredibly powerful line. Kudos to the editor for the juxtaposition o...
I rarely give multi-author anthologies 5 out of 5, but this one earned it. The stories within range from tales where a character just happens to be trans or genderfluid in the context of a wider stories, to tales where the character’s gender is crucial to the plot. Some trans characters are much as we see them in society now, whereas others are members of alien races (or other groups) that would be new to us.The collection includes an up-front section of content notes so you can skip the stories...
I have to admit that I didn't like some of the short stories in this, but I really loved Shweta Narayan's, R.L. Lemberg's, Ada Hoffmann's, and Susan Jane Bigelow's contributions.
Too many of these stories were way too dark and/or depressing. The last one was the only one I really loved.
I don’t really keep up with what’s going on in SFF or trans literature (or intersections thereof), so I appreciate the work done by Lethe Press and editor Bogi Takács even more. It feels great to be able to dive into a selection of highlights from the field.“Transcendent 3” casts the net fairly widely in terms of genre and amount of trans content. Science fiction, fantasy, and horror are represented fairly evenly and while I gravitated more towards the stories that placed a particular focus on v...
A wonderful compilation with a wide range of characters, topics, and tones. From the deeply haunting to the humorous, the stories are compelling.
Tässä oli upeita tarinoita! Sellaisia, joista sai uusia näkökulmia, ja sellaisia, joissa jokin oma juttu oli ekaa kertaa kirjoitettuna. Oon niin iloinen tästä kirjasta. Monet näistä jäi elämään mun mieleen.
Transcendent 3 was a well produced and exciting anthology. I was very glad to see the presence of an anthology of transgender science fiction and fantasy and hope that this represents a broader change in the representation of trans people in the world of speculative fiction. In terms of flow, I thought it moved nicely from story to story, although I read it slowly enough that I was much more concerned with the individual stories than I was with the arc of the book as a whole. I really appreciate...
Fiction T7722 2018
Actual rating 4.5 stars.
A great collection of trans SFF! I did find myself personally having a difficult time with this one, since I’m really averse to hard/high SFF and many of these stories were emotionally quite destructive. For that reason, I had to put it down a few times and read it more slowly. However, neither of these are negatives in any objective sense, and so the reason I went for 4 stars is solely due to some (I feel) technical mishaps—some stories felt more like near-final drafts.The collection got off to...
