Review: "Out of This World" Showcases Versatile Queer Speculative Fiction
More crust than filling. Mostly air.
Summary
A book review excerpt praising Caitlín R. Lundoff's collection "Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories." Reviewer Heather Rose Jones highlights the collection's versatility, noting it spans genres from steampunk horror to hard-boiled alien invasion to magical police procedural, while maintaining a unified stylistic whole. The review emphasizes how each story draws from literary inspirations while subverting them.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledIf I had to sum up Lundoff's collection Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories in a single word (which would be a totally unfair thing to require me to do) it would be 'versatile.'
This volume touches base on a broad variety of genres and subgenres yet succeeds in being a unified stylistic whole.
There is everything from steampunk horror to hard-boiled alien invasion to magical police procedural, each story both drawing lovingly from its literary inspirations and turning them upside down.
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