A review by 8bitlapras
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2015: Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue, by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Geoff Ryman, Susan Jane Bigelow, Chaz Brenchley, John Chu, Nicasio Andres Reed, Amal El-Mohtar, Nalo Hopkinson, Seanan McGuire, R.B. Lemberg
3.0
Fiction
Influence Isolated, Make Peace by John Chu: 2.75/5
Emergency Repair by Kate M. Galey: 4/5
Trickier With Each Translation by Bonnie Jo Stufflebaum: 4.25/5
The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal by Chaz Brenchley: 1/5
The Tip of the Tongue by Felicia Davin: 4.5/5
How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War by Rose Lemberg: 3.5/5
Plant Children by Jessica Yang: 4.75/5
Nothing is Pixels Here by K. M. Szpara: 4.25/5
Madeleine by Amal El-Mohtar: 5/5
Two by Two by Tim Susman: 5/5
Die, Sophie, Die by Susan Jane Bigelow: 2/5
Black Holes by RJ Edwards: 3/5
Red Run by AMJ Hudson: 3.5/5
CyberFruit Swamp by Raven Kaldera: 3/5
The Sound of His Wings by Rand B. Lee: 5/5
O Happy Day! by Geoff Ryman: 1/5
Flash Fiction
Melioration by E. Saxey: 1/5
Rubbing is Racing by Charles Payseur: 2/5
Helping Hand by Claudine Griggs: 3/5
The Lamb Chops by Stephen Cox: 2.75/5
Mama by Eliza Gauger: 3/5
Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind by Erica L. Satifka: 5/5
A Brief History of Whaling with Remarks Upon Ancient Practices by Gabby Reed: 4/5
Nothing Goes to Waste by Shannon Peavey: 3/5
In the Dawns Between Hours by Sarah Pinsker: 5/5
Increasing Police Visibility by Bogi Takács: 3/5
Letter From an Artist to a Thousand Future Versions of Her Wife by JY Yang: 5/5
Non-fiction and Personal Essays
Too many and too much repeated discourse to give a rating to all of them, but the most memorable and affirming to me personally were Diversity in a Ghetto: The Marginalization of Modern Activism in Traditional Fandom by Pablo Miguel Alberto Vazquez, Science Fiction Failed Me by Cory Skerry, 1984 in 1980 by Lee Thomas, Spark by Mark Oshiro, All That Glitters by Jill Seidenstein, When We're Not There, We're Not Here by Jerome Stueart, Here's How It Goes by Alyssa Wong, and The First Rule I Learned About Writing Queer Characters in Science Fiction by Haralambi Markov.
Average rating: 3.45/5, rounded up to a 3.5/5.
Influence Isolated, Make Peace by John Chu: 2.75/5
Emergency Repair by Kate M. Galey: 4/5
Trickier With Each Translation by Bonnie Jo Stufflebaum: 4.25/5
The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal by Chaz Brenchley: 1/5
The Tip of the Tongue by Felicia Davin: 4.5/5
How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War by Rose Lemberg: 3.5/5
Plant Children by Jessica Yang: 4.75/5
Nothing is Pixels Here by K. M. Szpara: 4.25/5
Madeleine by Amal El-Mohtar: 5/5
Two by Two by Tim Susman: 5/5
Die, Sophie, Die by Susan Jane Bigelow: 2/5
Black Holes by RJ Edwards: 3/5
Red Run by AMJ Hudson: 3.5/5
CyberFruit Swamp by Raven Kaldera: 3/5
The Sound of His Wings by Rand B. Lee: 5/5
O Happy Day! by Geoff Ryman: 1/5
Flash Fiction
Melioration by E. Saxey: 1/5
Rubbing is Racing by Charles Payseur: 2/5
Helping Hand by Claudine Griggs: 3/5
The Lamb Chops by Stephen Cox: 2.75/5
Mama by Eliza Gauger: 3/5
Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind by Erica L. Satifka: 5/5
A Brief History of Whaling with Remarks Upon Ancient Practices by Gabby Reed: 4/5
Nothing Goes to Waste by Shannon Peavey: 3/5
In the Dawns Between Hours by Sarah Pinsker: 5/5
Increasing Police Visibility by Bogi Takács: 3/5
Letter From an Artist to a Thousand Future Versions of Her Wife by JY Yang: 5/5
Non-fiction and Personal Essays
Too many and too much repeated discourse to give a rating to all of them, but the most memorable and affirming to me personally were Diversity in a Ghetto: The Marginalization of Modern Activism in Traditional Fandom by Pablo Miguel Alberto Vazquez, Science Fiction Failed Me by Cory Skerry, 1984 in 1980 by Lee Thomas, Spark by Mark Oshiro, All That Glitters by Jill Seidenstein, When We're Not There, We're Not Here by Jerome Stueart, Here's How It Goes by Alyssa Wong, and The First Rule I Learned About Writing Queer Characters in Science Fiction by Haralambi Markov.
Average rating: 3.45/5, rounded up to a 3.5/5.