Science fiction has often given marginalized people hope for the future. Just ask any women, black people, Japanese Americans, or Russians who watched Star Trek in the ’60s. Like, for instance, civil rights leader and proud Trekkie Martin Luther King, Jr. and his Trek-loving family.
It’s a hope that may also come to queer and trans people — and their family, friends, and allies — from reading the new sci-fi short story anthology Amplitudes: Stories Of Queer And Trans Futurity (paperback, Kindle).
In the following email interview, Amplitudes editor Lee Mandelo explains what this anthology is about, as well as how it came together.