Kai Ashante Wilson

Wilde Stories 2014: the Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction Kai Ashante Wilson

Oscar Wilde said: ''I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.'' Thankfully, the authors featured in Wilde Stories 2014 possess the ability to create men on the page that love and risk and suffer and mourn, deeds that deserve telling despite the frailties of fictional flesh. Once more editor Steve Berman has collected a variety of stories that range from the fantastical to the eerie to surreal-yet all possess the spark of imagination that is what brings storytelling the closest to a divine act of wonder an individual can perform. Authors in this volume: Matthew Cheney, John Chu (his story ''The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere'' is a finalist for the Hugo Award), R. W. Clinger, Sean Eads, Eli Easton, Casey Hannan, Clayton Littlewood, Sam J. Miller (his story, ''57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides,'' won the Shirley Jackson Award!), J. E. Robinson, Damon Shaw, Cory Skerry, Robert Smith, Nghi Vo, and Kai Ashante Wilson.