Chris Fletcher and M-Brane SF’s anthology of queer science fiction, Things We Are Not, which includes a reprint of my planetary romance of the far future “Composition with Barbarian and Animal,” is scheduled to be published on 15 October. In the meanwhile, Chris has instituted a pre-order period, during which you can order the book directly from M-Brane at a discount in either print or PDF form—and get a free one-year, twelve-issue subscription to M-Brane to boot.

Why would you want the subscription? Well, besides a hefty sum of new science fiction every month (the latest issue contains thirteen stories over seventy-six pages) … issue #10, due 1 November, will contain “Jannicke’s Cat,” the first piece of A Boy’s History of the World to step forth into public view.