Book cover for Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (Portable Edition) by Ryka Aoki, Jeanne Thornton and Imogen Binnie

Meanwhile, Elsewhere

Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (Portable Edition)

2025 Released
360 Pages
6-9 Hours
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Littlepuss PressISBN 9781964322001
Now cheaper and smaller, the original Stonewall Award-winning collection of trans sci-fi and fantasy is back in print, with a new 2024 afterword from the editors.

Winner of the 2018 ALA Stonewall Book Award's Barbara Gittings Literature Award - Finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Anthology - An SPD #1 Fiction Bestseller

In 2017, Meanwhile, Elsewhere, a large, strange, and devastatingly touching anthology of science fiction and fantasy from transgender authors was released onto the world. The collection received rave acclaim and won the ALA Stonewall Book Award. When its original publisher went out of business, the book fell out of print, and LittlePuss Press is now pleased to bring this title back to life for a new audience of readers.

What is Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers? It is the #1 post-reality generation device approved for home use. It will prepare you to travel from multiverse to multiverse. No experience is required! Choose from twenty-five preset post-realities! Rejoice at obstacles unquestionably bested and conflicts efficiently resolved. Bring denouement to your drama with THE FOOLPROOF AUGMENTATION DEVICE FOR OUR CONTEMPORARY UTOPIA.

Ryka Aoki

RYKA AOKI (she/her) is a poet, composer, teacher, and novelist. Her latest novel, Light From Uncommon Stars, was an Alex, SCKA, and Otherwise Award winner, and was also a finalist for the Hugo, Locus, and Ignyte Awards.

Ryka is a two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist for her collections Seasonal Velocities, and Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul, and her first novel, He Mele a Hilo, was callled one of the "10 Best Books Set in Hawaii" by Bookriot. She has been recognized by the California State Senate for “extraordinary commitment to the visibility and well-being of Transgender people,” and her work has appeared or been recognized in publications including Vogue, Elle, Bustle, Autostraddle, PopSugar, and Buzzfeed, as well as the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. She was also honored to work with the American Association of Hiroshima Nagasaki A-Bomb Survivors, where two of her compositions were adopted as the organization’s “songs of peace.”

She has an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University, and is currently a professor of English at Santa Monica College.

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Jeanne Thornton

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Imogen Binnie

Imogen
Binnie
is the author of the novel Nevada, which won the Betty Berzon
Emerging Writer Award and was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for
Transgender Fiction. A writer for several television shows and a former
columnist for Maximum Rocknroll, she lives in Vermont with her family.

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