"Gender is flexible and surprising in 12 stories of characters
transformed by the trappings of a different sex. ... E]ach one is
guaranteed to make the reader question the roles and qualities
often assigned to gender and sex. Jones... provides a strong start
for Circlet's new Gressive imprint of works that explore outside
the gender binary."-Publishers Weekly History, literature, and
mythology are replete with stories of those who, for one reason or
another, disguise themselves as the opposite gender, or are
transformed into that which they are not. From Bugs Bunny's
dress-wearing shenanigans, to Mulan's impersonation of her father,
from Tamora Pierce's Alanna of Trebond, to M*A*S*H's Klinger, this
collection's antecedents are everywhere. For centuries, readers
have thrilled to the tale of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One
Nights. Taken as a bride by a king notorious for executing each
wife after the marriage's consummation, Scheherazade spins stories
for him to avoid that fate. But what if someone was not as they
seemed? Through tales of magical transformation, cross-dressing,
and gender bending, our storytelling heroine postpones her death
even as she entertains and enlightens her audience. As editor
Michael M. Jones writes in his introduction, "For this collection,
I looked for a wide variety of things. First, all stories had to be
fantasy. High, low, dark, historical, romantic, urban,
mythical--just about anything goes as long as it has those
fantastic elements to it. Second, I wanted stories in which the
protagonist or other major characters are disguised or transformed,
or otherwise challenge traditional gender roles ... heroes and
villains, warriors and tricksters, drag queens and cross-dressers,
cisgendered, transgendered, and everything in-between. The authors
who responded knocked the requirements right out of the park." With
stories by: Tanith Lee Sarah Rees Brennan Shanna Germain Alma
Alexander C.S. MacCath Paolo Chikiamco Tiffany Trent Melissa Mead
Aliette de Bodard Lyn C.A. Gardner Sunny Moraine David Sklar
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