We're Here : The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022

We’re Here 2022 is edited by Naomi Kanakia & series editor Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews. An 8” x 5” book. 274 pages. Published October 17th, 2023.

We’re Here 2022 includes the following stories:

• “We'll Always Have Enceladus” by Amy Nagopaleen (Fusion Fragment)

• “The Planned Obsolescence of the Human Body” by Anja Hendrikse Liu (Fusion Fragment)

• “Blades, Stones, and the Weight of Centuries” by Izzy Wasserstein (All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From)

• “Sheri, At This Very Moment” by Bianca Sayan (Apex)

• “Four Glass Cubes (Item Description)” by Bogi Takács (Baffling)

• “15 Eulogies Scribbled Inside a Hello Kitty Notebook” by Carlie St. George (You Fed Us to the Roses)

• “B-ing” by Crystal Odelle (Strange Horizons)

• “Slow Communication” by Dominique S. Dickey (Fantasy)

• “Dick Pig” by Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare)

• “Beginnings” by Kristina Ten (Fantasy)

• “Drowning Songs” by M. S. Dean (Anathema)

• “My Dad Bought a Space Shuttle” by M. Shaw (Voyage YA Journal)

• “Falling to Pieces” by Rebecca Cuthbert (Defunkt)

• “Follow, Follow” by RJ Mustafa (Lolwe)

• “A Girl Explodes” by Ruth Joffre (Three-Lobed Burning Eye)

• “The Halved World” by Samir Sirk Morató (Strange Weeds: A Charity Anthology)

• “Normalization” by Xauri’EL Zwaan (Cossmass Infinities)

• “Icariana” by Wen-yi Lee (Baffling)

• “The Chavrusa” by Y.M. Resnik (Worlds of Possibility)

Our incredible cover is by Pau Edrosa. Cover design by dave ring.

“Kanakia (We Are Totally Normal) and series editor Payseur bolster Neon Hemlock’s reputation as a champion of queer speculative fiction with these 19 praiseworthy shorts…The message that queer people are here and will continue to be here in all possible futures resounds.”
—Publishers Weekly